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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
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This year's featured creature is drawn to illustrate the proliferation of bottle caps and other plastic debris that end up in the ocean or on the state's beaches. Charles Moore, a scientist who has devoted his life to halting the proliferation of marine debris, believes such efforts are excellent tools for public education but do little to tackle the problem head-on. The California Ocean Protection Council has drafted a strategy to reduce such plastic debris.
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Thursday, 21 August 2008 |
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With farmers hoping for healthy crops and urban dwellers searching for blessings in one of South America’s poorest countries, no month beats August for the yatiris (pronounced yah-TEE-rees), specialists in divining good luck who sell their services along Avenida Panoramica in El Alto. Feeding the Pachamama, whom the Aymara also call Mother Earth or Mother Virgin, involves an intricate web of symbolic gestures incorporating coca leaves, bootleg spirits and dead animals, preferably in the form of fetuses when it comes to llamas, pigs, cats and dogs.
Noah Friedman-Rudovsky for The New York Times
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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Speaking before an audience of politicians, energy gurus and concerned citizens at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas last night, former president Bill Clinton laid out an ambitious set of what he considers national and global priorities for the deployment of clean energy technologies. “We need some way to capture the public’s imagination and demonstrate that we all ought to get in this boat and row,” he said.
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
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An online portal is accepting comments on the Department of Interior's proposed overhaul of the Endangered Species Act, which could do away with scientific reviews of construction and development projects.
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
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Ethiopia, perennially one of the world's hungriest nations, now faces what Oxfam, one of dozens of international aid organizations responding to the crisis, calls "a toxic cocktail." Its ingredients: drought that in some places killed the entire spring crop; global inflation that has doubled the price of food; armed rebellion in the Somali region that has disrupted food delivery; and assorted plagues, from insects to hailstones.
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