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from a Mother Jones reprint of a Guardian article at <http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/humans-destorying-planet-earth&gt; ENVIRONMENT→ Climate Change, Climate Desk, Top Stories We’re Destroying the Planet in Ways That Are Even Worse Than Global Warming 4 ways humans are endangering life on Earth —By … Continue reading →

Rona Kobell, writing in the current edition of The Bay Journal <http://www.bayjournal.com/article/new_practices_mulled_to_thwart_bird_die_offs_at_poplar_island?utm_source=Chesapeake+Bay+News&utm_campaign=50ec4a931f-Chesapeake_Bay_News4_23_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_71ced15df1-50ec4a931f-61676821&gt;, describes the multiple secondary problems that arise from the successful “restoration” of Poplar Island in the middle Chesapeake. These issues are not trivial, easily foretold, or cost-free to … Continue reading →

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There’s an on-line, 25-question test you can take on the NY Times web site that will show where you’re from . . . . The link is also circulating on Facebook these days. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html Here’s my result — Red is … Continue reading →

Photo by one of my favorite photographers — Emily Carter Mitchell — of the Anne Arundel Bird Club (you can follow her on Facebook — also publishes stuff under the name Bella Remy), who took up birding and wildlife photography … Continue reading →

Ann Sutton of Jamaica (contact details at the bottom) called our attention on the Birds Caribbean e-mail group this article from the RESEARCH website of Cambridge University (UK) <http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/does-it-help-conservation-to-put-a-price-on-nature&gt;. Readers may be reminded of the parallels between this drawback of … Continue reading →

Small Island Developing States

From the Weather Underground weather site: <http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2852&cm_ven=tw-jm&gt; Typhoon Nuri Poised to Become an Alaskan Super Storm; TD Vance Hits Mexico By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 4:22 PM GMT on November 05, 2014 Share this Blog Short Link Full Link 1 … Continue reading →

The story linked below, from the [Chesapeake] Bay Journal, is an excellent discussion of how exports of oysters from the Chesapeake to Louisiana is an example of the rapid changes that can take place (and incidentally overtake resource managers and … Continue reading →

from the excellent IUU Fishing Blog at http://houseofocean.org/iuu-fishing-blog/ == probably not a problem in the Caribbean, eh? AUGUST 4, 2014 Illegal Fishing Control: Why Europe Needs a Common Software Platform Council Regulation 1005 / 2008 (the IUU Regulation) is a … Continue reading →