The yangtze dolphin, the "godess of the yangtze"

Well, it's finally happened. The Yangtze river dolphin is unofficially extinct.

This article describes in loose detail how the species had been threatened and was thought to be nearing extinction in 2006. This one explains how it died.

Apparently fishermen who's livelihoods relied on the river had unknowingly been trapping dolphins in their nets, preventing them from surfacing for air and drowning them. The ships that now frequent the Yangtze also had collided with them, killing and injuring them. Pollution of the mighty river also contributed to the extinction.

I'm happy today.

I'm happy today.

Grassroots lobeying is threatened nationally by the fedral government.

Grassroots lobbyists are soon going to have severe restrictions placed on them by the federal government- for no reason. These lobbyists are attempting the impossible- holding the federal government responsible for allowing monosodium glutamate laden products to be marketed without indicating any msg content. Msg is found to cause severe reactions in those allergic or sensitive to free glutamate, the active ingredient of msg.
Here's the homepage of the site above. A few more useful sites: http://www.msgtruth.org/body.htm, http://www.curezone.com/art/read.asp?ID=52&db=6&C0=17, http://www.truthinlabeling.org/nomsg.html,
http://aspartametruth.com/blaylock/, http://www.newstarget.com/020550.html

Cattle

Did you know the cattle industry is largely responsible for endangering African elehants, and rain forest deforestation, specifically in South America? Here's how it works. Cattle ranching requires land for cattle to roam and graze. It also requires land for food to be grown for the cattle to eat, usually soybeans because they're cheap and easy. This means agriculture, which requires water. Enter the African elephant. They have plenty of space left, but it's all dry desert. Less water for elephants means fewer elephants. In South America it is not watered land for elephants that is being developed for ranchers and farmers, but rain forest. At one time it was this beef that was used in Macdonald's all over the world.

CO2 and Deep Sea Coral

This is a link I think everyone should read. Self explanatory but, for the sake of clarification (and redundancy) I'll explain it anyway. Global warming or not, cold water coral is disappearing. Warm water coral i.e. tropical coral has been bleaching for a while now. It was determined that the rate of warming was causing specimens who couldn't adapt to die off. Such would be normal if it weren't occurring so rapidly. That's tropical coral. The stuff in the article is the much rarer deep sea coral. It's a valuable link in deep sea food chains.

Apparently, excess CO2 in the atmosphere doesn't just disappear, it dissolves into the ocean and becomes Carbonic Acid which wafts down to the ocean floor and poisons the rare deep sea corals. Yeah, oops.