By Dave Hurteau

From the Green Bay Press-Gazette:

Advocates for protecting wolves have reached a court-ordered settlement with the federal government that restores protections for gray wolves in the Great Lakes area.

By Chad Love

Don't tell New Yorkers, but  snakes are once again in the news. This time, however, it's not rampaging  rat snakes we must worry about, but a southeast Asian water snake with the fish-catching ability of a tournament  pro.
 
It's called, appropriately enough, the tentacled snake,  and a Vanderbilt University researcher recently documented how this snake  uses its body to - in essence - make fish swim right into its  mouth.

From scientificblogging.com
"I  haven't been able to find reports of any other predators that exhibit a  similar ability to influence and predict the future behavior of their prey,"  says Kenneth Catania, associate professor of biological sciences at  Vanderbilt University, who has used high-speed video to deconstruct the  snake's unusual hunting technique.... "The snake forms an unusual "J" shape  with its head at the bottom of the "J" when it is fishing. Then it remains  completely motionless until a fish swims into the area near the hook of the  "J." That is when the snake strikes.

By Dave Hurteau

From CleanTechnica:

One solution to the world’s water pollution problems could be something you can’t taste, touch, see, smell, or hear.  Especially hear.  Ultrasound, the range of frequencies beyond the limits of human hearing, is starting to emerge as an effective water treatment that is more sustainable than chemical dosing.  Researchers are discovering that ultrasound performs well on algae, and that’s only the beginning.  Ultrasound can remove a variety of pollutants in water, including those that affect the taste of America’s favorite fish, the catfish.

By Dave Hurteau

In 2006 12.5 million people who were at least 16 years old said they enjoyed hunting in America. They hunted a combined 220 million days that year and took 185 million trips, spending a whopping $22.9 billion.

For our amigos down south, it’s a completely different story. It’s tough to get a gun, let alone hunt. Only 7,000 to 8,000 weapons are sold legally in Mexico each year and that includes sales to private security firms.