Jackals – Kenya wallpaper
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Canis aureus
Canis adustus
Canis mesomelas
Jackal – from Turk. çakal, from Pers. shaghal, from Skt. srgala-s, lit. “the howler.” Fig. sense of “skulking henchman” is from the old belief that jackals stirred up game for lions. from the Online Etymology Dictionary.
‘Protein-friendly’ [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Africa Jackals wallpaper, Protein friendly chip for diagnosis, Bottom trawling an environmental disaster
Posted in Environment-General, Environment-wildlife, Health, News, Science on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Snowy Grand Canyon, Lynx Biggest Threat is Beauracy
Posted in Environment-wildlife, News, Politics on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Snowy Grand Canyon wallpaper
Feds Want More Critical Habitat for Lynx
Federal wildlife managers said Thursday they want to increase by more than 20-fold the amount of land designated as critical habitat for the threatened Canada lynx, to nearly 43,000 square miles in six states.
Only 1,841 square miles in three national parks in Minnesota, Montana and Washington [...]
Tanzania Tree wallpaper, Go Home-Grown, World Seed Vault Opens
Posted in Environment-General, News, Society & Culture, economics on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gnarled Old Tree Tanzania wallpaper
For Sustainable Food Choices, Go Home-Grown
But why should anyone care? Why is local, sustainably grown produce better and healthier than what we buy in a corner store or chain grocery store?
First, buying local means putting money back into the local economy, which supports area farmers and boosts economic development and [...]
Bee and Butterfly Fantasy wallpaper, Butterfly fish endangered
Posted in Environment-wildlife, News, Society & Culture on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bee and Butterfly Fantasy wallpaper
Swimming Toward Extinction?
A fish coveted by aquarium collectors may be at risk of extinction, scientists warn.
Butterflyfish (C. trifascialis) may start to disappear if pollution and climate change continues to cause coral reefs — their only food source — to degrade, a new study finds.
Maybe those aquarium owners that like the [...]
Mount Rainier Wildflowers wallpaper, Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean
Posted in Environment-General, News, Science on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mount Rainier Wildflowers wallpaper
Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean
UK scientists working in Antarctica have found some of the clearest evidence yet of instabilities in the ice of part of West Antarctica.
If the trend continues, they say, it could lead to a significant rise in global sea level.
The new evidence comes from a group of glaciers [...]
