Thursday, March 29, 2012

What's killing Yellowstone-area elk? - Big Sky

Beyond predation, the severe winter season in 2010/11 hit calves and adult elk hard. Loveless said Fish Wildlife and Game have been monitoring the northern Yellowstone herd for winterkill since 1989, and last winter was the third highest winterkill since the study began aerial counts of elk carcasses in late spring.

ADEC school lights turned off to mark 'Earth Hour' | ADEC | AMEinfo.com

Earth Hour is a global event held on the last Saturday of March annually, where lights are symbolically turned off from 8:30 to 9:30 pm worldwide to highlight the need to deal with the environmental issues in a bid to confront the climate change phenomenon.

Why would school lights not already be off between 8:30 and 9:30 pm on a Saturday?

And you thought that heat wave was bad? | Grist

Other models foresee rises in the 18 degrees F range this century; at the outer fringe, predictions range as high as 36 degrees F.

And You Thought That Heat Wave Was Bad? | Mother Jones

Climatologist Matthew Huber on our broiling, miserable, wish-it-were-sci-fi future.

Carbon [dioxide hoax] infographic: a new way to see the earth move | News | guardian.co.uk

Would you like a bamboo keyboard? Of course you would | Grist

The iZen bamboo keyboard is 92 percent bamboo, because normally keyboards are made from plastic, and plastic is made from oil and we’d rather not.

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