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Tribes and Bushies reach Northwest salmon settlement

In exchange for four Native tribes dropping lawsuits, the Bush administration will spend $900 million over the next decade to help out Northwest salmon. The settlement reached Monday ends, for […]

Heston on global warming

Apparently actor Charlton Heston has escaped this mortal coil. I have no particular insight on his film career, but here, for your edification, are his wingnuterrific wise thoughts on climate […]

Brazil aims to protect Amazon by using sustainably harvested rubber in condoms

Photo: iStockphoto Hard up for ways to preserve the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government has announced it’s opening a condom factory that will use rubber harvested sustainably from the imperiled […]

A roundup of news snippets

• Rubber plantations to feed China’s booming tire industry are threatening rainforests. • The Kansas legislature continues to push for new coal plants. • More polar bears venture out of […]

Food prices and ‘level playing fields’

In last week’s Victual Reality, I took Alice Waters and Michael Pollan to task for praising recent hikes in industrial food prices as a prod for promoting sustainable agriculture. "Higher […]

Getting distracted

There the World Health Organization goes again: Millions of Asians could face poverty, disease, and hunger as a result of rising temperatures and increased rainfall expected to hit hardest poor […]

Militant activists charged in seal protest

Two members of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have been charged with sailing too close to a Canadian vessel while protesting the country’s annual seal hunt. Capt. Alexander Cornelissen […]

Photosynthesis and invertibrate sex

Two new studies may upend previously accepted understanding of photosynthesis. A widespread type of cyanobacteria may not use as much carbon dioxide in photosynthesis as presumed, meaning the oceans are capable of less carbon dioxide absorption than scientists had thought ...

... in other cyanobacteria news, scientists discovered that viruses may play a key role in prompting the phytoplankton to consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen ...

... the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dropped buoys into the water off the coast of Massachusetts that will record sound for the next 30 months in an attempt to understand the effect of ocean noise on marine wildlife ...

A roundup of news snippets

• British Columbia unveils a cap-and-trade plan. • U.S. droughts endanger Canada’s water. • Mexico City bans smoking. • Pesticides are wiping out American songbirds.

Elton John, Lindsay Lohan, and 50 Cent unite to free a killer whale — meet the man who brought them

Celebs are flipping out over Lolita’s living conditions. Photo: Krosstok Hollywood producer Raul Julia-Levy’s current project involves an impressive cast ranging from Johnny Depp, Lindsay Lohan, and Harrison Ford to […]