Tag: against ecology
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Astray salmons. Lost humans...
In drought-stricken California, young Chinook salmon are hitting the road, not the river, to get to the Pacific Ocean. Millions of six-month-old smolts are hitching rides in tanker trucks because California's historic drought has depleted rivers and streams, making the annual migration to the ocean too dangerous for juvenile salmon. "The drought conditions have caused lower…
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Oil spills, purple elephants, science as a tool of politics.
Much of the methane released by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout hung around until the end of that year. In a new study of data collected in the months after the spill, scientists report that the numbers of methane-munching microbes plummeted while the gas was still abundant. The result contradicts an earlier report, which suggested…
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Mississippi river and the "Change things" mania of modern civilization...
Maybe the Mississippi river delta isn't doomed after all. Upstream dams on the rivers that run through the delta were thought to be starving it of the sediment it needs to stay above sea level – but now it seems there's enough sand to feed the delta for centuries to come. (1) We spend so…
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Guidelines, scientific dogmatism, biased thinking...
The BBC has to adopt "clear editorial guidelines" for its reporting on the issue of climate change, MPs have said. The Science and Technology Committee said the organisation played a "central" role in informing the public. But some editors were "poor" at determining viewers' and listeners' level of expertise and sometimes pitted lobbyists against "top…
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Killing for science. Killing for fun. What's the difference?
Japan has to stop capturing and killing whales under its whaling program in the Antarctic, called JARPA II, the International Court of Justice has said. In a judgement issued in The Hague in the Netherlands today, the U.N. court has ordered Japan to revoke existing permits to catch whales for scientific purposes and to stop…
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