You just never know what they can recycle. While driving down highway 44 the other day, and after mentioning to my son they’re tearing down these two large “gasometers”, he said they should recycyle them instead. I had jut read an article on them the day before entitled  “Two City/County Landmarks Coming Down” at the Webster-Kirkwood Times by Steve Birmingham.

A couple of weeks later, someone else was apparently thinking about this very same topic. Check this article out over at Inhabitat by Diane Pham entitled “Gigantic Coal Gasometers Transformed into Thriving Communities“. Hmmm…maybe my son is on to something here.

Sincerely-

Green Librarian

On that note, I thought I would mention a few articles on our relationship with water. It can be very precarious.

First up, this article came out on the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and I’m disheartened as I hear very little about the wetlands and how they might be included in the recovery of the region. It’s entitled “Katrinaversary Urges Wetlands Restoration” by Karl Burkart at the Mother Nature Network.

Let’s follow that up with an interview over at Earth Sky entitled “John Goff Describes How Hurricane Ike Eroded Gulf Coast Islands“.

Up north we have this article, “After the Storms, an Island of Calm and Resilience by Eric Sanderson at the New York Times. And if you’re looking for a good read, I would check out Mr. Sanderson’s “Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City”. I admit I haven’t read it but it looks good.

Finally we have this article on the topic of “River Deltas Sinking” at Science Daily via the New Scientist.

Sincerely-

Green Librarian

While I think back to the times I was lucky enough to visit the ocean, I think the next best place to be is near a river. In that sense, I am very lucky as I live (and work) near one of the most amazing rivers around, the Mississippi. So that maybe why I so dislike dams and when I saw this article this morning, I knew it was time to write a post on dams.

First up, this article over at the New York Times entitled “Plan Outlines Removal of Four Dams on Klamath River in Oregon and California” by Jesse McKinley. All I can say is it’s getting closer. Yea!

Next up, this article on another dam gone bad (hopefully before it ever gets built) in “Japan Election Results: Yamba Dam Project Suspended” by Greenz.jp at Treehugger. Again, Yea!

Finally, while some feel the damage to wildlife can be immense due to dams, sometimes they can also hurt people as evident in “Decaying Soviet Infrastructure Shows It’s Era” by Andrew E. Kramer, also at the New York  Times.

Let our rivers go!

Green Librarian

Since the ocean is home to one of my favorite animals, the sea turtle, I thought hey, here are a few articles I’ve compiled on them lately.

This first one is some good news to one of the sea turtles most dangerous foes, man. It’s entitled “Ruling on Longline Fishing Aids Turtles” by Cornelia Dean at the New York Times. It’s about time.

These next three (yes, three) are all about one of our sea turtle friends in particular, the Hawskbill and all written by Rhishja Larson at EcoWorldly. They are “849 Endangered Hawksbill Turtles Rescued in Vietnam“, “Rangers of Indonesia’s Thousand Islands Marine Park Work in Isolation to Monitor Hawksbill Turtle Nests“ and  ”Performance-Based Conservation ProgramHelping Hawksbill Turtles in Nicaragua“.

We also have one article on another sea turtle, this one the Olive Ridley entitled “Brunei Releases Olive Ridley Turtle Fitted with Transmitter“, again by Rhishja Larson at EcoWorldly.

For those of you (like me) who don’t have a favorite, we have one more article for you called “Bahamas Outlaws Killing of All Sea Turtles” . Yes, again at EcoWorldly but this time by Derek Markham.

Finally, a little closer to home,we have just another example of our our friends remain imperiled. The article is “Miami Beach’s Sea Turtles Threatened by It’s People”. It shows us how there is still work to be done to help them.

Sincerely-

Green Librarian

Every now and again, I come across articles that remind me of the Manfish (Jacques Cousteau) and lately I’ve found a couple.

The first one is one that I came across in the New York Times by William J. Broad entitled “Diving Deep For a Living Fossil“. How he loved to dive into caves.

The other article was called “Rare Black Coral Forest Found in Italy, But Location Still a Secret” by Jami Heimbuch at Treehugger. He would be very happy.

Swimmingly-

Green Librarian

I heard at my son’s IEP today how he wanted to write a story about fishing and his summer vacation. On that intro, here are a couple of stories about fishing, the old fashion way, by hand.

The first one is “Still Trout Fishing in America” by Michael Wolcott at the High Country News.

The next day, this article came out. It’s a little more local. It’s entitled “Hand-Caught Catfish Inspires Youthful Memories in Arnold” by Christine Byers at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Oh, if it were only summer again!

Green Librarian

Here are a few of the solutions being tossed about. Besides cutting our planets emissons of course.

A couple of the most talked about are in the articles “Save Forests, Wetlands to Fight Climate Change: Study” by Madeline Chambers over at Reuters via Scientific American and “Geoengineering Schemes Shouldn’t be Dismissed Out of Hand, Scientist Say” at the Grist.

 A couple of the less discussed ones are in the articles “Does Pollution Actually Fight Global Warming?” by Lea Bogdan at Inhabitat and “Global Warming Versus the Volcano: Could Eruptions Slow Climate Change?” Brian Merchant at Treehugger.  Definitely food for thought.

Finally, I guess those ideas don’t pass the mustard, we should start looking to the sun with articles like “How Sunlight Controls Climate” by David Biello at  Scientific American and “Small Fluctuations In Solar Activity, Large Influence On Climate” at Science Daily.

Until the sun comes up again-

Green Librarian

Okay, I’m a day late and a dollar short. I will post the possible answers by scientist tomorrow. Work, family and school will do that to you. Not necessarily in that order.

This first article talks about how climate change is affecting our neighbors. It’s entitled “Weird Ways Global Warming is Changing Animal Populations” by Naturally Savvy at Treehugger.

Meanwhile, over from our oceans we have “Global Warming Warps Marine Food Webs” by Erik Stokstad via the Environmental News Network.

And if that’s not enough, talk to the people from the tiny village of Tuktoyaktuk in northwest Canda. Or just read about them in “Residents of Tiny Town live on the Front Line of Climate Change” over at Mother Nature Network by Charles S. Hanley.

Scarry Stuff!

Green Librarian

It took all summer but the humidity is still alive and well in St. Louis. With the weather on my mind and the climate change conference in Copenhagen, here are a few articles for your casual reading.

First up, a topic of hot debate is brought up in this first article entitled “Arctic Geological Record Correlates Warming to Man” by Thomas H. Maugh II at the L.A. Times via the Environmental News Network.

Then there was this article at National Geographic that points to the same topic. It’s entitled “Next Ice Age Delayed by Global Warming, Study Says” by Christine Dell’Amore.

Finally, here are two more articles on climate change that have been published lately entitled “Long-Term Cooling Trend in Arctic Abruptly Reverses, Signaling Potential For Sea Rise”  at Science Daily and “Artic May Be Changed Forever, Study Finds” by Andrea Thompson at Live Science.

Tomorrow I’ll post a couple of articles on some of the consequences scientist are seeing from climate change and Friday some articles on possible solutions being offered.

Sincerely-

Green Librarian

I came across this first article last week and thought I would post it (along with a couple of other nice feel good articles on some of our neighbors). The article and slide show is “Lost World of Fanged Frogs and Giant Rats Discovered in Papua New Guinea” over at the Guardian.

Next up, another slide show on “A Decade of New Species in the Himalayas” by Katherine Harmon at Scientific American.

Finally, this article actually came up first on the topic over at entitled “3 New Species Found in Underwater Cave in Canary Islands” by Zachary Shahan at EcoWorldly.

Yea!

Green Librarian