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Stunning Critters: Sea Slugs Posted to Weird Animal Report 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...Read More |
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Save the Whales, Boycott Japan Posted to Whale City 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...Read More |
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How We Relate to the Earth. Posted to Earth Talk The environment is in trouble, we all know this. In fact, we don’t know how bad it is, though. And you know what? It’s not really our fault. Let me clarify- it’s not our fault we...Read More |
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How A First Nations People Got their Salmon Back--With Help from the Maori Posted to Great News Blog The Winnemem Wintu ("middle river people") are one of the nine sub-groups or bands of the Wintu tribe, whose traditional lands were along the lower McCloud River, above the Shasta...Read More |
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Grilled Fresh Pacific Northwest Oysters Posted to Northwest Specialties It's spring in the Northwest, and local fresh oysters in the shell are readily available, and fairly affordable at about $5.00 a dozen. It's perfect weather for grilling oysters...Read More |
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Take Seafood Off Your Plate Posted to Tree Worshipper I recently ran across a constellation of articles online about something I've been thinking about for a while now. Seafood is the only commercial food which is primarily...Read More |
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Michigan Seeks Injunction Over Asian Carp Threat Posted to Earth Talk Asian CarpHave you heard about the Asian carp tragedy going on up in the Midwest right now? Lake Michigan, a large Great Lake that juts south from Canada and gave birth to the...Read More |
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Pacific Garbage Patch on The Colbert Report Posted to Earth Talk I'm catching up on my Hulu queue this week, after a big lag over the holidays, so it wasn't until this morning that I saw Charles Moore as Stephen Colbert's interview guest....Read More |
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Jellyfish Doom! Posted to Weird Animal Report I enjoy watching MonsterQuest, but it tends to irritate me. My feelings towards the show were handily summed up by a quote from the latest episode I watched. "If ____...Read More |
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The Strange Evolution of Poison and Venom Posted to Weird Animal Report I recently read an interesting New York Times article about how evolutionary biologists have finally cracked the "tetrodotoxin mystery." Tetrodotoxin is a wildly effective...Read More |
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Dungeness Crab for New Year's Posted to Northwest Specialties The Dungeness Crab, Cancer magister is named for the town of Dungeness, Washington, because it's the site of the first commercial commercial crabbing venture for the species....Read More |
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Michael Pollan and the Food System: Bioneers Posted to Earth Talk Michael Pollan speaking at BioneersBioneers is going on this weekend in California and green inventors, entrepreneurs, activists and enthusiasts from around the world are now...Read More |
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The Amazing File Clam Posted to Weird Animal Report The file clam is electrifying, to say the least. Watch this documentary snippet to see this amazing clam "show its stuff". Read More |
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Palau Bans Shark Fishing Posted to Animal Report This is some of the best conservation news I've heard in ages. The island nation of Palau has decided to ban shark fishing in its waters, a territory of ocean about the size of...Read More |
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Gooey Ducks: just weird and delicious Posted to Weird Animal Report Geoducks in an aquarium.: courtesy Flickr user cubemateA Geoduck (pronounced like 'gooey duck') is a weird one. There are creatures you see and think to yourself, damn, that's...Read More |
