Year: 2011
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Penguin Seduction
GoPro HD Hero camera + fuzzy hat as “decoy” + curious penguin = He got especially involved when I started building a pebble nest for the camera. Male Adelie penguins woo the ladies by bringing pebbles for their nests… this one started picking up the pebbles close to the camera with his beak, and plopping…
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Jackson the elephant seal takes an 18000 mile stroll
Legend has it that back in ancient Greece, some guy named Pheidippides ran 27 miles (technically 26 miles and 385 yards) to alert his general that the Persians had been defeated at the battle of Marathon. Then he dropped dead from the exertion. He was of course considered a hero and the run is immortalized…
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Polar bears debate causes of climate change
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDIP71Lviys[/youtube]
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Our Blue
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5HXyOgz2YA&sns=fb[/youtube]
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Where’s the #climatechange coverage HuffPost?!
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Whale Falls: A Blubbery Oasis
In the spirit of the holiday season, let us consider the gift that really keeps on giving: dead whales! Okay, now before you get any big ideas, I’m talking about whales that have died naturally and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. These “whale falls” are a true oasis on the dark sea floor,…
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Paul Greenberg on GM salmon
Paul “four fish” Greenberg testified before congress yesterday about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) salmon. I am generally not nearly as concerned about GM crops and food as most enviros, but I’d rather not see people modifying wild organisms and then releasing them back into the wild. Below are a few exerpts from Paul’s…
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The climate conversation
There has been a big conversation in the climate-o-sphere over the last week or two about what we need to do – or can do – about greenhouse gas emissions. I don’t agree with a lot of the points people have made, but it certainly got me thinking. Start here with Andy Revkin and Naomi…
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Where’s the #climatechange coverage?!
Seriously, so much is happening in the climate change world; scientific advancements, thoughtful policy debates about the choice we are facing, even some more funny stuff from the Onion. But you wouldn’t know any of that based on the coverage in the LSM. This is a wordle of the front page of today’s online edition…
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Climate change driven seaweed range shifts
There is a really neat new paper on species range shifts in response to global warming in Current Biology (Wernberg et al 2011). The authors used an exquisite online database of >20,000 herbarium records of macroalgae collected in Australia since the 1940s to assess changes in the northern range limits of seaweed. On both Australia’s west and east…