July 2010

  • Stunning Critters: Sea Slugs

    By mous on 7/20/10 12:53pm
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    Sea slugs are pretty strange critters. They can be found just below the low tide line in tropical waters, clinging to underwater vegetation or creeping along the bottom of the ocean. Unlike their land crawling relatives, sea slugs are beautiful and come in an array of colors and textures. they are typically tiny, most under an inch long, but some have been spotted as long as 12 inches long.



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  • Save the Whales, Boycott Japan

    By dfunzy on 7/7/10 10:20am
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    Japan keeps slaughtering whales. The Japanese slaughter about one thousand whales a year — primarily minke whales — as part of a government-sponsored and financed program that the Japanese government claims is for so-called scientific purposes. People concerned about this slaughter rightly call it for what it is -- commercial whaling, which has been banned worldwide since 1986. Japan is thumbing her nose at the world.

    Today, Wednesday, Peter Bethune, an antiwhaling activist from New Zealand, a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, was convicted by a Japanese court of trespassing, vandalism, assault and obstructing Japan’s whaling fleet in the Antarctic. His sentence was suspended, and is expected to be booted out of the country

    Various groups confront the Japanese whaling fleet to interfere with the whale hunts. These confrontations have led to some violence.

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