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Talk about bad news, if true. Some kind of geoengineering would the only hope. Bad Sign For Global Warming: Thawing Permafrost Holds Vast Carbon Pool. ScienceDaily.
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As Arctic Sea Ice Melts, Experts Expect New Low. New York Times. After a harder than usual winter in 2007-8, climate change skeptics were hailing the winter refreezing of the Arctic Ocean, and even suggesting global cooling was underway because there were not enough sunspots. . . as though ice shelves thousands of years old…
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We have talked a lot about knapweed on this forum because of its negative consequences for wildlife habitat. Biocontrol has been pushed as an alternative to herbicides, but this is bad news. “ScienceDaily (Sep. 5, 2008) — Biocontrol agents, such as insects, are often released outside of their native ranges to control invasive plants.” Read…
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This is a long feature article in the Missoula Independent. Bigger Game By Patrick Klemz
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This is a revised version of an earlier story. Here is the news release from the Western Watersheds Project. Rocky Barker also discusses it in his recent blog. BLM Report On The Murphy Complex Wild Fire Shows That Grazing Has Little Effect On Fire Behavior. Idaho BLM has released a long awaited Report on the…
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Anthrax NW of Yellowstone now killing wildlife. Bozeman Chronicle. By Jessica Mayrer The anthrax that has killed about 250 of Ted Turner’s bison is now killing deer and elk in the area. When I think of this and Montana Department of Livestock’s single-minded focus on brucellosis, it makes me furious. Apparently the anthrax was dormant…
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Push to drill shouldn’t hurt Wyoming Range bill, senators say. By Chris Merrill. Casper Star-Tribune environment reporter. I wouldn’t count on their judgment here. Drilling has quickly become such a Republican campaign theme that their GOP colleagues will probably vote against protecting the Wyoming Range out of pure symbolism. Sept. 3, 2008, a related story.…
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Critics: Canada’s oil boom an environmental bust. Extracting oil from Canada’s open-pit mines poses unacceptable risks to the region’s rivers and forests, critics of the projects say. By Rob Gillies. AP. They might strip mine an area as large as New York state. While oil sands does yield a lot of net energy, the ratio…