From The Seattle Times:

Puget Sound researchers spot another baby orca

from the earlier article on the same subject:

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Government Denies Requests to Extend Arctic Ocean Leases and Cancels Future Sales

Today, the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) announced that it denied requests made by Shell and Statoil for five-year extensions of Arctic Ocean leases and that it will not hold two scheduled sales in the region. In 2014, Shell and Statoil submitted requests for “suspensions of operations” for their Arctic Ocean leases. If granted, the requests would have extended the expiration of those leases by five years. DOI previously denied a similar request made by ConocoPhillips. Most of the leases held in the Beaufort Sea will expire in 2017, and leases held in the Chukchi Sea will expire in 2020. A map of leases currently held in the U.S. Arctic Ocean is available here.

Chukchi Sea Lease Sale 237 was scheduled to be held in 2016, and Beaufort Sea Lease Sale 242 was scheduled to be held in 2017. Those sales will not be held, and the government is currently considering whether to hold additional sales in the future.

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saw a note about this exhibit in the recent Alaska Airlines mag while traveling – wish I was headed to Anchorage to see it in person!

Florian Schulz: To the Arctic

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Go Indonesia!

From TakePart:
Kill a Manta Ray, Go to Jail

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a vista of potential destruction – and already certain-pollution…

From The Sightline Institute

coal train gorge

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While the outwardly-stated goals are potentially laudable – John Mackey is still a HUGE douche! And the reason those other markets are competing is they smell money. WF is pretty arrogant to think they can run the market just because other competitors are coming in strong…..!

Organic farmers’ relationship with Whole Foods sours over new rating system

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but I’d like to see a shark finning bastid try the ‘jazz hands’ move – just before he gets eaten for good!
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very cool!

http://pmcs.com/about/company/hawk_cam.php

About Our Visiting Red-Tailed Hawks:

A pair of nesting red-tailed hawks first made their home in the decorative framework of PMC’s Sunnyvale headquarters office building in 2013, and they have returned again this year to raise their new family. We are fortunate to have them with us, and thanks to many interested PMC employees we can all now watch them via this streaming live video feed. Please take a moment to visit, ‘like’ and share with others our HawkCam Facebook page: facebook.com/hawkcam.

You can learn more about red-tailed hawks by visiting the red-tailed hawk Wikipedia page or the web sites of the Audubon Society or National Geographic.

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