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| Yellow-crowned Night Herons / USFWS Photo |
- A reporter for the Star-Ledger participated in the Raritan Estuary CBC and was part of the team that covered the Edgeboro Landfill.
- Salvage logging in the lands scorched by the Rim Fire may put Black-backed Woodpeckers at risk since they forage in recently-burned areas.
- A birder is doing a North American big year by bicycle.
- A new study seeks to identify which fingers birds have.
- Climate change is forcing penguins to breed on higher ground, and in some cases they must climb 100-foot ice walls to do so.
- A Red-necked Phalarope banded in the UK made a 16,000-mile round trip on its migration, which crossed South America to its wintering areas in the Pacific Ocean.
- Snowy Owls have been sighted at all three DC-area airports.
- Several bird conservation groups are suing to block a proposed wind farm in Lake Erie.
- The Bald Eagle deaths in Utah were caused by West Nile Virus.
- 10,000 Birds: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction
- Laelaps: Feathery Fossil Offers Insights into the Flight and Diet of an Early Bird
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Sex and the Birds: 11. Sex-role reversal and Greater Painted-snipe
- View from the Cape: My little chickadee!
- mocosocoBirds: Silence of the Loon in Franklin Twp., Jan. 8, 2014
- Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens: It is Cold Outside. Where did all the Butterflies Go?
- Digital Photography School: Manipulating Natural Light in Wildlife Photography
- China has set new air pollution goals to reduce its serious problems with smog.
- Meanwhile, the EPA has finally published its first regulation of carbon dioxide emissions.
- Much of North America spent the last week locked into some seriously cold weather. Australia had the opposite problem. (49°C is about 120°F.)
- One possible benefit to the cold snap is that it may kill many of the emerald ash borers that have become a problem in the Midwest and Northeast.
- If 60 Minutes wanted to do serious reporting on problems with renewable energy, they could have done a much better job by asking different questions.
- The shrimp season in the Gulf of Maine is closed this year because the fishery is depleted; shrimp have shifted their range northwards in response to climate change.
- The sea level is rising faster along the Jersey Shore than elsewhere in the world, partly due to subsidence.
- California has had very little snow this winter, which bodes ill for its water supply. The Colorado River is also well below its 20th-century levels, which may have been an unusually wet period.
- City planners are starting to consider how the plants and landscaping they provide affect wildlife.
- Invasive carp may already be in the Great Lakes.
- Another oil train caught fire, this time in New Brunswick (Canada).
- Here are some photos of the Jersey Shore at night.
- For those who are not tired of seeing pictures of ice yet, here are some photos of Niagara Falls frozen by the polar vortex.
