Environmental Howlings

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War on so many fronts is tirelessly logged at this venerable environmental news blog

I received my detailed Howling at a Waning Moon email news this morning, astonished by how destructive policies and practices in the Bush era are rapidly escalating while their effects are showing up worldwide. Do click through to this valuable website run by the wonderfully passionate Bob Whitson. The site has received a design update recently. I like it. It's attractive (Bob always displays wonderful photography), more user-friendly/less busy/less overwhelming than it used to be, yet it's still chock-full of the planet's most important environmental stories. Very importantly, there is a little good news in the various struggles too.

Here are some links to a sampling of what Bob has posted recently.

Documenting the decline of bird life:
Mystery of wintering Spoon-billed Sandpipers remains unsolved

Mystery of the silent woodlands: scientists are baffled as bird numbers plummet

Rivers action, particular attention to (mostly) devastating Bush policies and budget cuts -- includes discussion of the Energy Bill, with specific reference to hydroelectric policy; and a truly freightening proposal to carve out broad environmental law overrides for Homeland Security:
American Rivers' River Policy Update

Lula acts to protect the environment and quell what amounts to environmental war in the Brazillian rain forest:
Brazil's President Creates Massive Forest Reserves after Killing of American Nun

It is coming true:
Bush Team Readying Backdoor Route to Drill Arctic Refuge

US insists on "voluntary partnerships" so that curbing the worst kind of slow poisoning on the planet today will depend on the good will of the poisoners. In other words, nothing will be done. So much for the new era of Atlantic relations:
Pact to curb mercury is rejected

Exotic, illegally-cut Indonesian lauan plywood is filling home palaces we see going up around us all the time:
NEWS RELEASE: JP Morgan Chase, BlueLinx linked to illegal logging in Indonesia

Thank you Bob Whitson for providing Howling at a Waning Moon, an incredible, sane educational tool for an insane world.