Using a drone to scout for moose is illegal because it violates the principle of “fair chase,” according to New Hampshire Fish and Game.Metro Creative Connection
Berlin police are mum on whether a member of the department convicted last year of using a drone to hunt for moose in Dixville was ever disciplined by the department.
During a one-day bench trial on July 23, 2020, in Lancaster…
Extreme weather and oppressive heat have hit everywhere from the Pacific Northwest to parts of Europe and North Africa. Climate scientists expect more of it.
Visitors at the Colosseum in Rome cool off in front of a fan Thursday.Alberto Pizzolie / AFP – Getty ImagesAug. 15, 2021, 1:30 AM PDT/UpdatedAug. 15, 2021, 12:02 PM PDTByDenise Chow
In a summer already full of extreme weather,it’s the heat waves roasting hundreds of millions of people across three continents that are confirming a grim climate prophecy for many experts.
Sizzling temperatures in the United States and Canada and persistent heat in parts of Europe and northern Africa are creating dangerous health conditions,aggravating droughtsand fuelingwildfires around the world. And it’s this troubling confluence of climate threats that researchers have been warning about for two decades.
“Climate scientists were predicting exactly these kinds of things, that there would…
By:Ben WinslowPosted at12:59 PM, Aug 15, 2021and last updated12:04 PM, Aug 15, 2021
SUMMIT COUNTY, Utah — Investigators confirmed to FOX 13 they have recovered pieces of catalytic converter from the ignition sources of the Parleys Canyon Fire.
The pieces were collected as evidence as authorities continued to search for the vehicle believed to be responsible.
“It was a catalytic converter that sparked a few separate fires along I-80 that eventually grew together to the main portion of the fire,” said Sierra Hellstrom, a spokesperson for the Northern Utah Interagency Fire Management Team.
Witnesses provided fire investigators with a vehicle description, Hellstrom said. The Utah Highway Patrol is assisting with locating it.
The Parleys Canyon Fire has torched hundreds of acres and forced the evacuation of thousands.
If you find yourself tossing more plant-based or whole foods—foods that derive from a plant—into your shopping cart, you’re not alone. Current data shows that the plant-food industry is now a $7 billion market, according to statistics from the Plant-Based Foods Association.
Meals that are based around minimally-processed, animal-free items—fruits, vegetables, whole grains, pulses (beans and legumes), nuts, seeds, spices, and oils—have been linked with a multitude of health benefits. And now, the American Heart Association (AHA) has recently released two research studies that provide further evidence to enjoy more meatless dishes.
Here are four reasons why you may want to consider adding some vegetarian/vegan/flexitarian/Mediterranean/plant-based specialties to your meal plan, and for even more healthy eating tips, be sure to check out our list of The Best and Worst Foods to Eat on a Plant-Based Diet.1
They can reduce your risk of heart disease.
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Following a plant-based lifestyle today may keep your heart healthy down the road. One of the studies published in the Journal of the American Heart Association monitored the eating habits of 4,946 adults between the ages 18 and 30 over a 32-year period. The participants were asked to offer their detailed diet history while the authors rated their food choices on a scale. Beneficial foods (fruits, veggies, beans, nuts, and whole grains) scored the highest while adverse foods (high-fat red meat, fried foods, salty snacks, pastries, and soft drinks) were given low scores.
After taking other risk factors into consideration (such as genetics, smoking, and exercise habits), the volunteers who scored in the top 20% on the long-term diet scale had a 52% less chance of suffering from a cardiovascular condition three decades later. Furthermore, the adults who changed their food choices for the better somewhere between years 7 and 20 of the study were 61% less likely to be diagnosed with a subsequent cardiovascular disease compared to the participants who opted for more adverse foods.
“I am not surprised that consuming more plant-based foods would benefit cardiovascular health,” says Erin Palinski-Wade, RD, a certified diabetes care and education specialist and author of 2 Day Diabetes Diet. She explains that a plant-forward eating pattern not only means that your meals will be low in inflammatory-inducing saturated fats, but it boosts your intake of antioxidants, as well as fiber.
“Eating a diet rich in antioxidants can cool off inflammation—a driver of chronic disease,” she continues. “In addition, diets high in fiber have been shown to have a positive impact on both blood lipids and gut health, which may, in turn, reduce the risk of future cardiovascular disease.”
The second study from the AHA consisted of 123,330 postmenopausal women between 50 and 79 years of age who were not living with heart disease. The females filled out food questionnaires over the course of 15 years where the authors scored based on how closely they followed the Portfolio Diet, a plan that is devised of cholesterol-lowering plant foods (including plant proteins like soy, beans, and tofu, and soluble fiber foods like oats, barley, okra, eggplant, apples, and berries).https://c01f1ddc0a2887f1961cda1d7a0377cf.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
The findings, which were published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, indicated that the women who frequently stuck to the Portfolio Diet were 17% less likely to develop heart failure, 14% less likely to develop coronary heart disease, and 11% less likely to develop any type of cardiovascular disease.
“We also found a dose response in our study, meaning that you can start small, adding one component of the Portfolio Diet at a time, and gain more heart-health benefits as you add more components,” said Andrea J. Glenn, MSc, RD, lead study author and doctoral student at the University of Toronto in a press release.3
They may help keep your brain young.
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Last month, the American Academy of Neurology announced that even minimal servings of colorful, plant-based foods—including strawberries, blackberries, and oranges—could have the ability to reduce the risk of cognitive decline by 20%.
Thanks to certain types of flavonoids (a class of plant compounds that offer powerful antioxidant effects), cognitive impairment was decreased by 24% (seen in those who consumed more red, purple, and blue foods, such as cherries and blueberries) and by 38%—which equates to being three to four years younger than your true age—among the volunteers who ate orange and yellow fruits and vegetables.
“The people in our study who did the best over time ate an average of at least half a serving per day of foods like orange juice, oranges, peppers, celery, grapefruits, grapefruit juice, apples and pears,” said study author Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard, in a press release. “And it’s never too late to start because we saw those protective relationships whether people were consuming the flavonoids in their diet 20 years ago, or if they started incorporating them more recently.”4
They can improve your blood sugar levels…and mood!
For example, fasting blood glucose levels “fell more sharply” among the participants who ate little to no animal-based products while their symptoms of depression “improved significantly.”
“These findings make a lot of sense,” states Palinski-Wade. “If you have elevated blood glucose levels, a plant-based diet can have a positive impact on gut health.” The reason: Numerous plant foods (like onions, garlic, leeks, asparagus, and bananas) are packed with prebiotic fiber, a form of dietary fiber that feeds the “friendly” bacteria that reside in the digestive system.
“The metabolism of these compounds release beneficial short-chain fatty acids, which have been shown to reduce inflammation, along with improving insulin sensitivity, which ultimately improves blood sugar levels,” she explains.
And as a result, avoiding high and low blood sugar swings will help keep your emotions in check, too. “Since blood glucose regulation and gut health can have a direct impact on mood, a diet that balances blood glucose may also lead to improvements in mood,” adds Palinski-Wade.
Don’t be misled by marketing claims that animals are raised in a “stress-free” environment and transported in “comfort.”
This suffering will not be stopped by the police or any company. Only you can stop it—by not paying for it. Avoid all animal-derived foods, even so-called “humane,” “organic,” and “free-range” meat, eggs, and milk. As long as profit is involved, animal welfare always takes a back seat.
Urge Whole Foods and G.A.P. to stop duping consumers with false “humane meat” claims.
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Local youth and volunteers gather in an open field and wait to support firefighters during a wildfire next to the Greek village of Kamatriades, near Istiaia, northern Evia (Euboea) island on August 9, 2021.
New logging cutblocks are imminent in a particularly inappropriate corner of West Fraser Hinton’s forestry tenure area in west central Alberta. Logging operations in fifty-four cutblocks, slated to start next month, will remove mature forests that are critical habitat for the threatened A La Peche southern mountain caribou population. This will eliminate the forests sheltering both sides of a key endangered Athabasca Rainbow trout stream, forests that stretch from Highway 40 right to the edge of the iconic Willmore Wilderness Area. The logging will undermine important caribou and native trout recovery options and will prolong Alberta’s current reliance on controversial annual wolf culls. All of the logging is scheduled to start just ahead of a crucial caribou sub-regional planning process for this area.
Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) and Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) learned of these plans from concerned trappers. The trappers have only seen logging plans for two forestry ‘compartments’ overlapping their Fur Management Area. The cutblocks will remove almost all the remaining mature forest in the Moon Creek area (Map 1). The imminent cutblocks appear to cover a greater portion of the Moon Creek area compared to what Alberta approved for that area for the entire decade of 2016-2026, as per the publicly available approved spatial harvest sequence in West Fraser Hinton’s approved 2017 forest management plan.
Only six percent of West Fraser Hinton’s total tenure area overlaps with ranges of A La Peche and adjacent Little Smoky caribou populations (Map 2). AWA and CPAWS request the Government of Alberta defer new cutblocks in the six percent of West Fraser Hinton’s tenure that overlaps caribou range. This will protect caribou survival options while Alberta continues to develop its promised upcoming caribou habitat plan for this area that complies with the federal Species at Risk Act.
“You’d be hard pressed to think of a worse place to clearcut in Alberta right now,” says Carolyn Campbell, AWA conservation director. “If Alberta can’t pause logging in the six percent of West Fraser Hinton’s tenure area that overlaps with caribou range until its promised sub-regional plan is finished, there is something deeply and drastically wrong with forestry management here.”
“Wolf culls are not an excuse to continue destroying caribou habitat—they are an emergency measure meant to stymie caribou declines while habitat is conserved and restored,” says Gillian Chow-Fraser with CPAWS Northern Alberta, referencing the predator management in A La Peche range ongoing since 2005. “With sub-regional planning just starting now, everything depends on having intact habitat left to manage.”
“The millions of dollars Alberta spent to reclaim the seismic lines, the millions spent to aerial gun the wolves and set poison bait sites…. then to have 54 cutblocks in the same caribou zone? It really seems to fly in the face of any logic…” says trapper Darcy Handy. “Is the government really concerned about saving the caribou?”
The upcoming logging overlaps with the winter range of A La Peche caribou, a range already heavily disturbed and fragmented from forestry and energy activities. By 2017, only 12% of the A La Peche winter range was undisturbed, far below the minimum 65% undisturbed threshold that is required for self-sustaining caribou. As well, Alberta is obliged to maintain enough biophysical habitat (habitat in current good condition) for the near-term survival of the caribou. The dire measure of wolf culls can only be justified as a temporary, last resort measure if it is combined with strong habitat protection and restoration.
Alberta committed in its October 2020 agreement with the federal government to start a planning task force for A La Peche and adjacent Little Smoky caribou in 2021 and to finish a plan that complies with caribou habitat requirements by 2023. These imminent clearcuts will further reduce available older forest critical habitat these caribou need to survive the next few decades. They also further reduce the available options for the upcoming range plans to achieve habitat for self-sustaining caribou.
If you can, AWA asks that you write Alberta Agriculture and Forestry Minister Devin Dreeshen (af.minister@gov.ab.ca) and Alberta Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon (aep.minister@gov.ab.ca) to request that:
Alberta halt imminent clearcuts by West Fraser Hinton that will remove almost all remaining mature forest for threatened caribou and endangered Athabasca rainbow trout in the Moon Creek area from Hwy 40 to the Willmore Wilderness Area;
Alberta defer other clearcuts in the six percent of West Fraser Hinton’s tenure that overlaps caribou range, to protect caribou survival options; and
Alberta finalizes an enforceable land use plan for A La Peche and adjacent Little Smoky caribou ranges that complies with the Species at Risk Act before resuming clearcuts in this part of West Fraser Hinton’s tenure.
For more information: Carolyn Campbell, Alberta Wilderness Association, 403-921-9519 Gillian Chow-Fraser, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, 289-775-3250 Darcy Handy, trapper, 780-933-1150 John E. Marriott, EXPOSED Wildlife Conservancy, 403-688-3851
MAP 1: IMMINENT PROPOSED CUTBLOCKS IN MOON CREEK AREA OF WEST FRASER HINTON FORESTRY TENURE. SOURCE: ALBERTA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION.
MAP 2: A LA PECHE AND LITTLE SMOKY CARIBOU RANGES AND FORESTRY TENURES. ONLY 6% OF WEST FRASER HINTON’S FOREST MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT (FMA) AREA OVERLAPS WITH CARIBOU RANGE. THE YELLOW SHADED AREA OF A LA PECHE CARIBOU RANGE NEAR WILLMORE WILDERNESS PARK (SHADED IN GREEN) IS WHERE THE LOGGING IS IMMINENT. MAP SOURCE: HINTON WOOD PRODUCTS (DIVISION OF WEST FRASER MILLS LTD.), 2015 CARIBOU HABITAT CONSERVATION STRATEGY REPORT, ADAPTED FROM AN ALBERTA GOVERNMENT 2013 MAP.
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AccuWeather’s Melissa Constanzer spoke with research biologist Stephanie Jenouvrier about how impacts to the environment have affected emperor penguins and what the future has in store for them.
Aug. 3 (UPI) — Climate change is accelerating the extinction risk for emperor penguins, scientists said Tuesday.
The penguin species endemic to Antarctica forms colonies on sea ice, which are projected to significantly decline due to ongoing greenhouse gas emissions.
Researchers found that if sea ice declines at the rate currently projected by climate models, the species resiliency, redundancy and representation will be dramatically reduced and almost all colonies quasi-extinct by 2100, according to a new studypublished Tuesdayin Wiley Online Library.
The key findings support federal production of the species under the Endangered Species Act, and the U.S. Fish…
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