Arnold Schwarzenegger has gotten hurrahs from environmentalists for his muscular words backing tough measures to control climate change, but signs of a schism between the governor and true-green enviros appeared Tuesday at a San Francisco climate summit. The gov says he still puts global warming way up on his worry list, but in a speech […]
Reuters: Man versus Killer Pythons in the Florida ‘glades.
Holy boa constrictor, there’s monsters in that swamp. “It could be thousands…it could be a number I don’t want to know. It could be scary,” says a US Park Service wildlife biologist. Or so reports Reuters man Tom Brown after a visit to a project to eradicate the giant Burmese python from Everglades National Park. […]
Old Bone News: Ethiopian Fossils Reveal Key Step in Early Human Evolution
Leaders of an Ethiopian expedition led by Ethiopian and US (mostly UC Berkeley) paleoanthropologists say in this week’s Nature that a newly analyzed trove of bones helps fill in events from the time two-legged walking was evolving, and from a primitive genus called Ardepithecus was arising early Australopithecus — the hominid genus that led to […]
AP, Reuters: Venus gets a small, new, European moon
Applause burst from Venus Express mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, as the probe’s radio signal confirmed it entered orbit around the next planet toward the sun from Earth. It happened late Sunday night US time, and it’s not NASA, so we will watch with interest to see if US dailies cover it with staff reports. […]
Columbus Dispatch: Easter bunny’s competition from natural eggs
This is charming. Dispatch writer Mark D. Somerson makes an orthogonal riff on the season’s frenzy of egg-dyeing by walking his readers through the Ohio woods and fields to see some of the crazily festooned natural eggs that birds are or soon will be plopping into their nests. Aside from the gallery of diverse eggs […]
AP: Spirit, the Mars Rover with a bad wheel, can’t reach preferred winter haven
NASA photo of churned soil left by rover’s dragged wheel. . With one of six wheels unable to turn and dragging in the red dust of Mars, the NASA rover named Spirit is to endure the winter parked on a small hill, tilted toward the sun to keep her batteries from going flat. AP’s Alicia […]