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Mine safety agency realizes it hasn’t been penalizing law-breakers

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration recently discovered that it has failed to follow up thousands of safety citations with actual, you know, penalties. Seven years now, since 2000, […]

Iraq ratifies the Kyoto Protocol

While presumably having plenty else to worry about, Iraq has found time in its busy schedule to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. In other news, reports have it that U.S. President […]

Mormon green

Via Andrew Sullivan comes this green Mormon blog. Why? This is the short answer (in Mormon speak): Because I have a testimony of our responsibility as stewards of God’s Creation. […]

Wolf kills in northern Rockies made easier, drought may affect nuke plants in U.S. Southeast, and mo

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: ‘Paign and Suffraging Killing Me Swiftly The Policed We Can Do Talk on the Wild Side Use the Forethought, Nuke […]

Navy resumes sonar training off California coast

As a legal battle rages on over the U.S. Navy’s use of whale-addling sonar, the military maritimers have resumed sonar training off the California coast.

Romney criticized McCain on climate, and more election news

In his victory speech after triumphing in the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday, Barack Obama called on Americans to come together to make “energy cleaner” — but environmental issues […]

South Carolina primary

Barack Obama is projected to win the South Carolina primary. UPDATE: Did I say win? I meant romp like Godzilla. In other news, popular Florida governor Charlie Crist has endorsed […]

Scared-straight birds and kite-powered cargo ships

New protections that required longline tuna fishing fleets to use bird-scaring lines, or tori lines, went into effect. In addition, international measures asked longliners to fish at night, when few birds are active, and to sink baited hooks out of reach ...

... an open fish farm that cultivates kahala, also known as Hawaiian yellowtail or amberjack, planned to double its capacity ...

... a 14-man British and Irish rowing crew crossed the Atlantic in 33 days, seven hours and 30 minutes, a full two days faster than the previous record ...

... a female leatherback turtle crossed the Pacific while tagged, resulting in the longest recorded migration journey in the ocean. She covered 12,744 miles before the signal was lost after 647 days ...

... scientists recorded, for the first time, a giant internal ocean wave breaking underwater near Hawaii. The researchers used instruments strung along 900 miles to capture the data ...

Friday music blogging: The Avett Brothers

Last week I mentioned Southern rock as one of the things I’d spurned in my youthful rejection of my native culture, only to rediscover and appreciate it as an adult. […]

Scientists will study coral in this International Year of the Reef

If you were wondering what that odd smell is in the air, it’s because 2008 is the International Year of the Reefer. Oh, wait, we read that wrong. The reef […]