U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Solicits Public Input on Proposed Rule and Environmental Impact Statement for Migratory Bird Treaty Act: draconym: vampireapologist: vampireapologist: zooophagous: strangebiology: The Migratory Bird Treaty Act was passed in 1818 and makes it illegal for people in the US to “take,” which means killing, injuring, or possessing, migratory birds in most circumstances. […]

Gaia-hypothesis propounder James Lovelock has Greenpeace, and others, in a tizzy over his recommendation that environmentalists need to get over their concerns about nuclear power, since he believes it offers the only hope of averting catastrophic climate change: ‘Only nuclear power can now halt global warming’.

Much ruckus being kicked up regarding the New York Times’ article, yesterday, that blew the whistle on the White House having so watered down the section on global warming in the EPA’s upcoming big-ass report on the state of the environment that it was eventually decided to just remove that section altogether: Report by the […]

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The Nature You See in Documentaries Is Beautiful and False: jenniferrpovey: probablyasocialecologist: By consistently presenting nature as an untouched wilderness, many nature documentaries mislead viewers into thinking that there are lots of untouched wildernesses left. I certainly thought there were, before I became an environmental journalist. This misapprehension then prompts people to build their environmental […]

bukbot: ornithomancie: I’ve been working on some memes for class. Federal Government Moves to Gut America’s Most Important Bird Law (Audubon) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Solicits Public Input on Proposed Rule and Environmental Impact Statement for Migratory Bird Treaty Act (accepting comments until March 19, 2020) Until March. Reposted from https://lies.tumblr.com/post/190981904001.

Another Captain For the Planet – League of Conservation Voters: a-solitary-sea-rover: Captain Donald Lawson: Growing up in Baltimore, I didn’t spend as much time near the water as you might think for living in a coastal community. But, when I was nine I had the opportunity to go sailing with the Living Classroom Foundation’s Lady […]

milesfromwingstotail: seriously though this is amazing, and narrating it Animal Planet style would be a really fun way to do a movie like Zootopia. I had a version of this not that long ago. I was watching Tha Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and happened to accidentally invoke the 5.1 sound mode even though I don’t […]

On a mission to set an example >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News: a-solitary-sea-rover: “When we started this campaign, we knew we wanted to bring attention to important ocean health issues such as plastic pollution and climate change,” said Charlie Enright, Skipper, Vestas 11th Hour Racing. “I’m proud to say that not only did we raise awareness […]

ncascades: Red breasted sapsuckers have been seen in abundance up at the Environmental Learning Center, most likely due to the colder weather we have been having. 📸: grad student @wingtrip http://ift.tt/2HRVdfd Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/172430058746.

“Meanwhile, in Alaska, the change in administrations in Washington had a more direct impact. In 2014, the EPA, which was still under the management of people who believe that the mission of an environmental protection administration is to, you know, protect the environment, virtually stopped the construction of the Pebble Mine. There have been several […]

virovac: silentflightfeathers: allosauroid: Bristol Bay, home to half the world’s Sockeye salmon population, is about to be destroyed. “For more than 15 years, Northern Dynasty Minerals, a Canadian mining company, has sought to build a gold and copper mine in Bristol Bay. And this spring, the Trump administration took swift action to make that prospect […]

wilsonlibunc: April 22, 2017, marks the 47th annual celebration of Earth Day. Earth Day came about largely thanks to the environmental movement of the mid-twentieth century, which gained momentum through the work of scientists like Rachel Carson. In her 1962 book Silent Spring, Carson analyzed the harmful effects of pesticides, including the now-notorious DDT, on […]

carrioncoyote: birdandmoon: A couple of days ago, I did something I’ve always wanted to do: I visited the real life Watership Down. When I was a little kid, I won a copy of this book. I was hooked right away and I re-read it every year. I know many people saw the Watership Down animated […]

“The OMB outline for the Commerce Department for fiscal 2018 proposed sharp reductions in specific areas within NOAA such as spending on education, grants and research. NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research would lose $126 million, or 26 percent, of the funds it has under the current budget. Its satellite data division would lose […]

actionfriday: It’s been a tough week for many of us, who have found our fears about the new administration confirmed. I know that I’ve felt overwhelmed, downtrodden, and discouraged many times in the past week. But tomorrow I’m going to volunteer training for an organization I care a lot about. I’m new to volunteering, as […]

Sukakpak Mountain, BLM Alaska, photo by Bob Wick, BLM Palsas at the base of Sukakpak Mountain, BLM Alaska, photo by Karen Deatherage, BLM Palsas at the base of Sukakpak Mountain, BLM Alaska, photo by Karen Deatherage, BLM Sukakpak Mountain, BLM Alaska, photo by Bob Wick, BLM mypubliclands: Hit the Road with #mypubliclandsroadtrip 2016 –  Week […]

dendroica: Ravens learn best from their affiliates One of the benefits of living together is gaining new information from group members. Once a group member starts displaying a new behavior, it frequently spreads to the rest of the group. In a study on ravens, Cognitive Biologists from the University of Vienna together with the Princeton […]

ehmeegee: A few weeks ago I was in a fabric store with my Mom and my sister Serri, and saw this random, pleasant cross stitch pattern of some marine invertebrates with the hokey cursive text Take time stitched into the empty upper right hand corner. Like, hang this in your bathroom and gaze at the calming […]

liberalsarecool: Paul Krugman: “We’re looking at a [Republican] party that has turned its back on science at a time when doing so puts the very future of civilization at risk. That’s the truth, and it needs to be faced head-on.” Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker: “The best that can be hoped for during the […]