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Taking Stock: World Fish Catch Falls to 90 Million Tons in 2012

By J. Matthew Roney The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) projects that the world’s wild fish harvest will fall to 90 million tons in 2012, down 2 percent from 2011. This is close to 4 percent below the all-time peak haul of nearly 94 million tons in 1996. The wild fish catch per person […]

This shop promised a free shotgun to whoever kills the most coyotes

This idea didn't sit well with a huge part of the local community.

Hummingbirds snore, apparently, and it is crazy adorable

It's the teeniest little "honk-shuuuu" you ever heard in your life.

10 reasons a carbon tax is trickier than you think

A well-designed carbon tax would be a wonderful thing. But all carbon taxes are not created equal. Climate hawks should be aware of the pitfalls and perils on the road to a tax.

Friday music blogging: Bahamas

A few days ago I went to Seattle’s legendary Crocodile to see the band Milo Greene, which I have praised before here in FMB. They were good, but the big discovery of the night was the opener, Bahamas, the Canadian indie project led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Afie Jurvanen, who used to play keyboard and guitar for […]

Pacific Coast readies for climate superstorms to come

Dust Bowl Revisited

By Janet Larsen On October 18, 2012, the Associated Press reported that “a massive dust storm swirling reddish-brown clouds over northern Oklahoma triggered a multi-vehicle accident along a major interstate…forcing police to shut down the heavily traveled roadway amid near blackout conditions.” Farmers in the region had recently plowed fields to plant winter wheat. The […]

This origami kayak folds to the size of a suitcase

I want one, and, for just $800 on Kickstarter, I can have one.

‘Bike taxidermy’ makes for the most eco-friendly hunting trophies ever

All the cool of taxidermy; no dead animals involved.

Ecuador’s dropping 22 tons of poison on the Galapagos to kill 180 million rats

The rats first came to the islands in the 1600s, aboard ships from far away, and on a steady diet of eggs and baby tortoises, lizards, snakes and now-endangered birds species, they multiplied.