Aloha Teddy Bear Friday!
National Teddy Bear Day is dedicated to the stuffed bear that was named after the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. On a hunting expedition, Roosevelt refused to shoot an injured bear. After the incident was publicized in a Washington Post drawing, Rose and Morris Mitchom, store owners in New York City, saw the cartoon and were inspired to create the teddy bear, which they originally called "Teddy's bear." They eventually founded the Ideal Toy Company which produced the bears.
Group
seeks endangered species protection for West Coast bull kelp
An environmental group is seeking Endangered Species Act
protections for underwater forests of bull kelp along the West
Coast. The Center for Biological Diversity on Thursday
submitted a petition to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration to grant endangered status to the long stalks
of kelp that are critical to Oregon coastal ecosystems.
‘We’re
Sued on Pretty Much Everything We Try’: Canada’s Climate
Minister
When Steven Guilbeault became Canada’s environment minister he
was assigned a lengthy mandate letter which boils down to,
more or less: fix climate change, please. In fact, his
official title is Minister of Environment and Climate Change —
a mantle he wears after being an environmental activist for 30
years before he transitioned to politics.
‘A
beautiful lie’: BC Hydro says it will replace the wetlands
Site C destroys, but experts say it’s impossible
This month, BC Hydro is set to drain and log Watson Slough to
make way for the Site C dam in northwest B.C. Beavers will be
trapped and euthanized and their dams will be destroyed to
release the water from the wetlands. The slough, a collection
of different types of wetlands stretching 20 hectares —
roughly the size of 25 Canadian football fields — is a beloved
nature area in the Peace River Valley renowned for
birdwatching and visited by hundreds of schoolchildren over
the years. It’s home to at-risk species like the yellow rail,
a small marsh bird that hides among the grasses, and the
stocky western toad. Elk, black bears, beavers, deer and
muskrats also use the wetland along Highway 29 west of Fort
St. John.
Green
crabs have already invaded Washington's shorelines. Now
they're heading to Alaska.
The first signs of the Alaskan invasion were discovered by an
intern. In July, a young woman walking the shoreline of the
Metlakatla Indian Community during an internship with the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found a shell
of a known menace in the U.S. — the European green
crab...Within a month and half, more than 80 live green crabs
had been trapped along the Metlakatla shoreline, Winter said,
making the community ground zero in the fight against the
species in Alaska, though it’s possible other areas of Alaska
have been colonized already.
Intalco
aluminum smelter releasing high levels of sulfur dioxide
Despite curtailment, Ferndale’s Intalco aluminum smelter
continues to exceed safe emission levels of sulfur dioxide, a
respiratory risk, in the region. [T]he plant will need
significant modification to produce “permanent and enforceable
reductions to SO2 emissions” at the facility.
Rising seas could swallow millions of U.S. acres within decades
New research finds an estimated 25,000 properties in Louisiana could
slip below tidal boundary lines by 2050. Florida, Texas and North
Carolina also face profound economic risks.
The northern B.C. pipeline you’ve never heard of — Enbridge’s Westcoast Connector
First approved in 2014, the pipeline would ship up to 8.4 billion cubic
feet of fracked gas every day. Now the company is seeking an extension
until 2029 and applying to amend its route to avoid a Treaty 8 nation
territory at the centre of a court ruling on the impacts of industry.
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