| Right in the Middle of the City, a Place to Get Away From It A Central Park getaway can provide city habitués with nearly everything they might want for a weekend away at a fraction of the cost. nytimes.com |
Does Hunting Help or Hurt the Environment? Dear EarthTalk: Hunting seems to be a real controversy among environmental advocates. Can you set the record straight: Is hunting good or bad for the environment? --Bill Davis, New York, NY [More] rss.sciam.com |
Freeloading Flap: Mediterranean Seabirds That Scrounge Off Fishing Boats Have a Smaller Foraging Range Where there are fishery boats docking after a day's catch, there are usually seabirds hovering in hopes of lifting scraps. Discards from fisheries supplement the diets of these flying scavengers, but it is less clear how commercial fishing affects the foraging behavior of birds when they are out at sea and out of sight. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Bill McKibben's Eaarth (conclusion) Writer and activist Bill McKibben talks to Scientific American 's Mark Fischetti about his new book Eaarth: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet . [More] rss.sciam.com |
It's a Gas: Light Hydrocarbons Drove Microbial Blooms Cleaning Up the Gulf Oil Spill Natural gases, not oil, helped jump-start the growth of microbial blooms that are consuming the various hydrocarbons spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, according to new research. Biogeochemist David Valentine of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his colleagues tracked at least four distinct plumes of these gaseous hydrocarbons during a June research cruise --not just the one plume reported previously by a separate team of scientists. [More] Gulf of Mexico - Deepwater Horizon - Oil spill - University of California - Energy rss.sciam.com |