USA Today reports:
As climate change warms the nation, giant Burmese pythons could colonize one-third of the USA, from San Francisco across the Southwest, Texas and the South and up north along the Virginia coast, according to U.S. Geological Survey maps released Wednesday.
Poor George Bush; just when he is about to lose his Washington DC house […]
Earlier this week the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) announced that the rapidly rising price of food was having a two-fold impact on its efforts to feed people in food poverty. First more people were suffering food poverty because of the price rises and second, the WFP could afford less food on its existing […]
After a week of intense negotiation, South Australia became the first state in Australia to introduce feed-in tariffs, with the passing of landmark legislation. The feed-in tariff offers 44 cents (twice the retail electricity rate) for every kilowatt hour of electricity which is fed back into the grid from solar PV systems. Greens MLC Mark […]
A heartwarming tale of two frogs
A not so heartwarming tale of two more frogs
A not quite so accurate depiction of how ecology works
A snuff movie
Tomorrow is Leap Day or International Day of the Frog. It’s kind of like Christmas for Frogs, but only once every four years. So I hope you’ll be joining me in the celebrations. I’ll be sharing lots of frog-related news with you.
Some of New Zealand’s most endangered species are frogs. […]