Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Green Blog: On Our Radar: State Media Decry Beijing's Pollution

The official People?s Daily says the city?s air pollution is a ?suffocating siege? that must be urgently addressed. [BBC]

More than 670 hunters from at least 30 states sign up as Florida opens a contest for killing the Burmese pythons that are devouring bobcats, opossums and other animals in a southern swath of the state. The hunt will continue until Feb. 10. [Bloomberg News]

A federal judge in Alaska throws out a plan designating more than 187,000 square miles in and near the Beaufort and Chukchi seas ? an area larger than California ? as protected habitat for endangered polar bears. [Associated Press]

Explorers complete their 600-mile trek to subglacial Lake Whillans at the edge of the West Antarctic ice sheet. This week they plan to drill into the lake, buried beneath some 2,600 feet of ice, to search for ancient microbial life and seek data that shed light on the role that subglacial lakes and rivers play in stabilizing or destabilizing the ice sheet. [Nature]

Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/on-our-radar-state-media-decry-beijings-pollution/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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