World's Sixth Mass Extinction May be Underway -- Study

Richard Ingham & Laurent Banguet AFP News 3 Mar

Mankind may have unleashed the sixth known mass extinction 
in Earth's history, according to a paper released on Wednesday by the science journal Nature. Full story here.

Texas Activists Ready to Fight Over $7bn Canadian Oil Pipeline in the Home of Black Gold

•Suzanne Goldenberg• guardian.co.uk 2 Mar'11

US landowners along the proposed route – from Alberta to the Gulf coast – accuse oil firm TransCanada of bullying. Full story here.  

  Pipeline about to be installed in Manitoba, presumably to link to Alberta Tar Sands. Photo Credit: Loozrboy

 

Shoppers Wary of GM Foods Find They're Everywhere

Feb 25'11 - By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- You may not want to eat genetically engineered foods. Chances are, you are eating them anyway. Full story here.

PUBLISHER'S COMMENT: This may be a US story. Unfortunately, Canada is no better! l.p.

Arctic Plankton Blooms Arriving Earlier. Fish May Be Imperiled

Michael Ricciardi - Planetsave - Mar 3 '11
Over the past decade, the Arctic’s annual “bloom” of phytoplankton has been arriving earlier each year. Full story here.

  

 

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Climate Change Makes Major Snowstorms More Likely - Union of Concerned Scientists

Heavy Snowpack, “Spring Creep” Raise Threat Of Record Floods
 
WASHINGTON (March 1, 2011) – Global warming is “loading the dice” to increase the frequency of record-setting snowstorms like those that have pounded the United States and Europe the past two winters. Full report here.

Credit: Reuters

Cougar Declared Extinct in Eastern US

McClatchy News - Mar 2'11

The eastern cougar has been declared extinct, according to a report issued Wednesday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Read Story here.