http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 07:00:26 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:00:26 [div class=excerpt]Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Sept 16, 2009 - Malaysian police said Wednesday they had dismantled blockades constructed in the Borneo jungles by Penan tribespeople protesting against logging and plantations on their ancestral land.

In a separate move police also arrested 17 people, inclu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2526 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:46:30 [div class=excerpt]ENVIRONMENT groups are calling for a permanent ban on ''deadly'' artificial fishing devices used to attract huge tuna catches in the Pacific after scientific reports found that stocks of bigeye tuna are collapsing.

Greenpeace activists aboard the [i]Esperanza[/i] confiscated s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2525 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:44:40 [div class=excerpt]Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Carlton Dufrechou can fly 10 minutes from New Orleans and be over the open waters of the Mississippi Sound. Two decades earlier, before erosion took its toll, he would have looked down on lush wetlands.

The destruction accelerated four years ago last mo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2524 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:42:37 Source: [b]Sydney Morning Herald[/b]

[div class=excerpt]LEAKED internal emails have revealed a massive cover-up by the British oil trader Trafigura, in one of the worst pollution disasters in recent history.

The emails obtained by The Guardian prove that Trafigura, which abruptly announced an of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2523 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:43:05 [div class=excerpt]Measures to protect dwindling stocks of bluefin tuna fish in the Mediterranean have failed to curb illegal fishing practices, leaked papers show.

The Guardian has been passed a confidential report of a French navy inspection of the tuna fishery, which shows how fishing boats in... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2522 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:47:25 [div class=excerpt]Atlanta (September 8, 2009) —Tornadoes that occur from hurricanes moving inland from the Gulf Coast are increasing in frequency, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This increase seems to reflect the increase in size and frequency among large hurricane... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2521 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:34:14 [div class=excerpt]A small group of crowned sifaka lemurs ([i]Propithecus coronatus[/i]) have been located in the corridor d’Amboloando-Dabolava, Miandrivazo district-Madagascar, but are immediately threatened with local extinction. The small, fragmented, and isolated forest shelters a group of only... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2520 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:28:59 [div class=excerpt]Well folks, it looks like this is it for the Christmas Island pipistrelle bat ([i]Pipistrellus murrayi[/i]). This critically endangered species of microbat now appears to be doomed to impending extinction as last-gasp efforts to capture the few remaining bats and place them in a c... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2519 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:58:46 [div class=excerpt]TUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories -- Caught between rising seas and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of Tuktoyaktuk are doing what anyone would do on this windy Arctic coastline. They’re building windmills.

That’s wind-power turbines, to be exact — a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2518 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:19:18 [div class=excerpt]A disturbing incident in Eket, Nigeria reveals that unsuspecting roadside barbecue patrons may have been eating vulture meat instead of chicken.

Hungry buyers tempted by the scrumptious sizzle of meat cooking over a charcoal fire may want to think twice before buying a snack f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2517 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:15:44 [div class=excerpt]Iraq has one of the largest oil reserves in the world, but it's running out of another valuable commodity: water.

Iraq's ancient name, Mesopotamia, means the land between two rivers: the Tigris and the Euphrates, which flow into Iraq from Turkey and Syria. But water is now so l... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2516 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:28:20 [b]Graph of the Day: 2000-Year Reconstruction of Arctic Temperatures[/b]
http://desdemonadespair.blogspot.com/2009/09/graph-of-day-2000-year-reconstruction.html... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2515 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:26:57 [div class=excerpt]SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The American West is losing its autumn colors as global warming begins to bite and there is far more at stake than iconic scenery.

Aspen, the white-barked trees with golden leaves that gave their name to the famed Colorado ski resort, have been dying o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2514 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:25:46 [div class=excerpt]Just a few hundred years ago, the world's rivers and lakes teemed with gigantic fish. Freshwater fish were so plentiful that they were used to feed farm animals and fishermen found it hard not to make a catch, according to a new review of historical accounts. ...

"When you look... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2513 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:59:37 [div class=excerpt]Conservationists monitoring the animals' annual migration into Biscay said the second largest whale on the planet had not appeared in large numbers this summer.

While small numbers of fin whales arrived in the Bay as usual in May in the first phase of the migration, numbers tu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2512 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:57:52 [div class=excerpt]As TakePart reported earlier this week, Richard O’Barry is currently in Taiji, Japan with European and Japanese journalists in anticipation of the annual dolphin slaughter that usually takes place the first week of September.

Today is September 1st, the first day of the dolphi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2511 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:03:51 [div class=excerpt]Gordon Hamilton, a Scottish-born glaciologist from the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute, is packing up equipment at his base camp in Tasiilaq, a tiny, remote east coast settlement only accessible by helicopter and where huskies howl all night. …

"When we arrived ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2510 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:56:04 [div class=excerpt]Starting tomorrow, the gray wolf is about to be hunted for the first time in decades. The Obama administration removed the wolves from the endangered species list last March. And unless a federal judge decides to halt the hunt and reopen the question of whether the species is thre... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2509 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:27:38 [div class=excerpt]Oil is leaking from an offshore drilling rig in the Timor Sea near Australia's Northwest coast. Authorities say it will be weeks before the leak is plugged: they are awaiting the arrival of a drilling rig from Singapore to plug the leak.

"This is a potential disaster for turtl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2508 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:48:01 [div class=excerpt]Tsavo West National Park, Kenya (AFP) Aug 30, 2009 - Kenya's persistent and bruising drought is having a serious impact on the country's wildlife, one of its main tourist attractions, obliging the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to feed hippos to keep them alive.

In Tsavo West nat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2507 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:46:14 [div class=excerpt]Lukla, Nepal (AFP) Aug 30, 2009 - Over two decades, Funuru Sherpa has watched the lake above his native village of Dengboche in Nepal's Himalayas grow, as the glacier that feeds it melts.

The 29-year-old, who runs a busy Internet cafe for tourists visiting the Everest region, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2506 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:45:10 [div class=excerpt]Urban growth is quickly driving one of the world's most bizarre creatures into extinction. According to a new study, the axolotl ([i]Ambystoma mexicanum[/i]), a Mexican amphibian that never metamorphoses past its larval stage, has seen a 90 percent population drop in the last four... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2505 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:21:29 [div class=excerpt]The highest level of marlin bycatch in the U.S. is taken by U.S. pelagic longline vessels in the Gulf of Mexico targeting yellowfin tuna. According to NOAA observer data, the bycatch of documented discarded billfish in the Gulf in 2007 and 2008 included 1031 billfish caught, with ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2504 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:25:30 [div class=excerpt]The Madagascar pochard, the world's rarest duck, was already thought to be extinct once. After a last sighting in 1991 the species was thought to have vanished until nine adults and four hatchlings were discovered in 2006. However, conservationists have begun to fear that the spec... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2503 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:59:56 [div class=excerpt]Bhattegaun, Nepal (AFP) Aug 28, 2009 - Three years ago Naina Shahi's husband left their small village in rural Nepal to seek work in neighbouring India, leaving her to bring up their three children alone.

The dry winters and unpredictable monsoons Nepal has experienced in recen... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Barrett808/2502 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:45:40