For Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Goose Eggs May Help Polar Bears Weather Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215111303.htm

Fresh bird flu outbreak in India

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7784947.stm

Decline in Scotland's corncrakes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7784737.stm

Crex crex

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corncrake

Hawaii's Bird Family Tree Rearranged

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081211121827.htm

Time: Mapping the rats in New York City

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1866594,00.html

Rare New Mexico fish to swim free in Texas

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081216/ap_on_sc/endangered_minnow_release;_ylt=Aoie_Q2j_NxI3jXFtUAEPxSs0NUE

Hybognathus amarus

http://fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6121

Ocean Fish Farming Harms Wild Fish, Study Says

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215091017.htm

Toxic Brown Recluse Spiders Pose Danger As They Look To Move In For The Winter

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215121557.htm

Loxosceles reclusa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider

Tiny Ecosystem May Shed Light On Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215121555.htm

The big melt: 2 trillion tons of ice gone since '03

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28249708/


Rise in CO2 'affects jumbo squid' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7783971.stm

Pesticides In Fruit-based Drinks Outside U.S.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215151003.htm

China bans lye, boric acid as food additives

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28241158/