From other news sources — “Human-caused stresses, including global warming and over fishing, are encouraging jellyfish surpluses in many tourist destinations and productive fisheries”—-National Science Foundation.
Some problem areas are off the coasts of Australia, the Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, the Black Sea, Namibia, Britain, the Mediterranean, the Sea of Japan, and the Yangtze estuary.
Jellyfish thrive [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Ecology’
September 30, 2008
Connections, Elections, The Common
May 13, 2008
Connecting The Dots
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Unfortunately for us, the human species and all the others that occupy our battered planet, the dots are bigger than we think, and as fast as they connect, we disconnect them. So much is happening that I don’t know what to talk about first.
First. [...]
May 12, 2008
On The Pyapon River, Burma
The bodies float. Plain folks are bathing in the river next to the bodies that have turned white. The bodies are stuck in mangrove trees in the river. Women are scrubbing clothes near the bodies.
How many dead? Myanmar is in shock. Because of the after effects of the storm, some say over 100,000 will die.
The [...]
May 5, 2008
Elephant Kills Allowed in Africa
After a 13 year suspension, officials in South Africa approved an annual culling, that’s killing, of elephants in their some of their national parks. In the Virunga, a forested region by the eastern Congo’s borders with Rwanda and Uganda, only 350 elephants remain, but they say that’s too many.
In the meantime, in Virunga National Park, [...]
