"A Scientist's New Job: Keeping The Polar Bears' Plight Public"
"One government biologist discovered the best way he could help save polar bears was to quit his job."
Source: NPR, 12/30/2013
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"Number of Annual Manatee Deaths Top 800 for First Time on Record"
"For the first time since records began being kept in Florida in the 1970s, the number of manatee deaths in a single year has topped 800, with two weeks remaining to the end of 2013."
Source: Tampa Bay Times, 12/30/2013
"Reflections on the Killing of Chico Mendes 25 Years Ago"
"It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been 25 years since a cattle rancher ordered his son to shoot Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper and unionist who had become an effective international campaigner for sustainable use of the Amazon rain forest."
Source: Dot Earth, 12/26/2013
"Start-Up Uses Plant Seeds for a Biofuel"
"SAN DIEGO — In an unmarked greenhouse, leafy bushes carpet an acre of land here tucked into the suburban sprawl of Southern California. The seeds of the inedible, drought-resistant plants, called jatropha, produce a prize: high-quality oil that can be refined into low-carbon jet fuel or diesel fuel."
Source: NY Times, 12/26/2013
"Setting the Table for a Regal Butterfly Comeback, With Milkweed"
"CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Bounding out of a silver Ford pickup into the single-digit wind-flogged flatness that is Iowa in December, Laura Jackson strode to a thicket of desiccated sticks and plucked a paisley-shaped prize."
"It was a pod that, after a gentle squeeze, burst with chocolate brown buttons: seeds of milkweed, the favored — indeed, the only — food of the monarch butterfly caterpillar.
Once wild and common, milkweed has diminished as cropland expansion has drastically cut grasslands and conservation lands. Diminished too is the iconic monarch."
Source: NY Times, 12/26/2013
"Landscape Shifts Are Impacting Pheasant Hunting"
"SENECA, S.D. — Birds boiled out of the slough 30 yards ahead, brown streaks against a bright blue sky."
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12/26/2013
"Feds Reach Deal To Cut Energy Use Of TV Boxes"
"The Department of Energy has reached a deal with environmental and business groups on new energy efficiency standards for cable and satellite television boxes."
Source: Hill/E2 Wire, 12/26/2013
"After Bad Year, Insurers Face Potential Ice-Storm Hit"
"Canadian insurers are grappling with the prospect of financial damage from yet another severe storm, capping off a brutal year that raised serious questions about how the industry will deal with the costs of climate change."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 12/26/2013
"Wind Power Developers Race Clock to Secure Subsidy"
"As the rest of the world prepares to toast the new year, the wind industry is hard at work on its own year-end tradition, rushing to make sure projects qualify for an important subsidy before it is set to vanish at the stroke of midnight on Tuesday."
Source: NY Times, 12/26/2013
Need for More Tar Sands Imports Questioned With Latest U.S. Energy Data
"In 2040, domestic crude oil output will still be higher than it is today. Will the country's shifting energy picture affect Keystone XL's prospects?"
Source: InsideClimate News, 12/26/2013
