Your purchase provides support & recovery programs, based in proven science, for PTSD survivors, their spouses, children, parents and loved ones. www.fearless-nation.org Continue reading →
The population of endangered California condors (Gymnogyps californianus) hit an important milestone last month, reaching a high of 405 birds—quite an achievement for a species that was down to its last 22 individuals just 25 years ago. California condors—North America’s largest birds, with a wingspan of up to 1.4 meters—were almost wiped out by poaching, DDT and lead poisoning before all of the remaining birds at the time were brought in from the wild in 1987. Captive breeding programs have increased the number of condors dramatically since then, and according to the April 30 census cited by The Oregonian, there are now 226 California condors living in the wild in California, Arizona and nearby Baja, Mexico. An additional 179 birds live in zoos and breeding ... Continue reading →
Since 1992, Jeff Pert's sardonic cartoons, particularly those featuring lobster and moose, have appeared in magazines (including Down East) and on merchandise sold throughout New England. Collecting more than 100 of his best, most popular comics, How's the Water, Bob? presents a hilarious alternative look at Maine. Continue reading →
WOW! Hard to believe this is a debut album -- it's that good. Power, soulfulness, and vocal athleticism delivered in that unmistakably Siobhan way. It's the stuff that first caught everybody's attention on AI, but freer, more refined, and far more intimate. Free of prime time and record label shackles, Siobhan delivers an intensely personal and honest work of art. Not a cookie cutter track in the bunch. Every one of us will find songs in this album that speak to us personally.Speaking of which, now for something entirely different: Those of us in the science geek world should declare "Big Collapse" to be our sacred anthem. Seriously, is there another song on the planet that references spaghettification? Leonard, Howard, and Raj (and maybe even ... Continue reading →
No comments have been added yet. Flag Abuse Flagging a post will send it to the Goodreads Customer Care team for review. We take abuse seriously in our discussion boards. Only flag comments that clearly need our attention. As a general rule we do not censor any content on the site. The only content we will consider removing is spam, slanderous attacks on other members, or extremely offensive content (eg. pornography, pro-Nazi, child abuse, etc). We will not remove any content for bad language alone, or being critical of a particular book. Continue reading →
A new gaming app has been released in an initiative to highlight the plight of the honeybee whose numbers have drastically declined in recent years as part of The Co-operative's Plan Bee Campaign. The Pollinator game features a superhero bee sent back from the future to save the world's honeybees from extinction. Set to the Flight of the Bumblebee music, the game highlights hazards facing the insects in real life by challenging players to avoid dangers such as wasps, rain and Varroa mites whilst navigating through various outdoors scenes in order to save as many bees as they can. Tips on how to help bees in real gardens are communicated within the app, such as keeping plants well watered produces lots of nectar. Players can ... Continue reading →
AP In this photo provided by the Kauai Invasive Species Committee, Pat Gmelin, mongoose response technician, holds a mongoose captured in a trap in Lihue, Hawaii on May 23, 2012. The organization fighting invasive species on Kauai said Wednesday a live mongoose has been captured on the island for the first time, raising concern the animals may already be established on the island and could jeopardize endangered species there. The male mongoose was found in a trap at Kauai Lagoons resort in Lihue and was killed with carbon dioxide in accordance with humane standards established by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. The discovery came after two months of intensive trapping at the resort and over a year or responding to reports of mongoose ... Continue reading →
The Kazakh Agriculture Ministry says at least 400 more rare saiga antelopes have been found dead in the northern Qostanai region, bringing to nearly 1,000 the number found dead in the area in the past week. The deaths remain a mystery, although some ecologists have argued that there's a link between the animals' fates and space landings in the area that might have left chemical toxins behind. On May 22, officials said at least 543 dead saigas, mainly females, were found -- including, officials say, about 120 near the village of Sorsha. It's the same area where a Russian spacecraft carrying a Russian-American crew from the International Space Station (ISS) landed in April. No link between the spacecraft and the deaths of the saigas has ... Continue reading →
Ken Goddard holds an elephant tusk, one of 72 the lab recieved in a poaching investigation. The case has gone cold. | credit: Amelia Templeton | rollover image for more ASHLAND, Ore. — In a non-descript office complex, 25 scientists are equipped with some very high-tech machines and a colony of flesh-eating beetles. They are searching for evidence that will link human suspects to animal victims. The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service is in charge of enforcing dozens of laws and treaties, including the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. For all this, the service has just one official crime lab. It’s the only lab in the world dedicated to crimes against wildlife. Ken ... Continue reading →
