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| Roseate Spoonbills / Photo by Jonathan Milak (USFWS) |
- An ornithologist is working on a smartphone app that will identify recorded birdsong to species.
- There is a significant oil spill underway in New Zealand from a cargo ship that ran aground and is threatening to break up. At least 350 tonnes of heavy fuel oil have spilled from the ship so far. Some seabirds are in danger from the spill; here is an article on how rescuers clean penguins. Here are more images from the spill.
- Two endangered Whooping Cranes were shot and killed in Louisiana.
- Thanks to color banding, there is now a record of a Piping Plover staying unusually long at a breeding site after a failed nesting attempt.
- Round Robin: 10 Great Books on Birds: A Big Year Reading List
- BirdWatching Field of View: A 'theoretical birder' describes the art and science of photographing 50 birds' nests
- Bug Girl's Blog: Bed bugs, the CDC, and insecticides
- Laelaps: The Giant, Prehistoric Squid That Ate Common Sense
- Birding is Fun!: Blue Circler
- Coffee and Conservation: Research: Borer-eating warblers may need nearby forests
- The Drinking Bird: Birder Jargon Project: Pish off
- The global of supply of coffee is threatened by climate change, which is changing rainfall patterns and encouraging pest infestations in coffee-growing regions.
- Polar bears are being harmed by the environmental toxins that accumulate in the polar region.
- Scientists are considering ways in which North American forests might absorb more carbon in the future.
- Australia is implementing carbon pricing in the face of a major public relations campaign against the policy. Carbon pricing will take effect next July.
- Environmental groups are suing the Obama administration over its refusal to implement the EPA's new ozone rules.
- Worldwide meat consumption jumped 20% in the last decade, with effects on land use and greenhouse gas emissions.
- A few recent articles made attempts to define and quantify "green jobs."
- A British expedition is attempting to explore Antarctica's Lake Ellsworth, which lies underneath a thick sheet of ice, in hopes of gaining clues about past climates and life forms that can survive extreme conditions.
- Here is a gallery of snail images.
