Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with nature www.salem-news.com 2013 A new study identifies acutely toxic pesticides as the most likely leading cause of the widespread decline in grassland bird numbers in the United States. The finding challenges the widely-held assumption that loss of habitat is the primary cause of those population declines. http://salem-news.com/articles/february252013/horned-lark.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february252013/horned-lark.php Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:23:00 PST The first known nest of one of the world's rarest birds - the Critically Endangered Stresemann's Bristlefront - has been discovered in Brazil. Of perhaps equal significance is that strong evidence of active nestlings was also found. The Stresemann's Bristlefront is one of the world's most threatened bird species -- unrecorded for 50 years until it was rediscovered in 1995 near Una, Bahia, in Brazil's Atlantic Forest region. http://salem-news.com/articles/january172013/stresemanns-bristlefront.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january172013/stresemanns-bristlefront.php Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:58:00 PST The research carried out by Britian's Sir John B. Gurdon and Japan's Shinya Yamanaka, both awarded with the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2012, gave birth to cellular reprogramming. The conquest achieved, revealed that the efforts put in the investigations with embryonic cells for clinic purposes are useless and completely sterile. http://salem-news.com/articles/january142013/stem-research-crf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january142013/stem-research-crf.php Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:10:00 PST If Jesus could be beamed down to earth, it would not require any divine circumvention as to viscosity, hydraulic principles or gravity. On the other hand, if He were to attempt to replicate the loaves-and-fishes routine, He just might have a problem. Because the Dead Sea was never like this. http://salem-news.com/articles/december132012/river-walking-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december132012/river-walking-ba.php Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:01:00 PST Astronomers say a massive object is headed straight for the earth. Many observers say it gives weight the the Myan Calindar theory which sees major change impacting the earth in the year 2012. English Astroastronomer John L. Walson, said, "now its 9 days until the truth... space objects... videos... its not what you think" http://salem-news.com/articles/december082012/space-objects-jg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december082012/space-objects-jg.php Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:04:00 PST On Thanksgiving day a 19 year old boy died in upstate New York of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Diagnosed with ALL when he was 9, his disease returned with a vengeance when he was 17.* He is the only child of a divorced mother who participated in Cure, a support group for families of children with cancer. http://salem-news.com/articles/november302012/toxic-death.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november302012/toxic-death.php Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:00:00 PST The movement of tectonic plates over a volcanic hotspot typically results in a narrow chain of seamounts, such as the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Trail. This hotspot trail is fed by a deep-mantle plume, which scientists believe drifted 15 degrees southward over millions of years because of a Pacific Ocean-wide “mantle wind.” http://salem-news.com/articles/november252012/volcanic-hotspots-mf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november252012/volcanic-hotspots-mf.php Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:44:00 PST The CWN!C which I co-founded and for whom I have proudly served as its only Executive Director is saying "Sayonara". http://salem-news.com/articles/november212012/cwn-changes-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november212012/cwn-changes-rb.php Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:49:00 PST I’ve intuitionally felt for quite some time the resonance of Churchill’s quote in regards to desalination in general: We’ve drained our streams, our lakes and aquifers dry, that damned desalination is the last tool in the water supply pouch... http://salem-news.com/articles/november162012/desal-debate-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november162012/desal-debate-rb.php Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:25:00 PST I’ve seen and heard a lot on my 15-year eco-watch, yet this pulling back of the drapes, this highly compensated intervention strategy kind of gave me the creeps. It has an eerie, freaky and other-worldly feeling to it. Never having known or heard of it, maybe I could have milked the system long ago and retired to Hawai’i if I had! http://salem-news.com/articles/october052012/cal-prop-103-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october052012/cal-prop-103-rb.php Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:25:00 PDT Today, PBS Newshour on OPB aired an interesting investigative report on the spraying of dangerous herbicides on Oregon clear cuts in private land owned and exploited by the $13B industry’s lumber barons. Specifically called out were Weyerhauser, Roseburg Resources and Seneca Jones. http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/oregonian-importance-mm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september122012/oregonian-importance-mm.php Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:00:00 PDT The Science Channel's 'NASA’s Unexplained Files' examines sightings reported by astronauts from several space launchings. One happened in 1966 during Mission Gemini. The astronauts reported “seeing something they could not identify; a bright object that seems to change shape before their eyes coming towards them.” http://salem-news.com/articles/august192012/unexplained-files-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august192012/unexplained-files-ec.php Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:40:00 PDT A team of scientists and cave conservationists discovered a relatively huge, unique spider in caves and forests of the Pacific Northwest. The novel combination of evolutionary features in this spider, Trogloraptor, compelled them to recognize a new family. http://salem-news.com/articles/august182012/new-spider.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august182012/new-spider.php Sat, 18 Aug 2012 03:07:00 PDT There are wolves prowling around the Department of Corrections grounds off Center Street. I timidly slid past one that was crouching near a fir tree. Another bared his teeth, staring at me menacingly. It made me nervous. There are gray wolves, brown wolves, and painted striped wolves. They’re about a half an inch thick and stiff as, well, a board. http://salem-news.com/articles/july302012/wolves-salem-ll.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july302012/wolves-salem-ll.php Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:32:00 PDT BANANAs might be comprehensible to readers as NIMBYs to the nth power. Think of them as small children who learn early on the immature and unreasonable power of “NO!” that can stop a parent dead in their tracks at the mall-----whereas “YES” doesn’t get much of a reaction. http://salem-news.com/articles/july302012/banana-2-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july302012/banana-2-rb.php Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:20:00 PDT Imagine that in one of the hot days of summer, you're invited to a "water-sprinkling" festival along with happy people and children gathered to celebrate a joyous day. It can be easily visualized that playing with water in a hot summer day in a beautiful city park together with a host of delighted citizens can be quite blissful and fantastic. http://salem-news.com/articles/july212012/tirgan-festival-np.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july212012/tirgan-festival-np.php Sat, 21 Jul 2012 16:25:00 PDT I’m hoping to help educate SNc browsers in a better understanding of environmental protectionists (ENVIROS) in my professional field, and also the genesis and evolution of anti-development concepts in general. If not there already, protectionists ARE coming to a neighborhood near you soon. http://salem-news.com/articles/july142012/banana-bandana-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july142012/banana-bandana-rb.php Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:30:00 PDT A conservative group that uses public records requests in an attempt to publicize emails written by climate scientists has turned its attention to environmental reporters. The top target so far is New York Times reporter Justin Gillis http://salem-news.com/articles/july122012/ati-attacks-journalists-lh-pv.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july122012/ati-attacks-journalists-lh-pv.php Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:20:00 PDT The title is a quote from Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride. And Mother Nature has been unusually busy lately, helping out mankind. At every step, she is ending long-standing fears. One by one, they are being overturned. http://salem-news.com/articles/june262012/mother-nature.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june262012/mother-nature.php Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:27:00 PDT Cascadia Earth First! and Cascadia Forest Defenders converged at the Oregon State Capitol after the regional Earth First! Rendezvous. Activists staged a “die-in” and hung banners reading, “Oregon: For Sale by Kate Brown and Ted Wheeler” and “Defend Oregon, No Compromise, Earth First!” http://salem-news.com/articles/june252012/salem-protest.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june252012/salem-protest.php Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:09:00 PDT Bird conservation groups are attacking a new political move as “one of the most regressive wildlife appropriations” ever. Crucial conservation programs were slashed by 50% of FY 2012 funding levels in a funding bill approved by the House Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee for Fiscal Year 2013. http://salem-news.com/articles/june222012/bird-protections.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june222012/bird-protections.php Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:44:00 PDT The U.S. Marine Corps buried a massive stockpile of Agent Orange at the Futenma air station in Okinawa, seriously sickening the base’s former head of maintenance and potentially contaminating nearby residents and the ground beneath the base. The barrels were abandoned in Okinawa at the end of the Vietnam War... http://salem-news.com/articles/june202012/okinawa-ao-jm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june202012/okinawa-ao-jm.php Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:46:00 PDT It is a sad day for those of us who have followed the incredible life work of Dr. Rosalie Bertell. She passed away 14 June 2012. http://salem-news.com/articles/june162012/rosalie-bertell-ro.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june162012/rosalie-bertell-ro.php Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:36:00 PDT Two nonprofit groups today announced their support for a proposed ballot measure to stop commercial gillnet fishing on the lower Columbia. The Humane Society of the United States and Oregon Wild endorsed the measure sponsored by the Stop Gillnetting Now coalition, which is headed for the November ballot. http://salem-news.com/articles/june072012/gillnetting-coalition.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june072012/gillnetting-coalition.php Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:59:00 PDT The Science Channel has broadcast several programs regarding black holes in which scientists state they have been unable to explain how they were created and they are unable to answer many questions about them. This article examines excerpts of the programs with some of the mysteries they are trying to resolve and the questions they are trying to answer. http://salem-news.com/articles/may272012/black-holes-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may272012/black-holes-ec.php Sun, 27 May 2012 11:41:00 PDT In a Sept. 30, 1998 UCSD television program titled: “The Moon of Jupiter”, pictures taken in 1997 were shown. One picture was of the moon Io with one half of the moon in daylight and one half in darkness. The picture was taken to look at the surface details but when they stretched out the image to bring out the faint details, they realized these volcanic eruptions also glow faintly like fluorescent lights. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/volcano-lo-plus-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/volcano-lo-plus-ec.php Sat, 12 May 2012 16:34:00 PDT What with all of the social media possibilities, it’s pretty much impossible to find anyone you know that doesn’t have and/or browse some type of online communication venue. There are those who not only have their own interface (blog sites), ones they control, but post comments at the sites of others. http://salem-news.com/articles/may042012/blog-blog-blog-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may042012/blog-blog-blog-rb.php Fri, 04 May 2012 01:35:00 PDT The US Chamber of Commerce sent out an email blast on Friday, April 20th urging all Americans to petition the White House directly regarding the Keystone XL Pipeline. It is filled to the brim with deception and avails itself heavily of the two quoted concepts above. http://salem-news.com/articles/april282012/keystone-pipeline-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april282012/keystone-pipeline-rb.php Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:14:00 PDT The new short video “Poets & Writers: Green Printing and Beyond” explores how the magazine decided to use recycled paper. This decision influenced a comprehensive greening strategy for its organization; Poets & Writers Magazine, is an award-winning bimonthly. http://salem-news.com/articles/april252012/recycled-mags.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april252012/recycled-mags.php Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:38:00 PDT Earth Day 2012: Don Alfredo Figueroa Speaks About The Aztec Sunstone Calendar In honor of Earth Day, 2012, RL | A ECO is beginning to release several short videos on-line featuring Elder Historian and Chemehuevi Cultural Monitor, Don Alfredo Figueroa. http://salem-news.com/articles/april222012/alfredo-figueroa-rl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april222012/alfredo-figueroa-rl.php Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:27:00 PDT