"Biosecurity Board Asked To Review Bird Flu Research"
"Federal officials have asked a biosecurity scientist panel to broadly review bird flu transmission research for public health concerns."
Source: USA TODAY, 01/12/2012
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"Texas Drought Threatens Whooping Cranes as Food Dwindles"
"The devastating drought in Texas is raising worries that the parched conditions could harm the only self-sustaining flock of whooping cranes left in the wild.
The lack of rain has made estuaries and marshlands too salty for blue crabs to thrive and destroyed a usually plentiful supply of wolfberries, two foods that the cranes usually devour during their annual migration to the Texas Gulf Coast. The high-protein diet is supposed to sustain North America's tallest bird through the winter and prepare it for the nesting season in Canada.
Source: AP, 01/12/2012
"WHO "Deeply Concerned" By Mutated Birdflu Research"
"The World Health Organization issued a stern warning on Friday to scientists who have engineered a highly pathogenic form of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, saying their work carries significant risks and must be tightly controlled."
"The United Nations health body said it was 'deeply concerned about the potential negative consequences' of work by two leading flu research teams who this month said they had found ways to make H5N1 into a easily transmissable form capable of causing lethal human pandemics."
Thursday, January 5, 2012
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"Bioterrorism, Health-Emergency Preparedness Eroding: Report"
Congress' drive to cut spending could increase the threat to US citizens' from bioterrorism as well as more common epidemics, a new study says.
Source: Wall St. Journal, 12/23/2011
"Food Companies Petitioned To Ban New Monsanto GMO Corn"
"Opponents of Monsanto's new genetically modified sweet corn are petitioning national food retailers and processors to ban the biotech corn, which is not labeled as being genetically altered from conventional corn. A coalition of health, food safety and environmental organizations said they have collected more than 264,000 petition signatures from consumers who do not want to buy the corn."
Source: Reuters, 10/28/2011
"Climate Change Is Shrinking Species, Research Suggests"
"Climate change's laundry list of impacts — melting glaciers and rising sea levels, shifts in timing for bird migration and flower budding, a poleward shift of species — just got a new addition: shrinking species."
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Source: Green/NYT, 10/17/2011
"Trouble in Sea Bird Paradise"
"EAST SAND ISLAND, Wash. — It's been a dozen years since the federal government moved thousands of black-capped squawking seabirds here to reduce their diet of endangered fish. Things haven't exactly gone as planned."
Source: McClatchy, 09/07/2011
"Bird Flu Back on the Rise, U.N. Warns"
"Bird flu was in decline -- but health officials warned Monday that it appears to be on the rise again. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) "urged heightened readiness and surveillance against a possible major resurgence" of the virus, which has crossed over from birds to infect 565 people and kill 331 of them since its appearance in 2003."
Source: LA Times, 08/30/2011
"Rhino Horns Put Europe's Museums on Thieves' Must-Visit List"
A rash of rhino horn thefts, "as many as 30 so far this year, have been reported in museums, galleries, antiques dealerships, auction houses and homes across Europe as criminals try to feed a growing demand in China and other Asian countries, where medicine made from ground rhino horns is believed to act as an aphrodisiac and to cure cancer and other diseases."
Source: NY Times, 08/26/2011
"Federal Officials Investigate Eagle Deaths at DWP Wind Farm"
"Pine Tree facility in the Tehachapi Mountains faces scrutiny over the deaths of at least six golden eagles, which are protected under federal law. Prosecution would be a major blow to the booming industry."
Source: LA Times, 08/03/2011
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