Hunting, fishing, and shooting sports are dumping millions of pounds of lead into our environment each year, threatening wildlife.
Radiograph of immature bald eagle
containing numerous lead shot
in its digestive tract
Credit: Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
One benefit to high gas prices is that they are driving automobile deaths down by one 1,000 a month by one prediction.
NASA cutting straight to its most important experiments on the Mars Lander in case a short-circuit kills its remaining ovens .
Stephen L. Johnson, who I’ve previously covered , has succeeded in preventing America from doing anything about air pollution until we have a new President.
22 iPhone Applications for science geeks .
Study of an Iquanodon fossil reveal it died from getting stuck in the mud and then eaten by another dinosaur .
North African nations are preparing to build a wall of trees to halt the expansion of the Sahara Desert .
Wind-blown dust from the
expanding Sahara Desert
Credit: NASA
Chemicals that make up life on Earth would also work on hot super-Earths found orbiting other stars.
A remote-controlled robot that can go shopping for you .
The Baby Boom galaxy produces 4,000 new stars a year , compared to our Milky Way’s 10.
Will West Virginia allow companies to strip-mine Coal River Mountain one of the last mountains still intact in the Coal River Valley?
Cicada Earrings .
Make’s Game of Life kit:
Game of Life – An electronics kit from make magazine on Vimeo .
Heh – I read an article in Field & Stream (which mysteriously started coming to my house) talking about the lead bullets, and which bullets to use in places that ban them. (They’re all more expensive…) I’m surprised by the amount of environmentalism in this hunter’s mag — It’s true what you blogged about before: Can’t eat tasty animals if they’re all gone.
Comment by ClintJCL — July 14, 2008 @ 4:56 am