by faster | Aug 13, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: August 13, 2021 SNIP: At the peak of the whaling industry, in the late 1800s, North Atlantic right whales were slaughtered in their thousands. With each carcass hauled on to the deck, whalers were taking more than just bones and flesh out of...
by faster | Jul 25, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: July 25, 2021 SNIP: In 1963, two years before I was born, Rachel Carson warned us in her book Silent Spring that we were doing terrible damage to our planet. She would weep to see how much worse it has become. Insect-rich wildlife habitats,...
by faster | Jun 7, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: June 7, 2021 SNIP: Great apes – humanity’s closest relatives, are predicted to lose a “devastating” 90% of their homelands in Africa in coming decades, according to a study. All gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos are already endangered or...
by faster | Jun 4, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: June 4, 2021 SNIP: About 3,000 elegant tern eggs were abandoned at a southern California nesting island after a drone crashed and scared off the birds, a newspaper reported Friday. Two drones were flown illegally over the Bolsa Chica...
by faster | May 31, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: High Country News DATE: May 27, 2021 SNIP: The video shows clear river water washing over rocks as sunlight dances in the shallows. Small slivers of white that look like leaves float on the surface. But they aren’t leaves; they’re the bodies of juvenile...
