EarthFix Snippets
A songbird called the streaked horned lark has a curious propensity for risky neighborhoods such as airports, Army training fields, and dredge spoil dumping sites. The bird is being considered for listing as an endangered species. | credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
It takes two hours from Anchorage to fly to Bethel and another 90 minutes in a smaller plane that stops in villages on the way, to reach Newtok. Photograph: Richard Sprenger
This is from the Guardian’s well-done interactive story about the plight of climate refugees from Newtok and other Alaskan villages in danger.
Congrats to winner of our ‘Northwest Spring in Color’ photo contest David James. His winning photo: “Annabella smelling the Balsam.”
Check out all the entries - some vivid, some subtle, all very Pacific Northwest and spring-y!
The EPA wants to hear from the public about their plan to clean up Seattle’s Duwamish superfund site.
Seastars are so bizarre. These kind aren’t really found in our cold Northwest waters.
Cushion Seastars (Culcita novaeguineae)
family Oreasteridae
It has short arms and an inflated appearance and resembles a pentagonal pincushion. It is variable in colour and can be found in tropical warm waters in the Indo-Pacific… (Wikipedia)
(photos: T - C. Hwa; M - WildSingapore; B - Samuel Chow)
(via somuchscience)
- Which Fish Get To Recolonize After Elwha’s Dams Are Gone?
- Elwha River: Recovery Proceeds Despite Sediment Setbacks
- Anti-Logging Protesters: ‘We Are Not Terrorists’
- Coal Company Drops Plans For Export Terminal On Columbia
- No New Wind Farm Construction In PNW This Year
- Why It’s Getting Harder To Deal With Droughts And Floods
- What A Golf Course Could Mean For Washington’s Groundwater
- Klamath Basin Warned Drought Could Trigger Irrigation Shutoffs
- Ore. Bill Requires Wave Energy Companies To Remove Equipment
- More Trapping Of Sea Lions Feeding On Columbia Chinook
Infographic from Sunlight Foundation shows the campaign spending from fossil fuel industry juxtaposed against climate policy and CO2 concentrations.
Policy stalls as campaign spending by fossil fuel industries and greenhouse gases rise to historic levels.
More: http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/2013/whats-wrong-picture-greenhouse-gas-all-time-high/
Geek out on our videos documenting the Elwha River restoration and dam removal process.
