In an incredibly great piece of public health news, researchers are getting very close to developing a vaccination against malaria. The first study showed the risk of malaria cut in half across seven African nations. Malaria is an enormous killer across the developing world. The...
environment
A deadly salmon virus is likely to decimate wild stocks in coming decades. This highly contagious virus, which developed in the salmon farms of Norway, has infected British Columbia wild.
Elisabeth Rosenthal's good piece in the Times on why climate change has fallen off the radar screen has received a couple of interesting follow-up posts, including from Plumer. He points.
As if the mass slaughter of pelicans last week wasn't bad enough, there have been a disturbing number of whooping crane shooting this year. Again, destructive human behavior is why I have very little hope for the future viability of most species, especially birds.
Because people do terrible, terrible things to animals. This is about as bad as I've ever heard. Via Ken Cole
It seems so. Essentially, the easy to reach coal seams are disappearing, creating the necessity for extremely destructive methods like mountaintop removal in order to reach what is left. With.
I would be remiss to not mention the death of the great African environmentalist, feminist, and activst Wangari Maathai. The Kenyan activist began her activist career by figuring out that paying women to plant trees would both provide employment for women and protect the land....
This article on bottlenose attacking and killing porpoises in really brutal ways is weird enough. But it also turns out that dolphins' "crimes" against porpoises are kind of sexual in.
Wow: A study published in 2009 — with Matthew Salzer of the Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona as the lead author — found bristlecone ring-growth rates.
As Michael Lipsky points out, wilderness is a great thing, but it's not something devoid of human influence. In fact, these are spaces that are heavily managed by humans and protected by legislation that must be enforced by an activist government. In fact, wilderness is...
Is the current Congress the worst ever for environmental issues? Almost certainly, though you could probably say the same thing for many issues. Worst Congress ever? There's a lot of.
An exchange on the conservation movement, from the Ladies Home Journal, November 1911: THE REQUEST FROM THE MOTHER: I wonder if you ever realize, you who live and move in.