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[Link] Wildlife officers complete two-year quest to remove tyre from elk's neck
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The elk was first spotted with the tyre more than two years ago, during a wildlife survey. Speaking in 2020 about how the elk may have wound up like that, Mr Murdoch speculated it would have become stuck while the elk was young, before it grew antlers.
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[Link] Biden's Infrastructure Bill Will Try and Rebuild America's Forests
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Wildfires have destroyed an average of 7 -million acres of American forest every year since 2000. This fragments ecosystems, kills off wildlife, and shrinks our best natural weapon against greenhouse gas emissions: trees. The latest version of the $1.
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[Link] The Gulf of Mexico’s 'Dead Zone' Is Now the Size of Connecticut
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
A scientist-led research cruise has found that the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” is now measuring at 6,334 square miles, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Tuesday, which is roughly the size of Connecticut.
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[Link] Bubonic plague in chipmunks forces closure of top Lake Tahoe sites
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Surrounded by fires, parched by drought, and shut down by the pandemic – residents of California’s scenic South Lake Tahoe thought they’d endured everything.
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[Link] Over half the deer tested in Michigan have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2
Read: 31/7/2021 arstechnica.com
On Wednesday, the US Department of Agriculture released some rather disturbing news: a survey of wild deer populations has found that large numbers of the animals seem to have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.