Archive for June 30th, 2006
Worrying About Mekong River Dolphins
Posted by jennifer, June 30th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 56
They’ve been described as the rabbits of the sea. I’m referring to minke whales.
How much money does Greenpeace spend sending boats to the Antarctic to ’save’ them?
I’m more concerned about the species that are really threatened with extinction like the freshwater dolphins of Asia.
After posting earlier today on the baniji in China, I was [...]
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Polling the State of the Environment
Posted by jennifer, June 30th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Comments: 4
Greenpeace tell us we should worry about global warming and GM food. But what are most people worried about when it comes to the environment?
There is currently a poll on ‘The Environment’ at the ‘What the People Want’ . If you fill it in and leave your email address Graham Young will [...]
A Note on Energy & Adaptation: Steven Hayward
Posted by jennifer, June 30th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 9
“In the end, a relentless campaign to extend political control over the world’s energy use is likely to fail, in part because, even if severe climate change is in our future, most people intuitively recognize that rhetoric about “the end of civilization as we know it” is inconsistent with human experience. Our distant ancestors survived [...]
Worrying About the Baiji
Posted by jennifer, June 30th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 9
I was a little confused by a recent article at ABC Online about the Baiji, the rare river dolphins in the Yangtze River in China.
I was confused because the news article titled ‘Plan hatched to save Yangtze dolphins’ suggested the dolphin would be saved because they could be relocated to a nearby lake. [...]

