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Climate activists hit the streets for Step It Up, and more

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: A Big Step Conoco Your Own Way He Covers the Hotter Front Calling All Hawks Marian Devil Just Doesn’t Have the Same Ring Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: The Route of the Problem Don’t Get Rattled Stop It

Virginia Tech

What can you say about this? Words are inadequate. You can only ache for the victims and their families, and redouble your kindness toward those around you. You just never know what’s going to happen.

The Polar Excise

U.S. Interior edited document relating climate change to polar-bear fate Remember when U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that the agency would propose listing polar bears under the Endangered Species Act? And he said that, while the bears’ home was indeed melting, “that whole aspect of climate change is beyond the scope of the [ESA]”? […]

A Big Step

Bill McKibben reports on the successes of Step It Up 2007 Ever wish you could be in two places at once? Bill McKibben wanted to be in 1,400 this weekend, as Step It Up rallies and events unfolded in every state across the country. The veteran author and activist describes the scenes he saw in […]

Calling All Hawks

New report says climate change is a threat to U.S. security A government-funded report issued today by a group of retired U.S. generals and admirals says global warming is a security risk. The Military Advisory Board says climate change “can act as a threat multiplier,” with severe weather and drought leading to mass migrations, battles […]

Beaked inhabitants of the world, unite

In a disturbing development, there are indications that birds, apparently pissed at the concerted assault on their habitat, are organizing to fight back against the man they hold responsible.

Also at issue are what birds claim are repeated efforts to shoot them in the head.

T. Rex with feathers

Yahoo News puts it this way:

Based on the small sample we've recovered, chickens may be the closest relatives (to T. rex)," says geneticist John Asara of Beth Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, co-leader of a team reporting the discovery of faint traces of chicken-like bone lining preserved inside a dinosaur drumstick.

Science says it this way:

Let’s Do This Thing

Step It Up is tomorrow — find a rally in your area! The time has come, the Gristers say, to march for many things: stop climate change, bring carbon down, and maybe find a fling. Ahem. What we mean is: Step It Up 2007 has arrived! Tomorrow — that’s Saturday, April 14 — thousands of […]

Marian Devil Just Doesn’t Have the Same Ring

Legendary Tasmanian devil faces relocation or extinction Australia is working to save the Tasmanian devil from extinction. Plagued by a contagious cancer, the carnivorous marsupial is dying out on its eponymous island. Scientists have sent nearly 50 of the beasts to zoos and want to move 30 more to nearby Maria Island, a former prison […]