Weekly Science Blog Roundup

Roundup• Dot Earth’s Andy Revkin offers a handy re-printing of Bush’s most recent speech on climate change, complete with helpful (and often enlightening) annotations.

• Feeling a little irate about Ben Stein’s new Intelligent Design lovefest, Expelled? Check out this hilarious video parody—you’ll be back to your cheery evolved self in no time.

• Conservation groups have been pursuing “aggressive” tactics to save certain wildlife species by killing off other invasive species with poison. The only problem? They’re killing innocent bystander animals in the process. Somehow, “eradication” and “conservation” don’t sound all that good in the same sentence.

• Framing Science blogger Matthew C. Nisbet offers an interesting analysis of Time’s controversial cover for its new environmental issue.

Obey the speed limit, save a frog: already endangered amphibians are being killed off at alarming rates on the highway.

April 18th, 2008 by Melissa Lafsky in Uncategorized | 0 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

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