Blog entries tagged animals

Ship Sewage Rules

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Land-based sewage discharges into the ocean are illegal. Soon that ban will apply to big ships, too, under new EPA rules being announced today.

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Carnivorous Plants

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Horror movies and popular musicals notwithstanding, carnivorous plants do not eat people, nor do they grow to tower over us. Without that far-fetched scare factor, they are strangely beautiful…and decidedly weird.

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Bruce Robinson — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:00:00 +0100

From the extinct California Grizzly to the omnipresent California ground squirrel, a carefully chosen 12 animal species are featured in the small, reflective and beautifully illustrated new book, A California Bestiary.

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Bruce Robinson — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0100

The burgeoning illegal trade in rare and endangered animals isn’t good for them, or their native eco-systems, and it’s often problematic for the people who want to own the creatures.

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Native Bees

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Everything that’s in bloom right now was pollinated by a bee. That’s why we should care about the many threats these beneficial insects face.

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Bruce Robinson — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:00:00 +0100

The gradual loss of her vision changed Susan Kreiger’s way of being in the world. So, she discovered, did the guide dog who is now her constant companion.

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Sheep Shearing

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Learning the process of hands-on sheep shearing may not be wild, but it is unquestionably wooly.

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Red Cross Heroes 2010

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0100

For the seventh consecutive year, the Sonoma and Mendocino Counties chapter of the American Red Cross is honoring a group of 10 local citizens as Real Heroes among us. Continuing our own informal tradition, the North Bay Report has prepared these profiles of this year's honorees in two categories.

Good Samaritan, Youth:

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PCBs in Fish Oil

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100

Fish oil capsules have long been suspected of including small amounts of toxic PCBs, but a new lawsuit contends some manufacturers of the supplements contain far more of the banned chemicals than others.

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Ailing Pelicans

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0100

The formerly endangered California Brown Pelican appears to be facing some new challenges this winter, as hundreds of the birds have been taken to bird rescue facilities from here to Long Beach.

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Apple Moths in New Zealand

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:00:00 +0100

While California’s policy is to eradicate the Light Brown Apple Moth, a local researcher reports that New Zealand has adopted other tactics to control the bugs, which have been present in that country for more than a century.

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Bruce Robinson — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0100

Nature lovers versus breeders. Preservationists versus poachers and smugglers. A history that goes back eons versus threatened extinctions in the 21st century. These are just some of the stories that lie within the dangerous world of....butterflies?

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Recording Nature in the Tetons

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:00:00 +0100

You have to get up pretty early to capture the pure sounds of nature… and get a long way away from the rest of the noisy human race.

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