My mail is still kinda funky (not forwarding correctly) so I’m a bit late in catching this, but The American Prospect has a great special report this month on the Amazon. A slew of articles, sidebars and graphs examine the commercial interests vying for access to the forest, the effect on the Amazon basin, and [...]

I’ve mentioned em before (as has NewMexiKen) but Meredith sent along this article from the Washington City Paper. It’s been the best to date:
But it’s not bananas making bees crazy on a global scale. The heart of the question seems to be: Is [Colony Collapse Disorder] something correctable—if we stop trucking bees cross-country and feeding [...]

Actually, plenty of people are. NewMexiKen was wondering back in April (along with the New York Times) and here in Silver City bees have been an issue for the past several weeks.
Today in Salon, four experts tackle the declining-bee-population problem:
The buzz about the alarming disappearance of bees has been all about people food. Honeybees pollinate [...]

I’ve got an article (PDF) in today’s Daily Press discussing a recent project in the Mangas Watershed to restore fire into the natural cycle of the ecosystem. A big part of the article details the cooperation among the agencies involved in the process, but the real interesting stuff if the way prescribed burns are helping [...]

Via Facebook of all places (I’m friends with Ranger Rick!) comes this National Geographic Green Guide item on Earth Day:
While global warming and human expansion have us focused on dropping the carbon pounds—switching light bulbs, reducing gas mileage and buying carbon offsets—vast numbers of species continue to lose their native habitats and food supplies. [...]

Yep, as I was saying yesterday, so much of what the Bush Administration does is for political gain. Sometimes, they also helps out their buddies in industry. Take, for example, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service:
And at the center of it is one Julie A. MacDonald, appointed by Bush to be the deputy assistant secretary [...]

Craig Roepke, the Interstate Stream Commission deputy director, just passed along a list of the studies that would have been completed on the Gila this year, if Gov. Bill Richardson hadn’t axed the funding yesterday:

Extinction Risk Analysis for Spikedace and Loachminnow ($30,000)
Land-Use and Land Management of the Gila and San Francisco Rivers ($50,000)
Characterizing Hydrogeomorphic Conditions [...]

He let me get pretty close (focal length on my lens tops out at 70 mm), which surprised me, but I’m not going to complain. I either saw him twice on two different points along the trail, or there are two of them there. Going back later(or tomorrow) to check.
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite [...]

My sister sent me this article, which ran in the Times yesterday:
Using the same clandestine routes as drug smugglers, male jaguars are crossing into the United States from Mexico.
Four of the elusive cats have been photographed in the last decade — one as recently as last February — in the formidable, rugged mountain ranges of [...]