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Category: Wildlife Resources
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I just finished reading Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast. Here's my book review (from the view of an Environmental Economist of course). The Fishermen and the Dragon tells the true story of the evolution of the Texas Gulf Coast crab and…
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Warning: NSFW (Unless you work at a University and part of your job is to watch stuff like this and post it on a blog). The highlights of this have been around all week, but most of the clips are just Bill Nye the Science Guy saying "motherf***ers. But this segment on Last Week Tonight…
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From NBC.com: This community voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. But now his immigration changes are killing its livelihood — legendary crabs that are a mainstay of the local economy and a regional delicacy. For decades, Hoopers Island, known for its crabbing industry, has relied on a federal seasonal work program — known as H-2B visas…
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Just got around to reading the Hsiang et al piece in Science on the inequitable economics impacts of climate change. Here's the abstract: Estimates of climate change damage are central to the design of climate policies. Here, we develop a flexible architecture for computing damages that integrates climate science, econometric analyses, and process models. We…
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…we're both college professors, and we both hate snakes: Get ready to update your nightmares. A scientist from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has discovered that a species of snake, the Cuban boa, hunts in groups, and through teamwork improve their chances of catching prey. It's the first time that reptiles have been observed to…
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Here's the full quote: "This is definitely human impact, we're in the sixth mass extinction. There's only been five before this and we're definitely in the sixth," WWF conservation scientist Martin Taylor told CNN." …and here's more of the story: More than two thirds of the world's wildlife could be gone by the end of…
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Tired of presidential politics? Here's a local (Florida) issue that could have interesting national and international impacts: The main focus of this election has been the presidential race, but so many other things will be on the ballot Nov. 8. In the Florida Keys, local voters will be asked whether they are in favor of releasing genetically…
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This study: Liu, Xiangping, Laura O. Taylor, Timothy L. Hamilton, and Peter E. Grigelis. "Amenity values of proximity to National Wildlife Refuges: An analysis of urban residential property values." Ecological Economics 94 (2013): 37-43. Abstract. This research quantifies the property value benefits of National Wildlife Refuges near urban areas on the eastern coast of the U.S.A.…
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From EcoWatch: The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) has added seven bee species to the endangered species list, a first for bees. Native to Hawaii, these yellow-faced bees are facing extinction due to habitat loss, wildfires and invasive species. … The listing comes just a week after the USFWS proposed listing another bee, the…
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