Friday roundup of nature and environmental stories — and a related Flickr fave. Many thanks to David Ian Roberts for licensing this photo of an Arctic Tern under Creative Commons.
Arctic Tern - © David Ian Roberts/Flickr
Photo by David Ian Roberts – Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirpics/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
- From National Geographic, mini transmitters now show that the Arctic Tern has the world’s longest migration, traveling 44,000 miles in a zigzag between Greenland and Antarctica.
- Not brand new, but in case you haven’t heard, our Pier 39 sea lions have trundled on northward to Oregon it seems. They’ve been reported at Sea Lion Caves, north of Florence.
- The Oakland Zoo is in trouble with neighbors for cutting down 300 acacia trees to feed animals at the zoo. The zoo promised to plant 50 oaks in exchange for the cuts.
- Marin’s coho salmon population is on the verge of collapse, egg numbers having dropped significantly. For more information check out SPAWN, Salmon Protection and Watershed Network
- Bay Nature magazine has a good piece on Great White Sharks, opening with a blurb about the Monterey Aquarium’s juvenile white.
- From Treehugger, a new species of pencil-eraser-sized gecko discovered in Ecuador. Thirty new species of reptiles and amphibians have been discovered recently through the work of the Ecuadorian Biodiversity Project.
- A copper-based compound is giving hope that a practical catalyst does exist to scrub CO2 from the air.
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I hope the sea lions return to Pier 39. When I heard the news this week I was floored. The sea lions were a highlight for me growing up in San Fran.
Great collection of enviro-tidbits!
I concur with copystrands — sea lions: I know you have your reasons … but please come back!