By Chad Love

A looming worldwide water shortage may force us all to become vegetarians by 2050, according to a new study.

From this story in the (UK) Guardian:
Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world's population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages. Humans derive about 20% of their protein from animal-based products now, but this may need to drop to just 5% to feed the extra 2 billion people expected to be alive by 2050, according to research by some of the world's leading water scientists. "There will not be enough water available on current croplands to produce food for the expected 9 billion population in 2050 if we follow current trends and changes towards diets common in western nations," the report by Malik Falkenmark and colleagues at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) said.

--Chad Love

This one really needs no explanation, except to say that alcohol, Bigfoot impersonators and public highways at night are never a good mix...

From this story in the Daily Interlake: 
A man dressed in a military-style “Ghillie suit” who was attempting to provoke a Bigfoot sighting was struck by two vehicles and killed on U.S. 93 South of Kalispell Sunday night.

“He was trying to make people think he was Sasquatch so people would call in a Sasquatch sighting,” Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Jim Schneider said. “You can’t make it up. I haven’t seen or heard of anything like this before. Obviously, his suit made it difficult for people to see him.”

By Chad Love

Britain's royal coat-of-arms may feature three lions, but that's not cutting any ice with British authorities. They're hunting a lion allegedly roaming the English countryside.

From this story in the New York Daily News:
Outside the idyllic English village of St. Osyth, police are hunting a lion. A small army of officers and tranquilizer-toting zoo experts, along with a pair of heat-seeking helicopters, are spending their Monday combing the woods, ponds, and farmland around the coastal community after a resident spotted what was believed to be a lion lounging in a field of grass. Where such a beast may have come from is anyone's guess; the local zoo says its animals are accounted for, and police have said a local circus isn't missing any either. As of early afternoon, the force hadn't found any paw prints or droppings, but officers said they were treating the sighting seriously, and so too are St. Osyth's 4,000-odd residents.

By Chad Love

If you have a particular North American fish species on your bucket list, you may want to go ahead and catch it now. I mean right now, while it's still here. Because if you wait until you retire, it may not be.

From this story in the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife News Bulletin website:
From 1900-2010, freshwater fish species in North America went extinct at a rate 877 times faster than the rate found in the fossil record, while estimates indicate the rate may double between now and 2050. This new information comes from a U.S. Geological Survey study to be published in the September issue of the journal BioScience. In the fossil record, one freshwater fish species goes extinct every 3 million years, but North America lost 39 species and 18 subspecies between 1898 and 2006. Based on current trends in threatened and endangered fish species, researchers estimate that an additional 53-86 species of freshwater fish may be extinct by the year 2050.