Whale Wars fiasco: High seas collision grounds sea shepherd
The extreme environmentalists fighting whaling, the Sea Shepherd Society, have received incredible sympathy with the broadcast of Whale Wars, and now they’re riding in a new boat, the Bob Barker (apparently he wasn’t just interested in spaying and neutering pets), according to the Associated Press.
That’s because their old boat, which looks like something Batman would drive, collided — or was rammed deliberately — by a Japanese
10 shocking facts about our world
When you write about money and the environment for a living, you’re constantly bombarded by related facts, figures, and other interesting stuff.
It seems like a day doesn’t pass without someone emailing me a press release about how much CO2 is released via cow flatulence every year, or how much money you could save by heating your home with cow chips. Come to think of it,
Why Antarctica isn’t melting like the Arctic … yet
You’ve probably noticed that you read a lot of stories on Arctic melt, how quickly it’s progressing, opening up shipping lanes and hurriedly moving towards ice-free summers. But what you don’t read much about is melting of Antarctica’s ice sheets. If global warming is causing polar ice melt — why don’t we hear about Antarctica?
Well, that’s because the continent’s ice sheets aren’t melting that much –
