File photo of a hunter. There is no relation between the photo and the two fatal accidents that occurred last year.Image: Sauli Antikainen / Yle
State forest agency Metsähallitus has proposed the tightening of restrictions on hunting in some of Finland’s national parks following two fatal accidents last year.
In one incident, a 30-year-oldmountain biker diedafter being hit by a bird hunter’s gunshot in Urho Kekkonen National Park in October.
The agency’s Lapland Regional DirectorJyrki Tolonentold Yle that the measures could be introduced in areas that are particularly popular with hikers and other outdoor sports enthusiasts.
“We are not even proposing a total ban on hunting in national parks. Not very many [hunters] would even go to these tourist areas to…
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TUCSON (KVOA) – A local puppy is on the road to recovery after the stray dog was recently found with a trap clamped on its leg.
According to a post shared on Pima Animal Care Center’s Twitter Monday, the Pima County Animal Protection Team received a report about a stray dog with “something clamped on its leg.”
When the animal protection officer arrived the scene, she identified the object clamped to the dog’s leg as a trap. She then carefully transported the pup to the clinic.
PACC’s medical team then carefully removed the trap from the dog.
Fortunately, PACC said X-rays revealed that no bones were broken by the trap. Officials say the dog only sustained a minor injury to the surface of its skin.
As parts of the Western US emerge from one of the driest winter seasons on record, the expectation of yet another summer of wildfires will be familiar to many.
Scientists, in fact, are already issuing warnings of an increased risk of wildfires in places such asCaliforniafor 2021, and other parts of the Western US, asthe San Francisco Chroniclerecently reported.
The region, where wildfires are increasingly common, is ripe for wildfires following a winter with extremely dry conditions – and reportedly the third worst ever seen.
And it could for a single reason – what is being described by scientists as the second worstdroughtfor 1,200 years.Scientists Begin Studying ‘The Year Of The Quiet Ocean’PauseNext video0:00/ 0:00SettingsFull-screen
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Moscow — Russia warned the United States on Tuesday against sending warships to the Black Sea, urging American forces to stay away from the annexed Crimean peninsula “for their own good” as the situation along Ukraine’s border caused increasing concern in the West. The U.S. Secretary of State, meeting with Ukrainian and NATO officials in Brussels, made it clear that the Biden administration, along with its allies in Europe, has Ukraine’s back and considers Russia’s ongoing military buildup in the region “very provocative.”
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday that Washington had informed Ankara that two U.S. warships would pass through Turkish waters this week to be deployed in the Black Sea. The deployment would come amid a significant escalation of the conflict in eastern Ukraine between Russian-backed separatists and Ukraine’s forces, which have U.S. and European support.
Hostilities first flared in 2014 when Russia unilaterally annexed Crimea — a peninsula that sticks out into the Black Sea and is home to a Russian navy base — away from Ukraine, drawing condemnation from the Western world and a series of sanctions.
“There is absolutely nothing for American ships to be doing near our shores,” Ryabkov said, warning there was a very high risk of unspecified incidents if U.S. military hardware were to be positioned in the Black Sea.
“We warn the United States that it will be better for them to stay far away from Crimea and our Black Sea coast,” Ryabkov was quoted as saying. “It will be for their own good.”
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby declined during a regular press briefing on Friday to confirm the Turkish government’s statement that U.S. warships were being sent to the Black Sea. He noted that the U.S. “routinely” operates in the Black Sea, but said he wouldn’t “speak to operations.”
Ukrainian servicemen hold a position on the frontline with Russia backed separatists near small city of Marinka, Donetsk region on April 12, 2021.STR/AFP/GETTY
The current escalation has added strain to already tense U.S.-Russian relations. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Russia against aggressive actions in an interview aired over the weekend, saying any aggression in Ukraine would have consequences.
Ryabkov responded on Tuesday, accusing the Russian “adversary” of trying to undermine Russia’s position on the international stage. He reiterated Russia’s readiness to defend the interests of its citizens, and ethnic Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was preparing itself in the event any new sanctions should be imposed on Moscow by the U.S. or its global partners.
A Shmel-class gunboat of the Russian Navy’s Caspian Flotilla sails past a cruise ship on the Don River during the inter-fleet move from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, April 13, 2021.SERGEY PIVOVAROV/REUTERS
Meanwhile, Russia has continued to move forces into both Crimea and the region along its border with Ukraine. The Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday that 15 warships and vessels of the Caspian Flotilla had been sent to the Black Sea as part of previously announced military exercises.
Ukraine said earlier this week that Russia had already massed more than 40,000 troops along its border, and at least 40,000 more in Crimea. Russia says the troop buildup is part of exercises, and has stressed that its forces will go where they want, when they want on Russian territory.
“Very provocative action”
Top U.S. officials are in Europe this week, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Blinken. Austin announced during a stop in Germany on Tuesday that the U.S. was going to deploy an additional 500 troops to that country.
When asked if the move was meant as a message to Russia, he said it was “a sign to NATO” of the U.S. commitment to the transatlantic alliance, and of the firm commitment to Germany. Under President Donald Trump, Washington said it would withdraw thousands of the American forces who’ve been stationed in Germany for decades. That decision was suspended by the Biden administration, and now the force is set to grow.
Blinken, meanwhile, was in Brussels, meeting NATO partners, and he met separately with his Ukrainian counterpart to discuss the standoff with Russia.
“The United States stands firmly behind the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and I’m her to reaffirm that with the foreign minister today,” Blinken said. “That’s particularly important in a time when we’re seeing, unfortunately, Russia take very provocative action when it comes to Ukraine. We’re now seeing the largest concentration of Russian forces on Ukraine’s border since 2014. That is a big concern not only to Ukraine, but to the United States and indeed to many of our allies and partners.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) meets with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (L) in Brussels on April 13, 2021.JOHANNA GERON/POOL/AFP/GETTY
Sitting across from him, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the Russian buildup was “taking place not only along the border of Ukraine, but along the border of the democratic world. For thousands of kilometers to the north and to the east of our border with Russia, there is no democracy. So, this is the struggle that is taking place between democracies and authoritarianism, and in this struggle the support of the United States is absolutely crucial, and deeply appreciated.”
Kuleba thanked NATO, also, and said that warnings already conveyed to Moscow through diplomatic channels, “will be supported by actions that make it very clear for Russia that the price of further aggression against Ukraine will be too heavy for it to bear.”
He said the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations in Brussels, and more broadly the NATO allies at large, would continue discussing ways to ensure stability along his country’s tense border with Russia.https://www.cbsnews.com/embed/video/?v=9363bdaeef1b07118b8bbdbc3a4efbb4#1VZtb%2BQ0EP4rUST4gOqNnfesdEItV8SJUpUrFYgGRU7s7JomcRQ7u1tO%2Fe%2FMJNlt6SGdDsQHumri2DOe92fmg8tHq%2FuGP7rrmjdGnrk7JaR21x9cZWVr3PX9B9c%2B9tJduzst3DNXCVhmWRBFVcpIFgUZCYOyItyvfZIGZSSSjDKeVUDb9of3sn43cdxZe3F7fql%2F%2F7Gll9H3F6IvTPvd1T7845ftr8UjUJtm3ADlSAxpVaMsHx4JV4Jw0nJr5UB0Tcw47NSON0R1ZHwYuOokcFplG9TwbnW7co68DvA63Jl5HV07R15Hdc7dw7BarYBVyAdghEU9Ns0%2FumfRoeKd7lTFm5%2F%2BxSVWtdJY3vbumkVJTH0W%2BBT%2BQM9x4FbpDg7iF59XvJQNCKP%2BOqRwQTN%2Fd2AMhKrlG2kwlgZDsLW2N%2Bvcy72qNJ3cm2AFCwXyrKpWlW5zbzuWuadyb8g9n7Is95gP%2Fyz3giSlrBIpBDyEgPt1CCufEj%2BswySIWBVWde7Z7diWHVdN7sUhPQQxzT3JeSloFscxzbKEiaSOZQQmBWFWRlVVogxGiTzFE0O%2BV02jeGsIyzKfRpQs161%2B7zdg5fZvzWH%2FoTnMT%2Bkh8cEeuEcKGmUxq0qa8ZqnfhSXgQj9kkWcV59vz9OZ2w9yp%2BT%2Bbmj%2BYpjpG1XJFW%2BbzUrp3OM9GLMDG6Yizb1PFVXuLRfnnnuq7Bf37%2Ff71eK82WGzAHBQrRpptTFg%2BtdGj0Ml36ieC2LsIHmrus2XPbfbN1%2F437ZSKI7v%2FgBPdDO8mI8Pio84imJGwyBKEzadMFpcXhdLzp8rUfz87urq3fkPt8X7y5ur828ui9lJQWF5CVqs2mBMj%2Br7%2F1%2F9az1A%2BYP%2BvMewTuWbewfS9nJz9%2F4KKMZX4f%2FIvCXsn4uQU%2FSVedf22gDVCeoB%2BVU1QT3WU0CjlJdRSpIoFYQx6ZNMMJ9QytJappzSkj6jtNzJDtxIUDmsSCUHPlRb6CP3xzNnOvsNspsPsrM%2FobRr3iI2fnNx61wuVNevbrh4nInuP6b6DUpF9spoAecMdJHcICS6DBWTmxbEzAdjD5lvzMlU3jTnVQU7F42uHk4Aae6MHG7H0lSDKqU4kZted0YPR7qtPJy%2FlTUfG4wfPYOfO%2B1ePO8G2VkYnUUZovjAqwdQGl0LcTOVHuS0huwNKJR%2FGkO%2FCGc%2FXC%2FRxRYSw9ZXKBI%2BOlMYW2zQW4uPYYf3BUd7r3Pv%2FERTofhdxdhpx9hXdz89YYPqMeXM53WCI9enwWbFRVkcWtS9HQ83g%2B7lYB%2B%2Fl5ASrh8mUvAoDlgiGEBumDE%2FCHgQu0%2BQH620fOpS4DgrN4%2B4hr2tFnO1yE5MFiypN1UB0Ts5wNxCet2PDR%2FQ7fOYAupD9DATngcDWAI0wOJUQ4ctNIVKN42s5kI8sS0krwUAkChTNHqzkaJQ3RuKuP0y0spcdljwoLQdRsy5AbzZyPMRLBlwCLp3aR0J6B8h4XXGSJjVgqR%2BSUmUsjBJy5iXSYIV8xfWYznwRh54JwbuaPHY6R1%2FQTnNWAnPAhkKKNnID0kYCuhqvOJEChFkKfX9UOCQsbDcjOVbcDdGB%2BYMQkPCAoeFaz9eR%2FEz2XGcGUZjFHf2fOiMM67MyrHagYyB0WYPD0A3R1nj5K7ed85Ga5G7DgfKGYKQshO6rmHesbIzqlbSvBByDB0e2mLZxZI4RWh2YCATHrAYbKpiSsIIOm2ZAFKVPEplLWRaicmBz3xH7x0VgXnLjkOrVYN0AtpjdRQvpHkATJzA8q3coWdcRK%2FNkQBLpcC5GOEG3t8pRNN7d6%2BHRuB1uHk7ywXyeXveXW4AUEJoUTvp7GXpLhg8RS%2BmSVSH9FP4a1%2FA6FHACCi2CMApFOdA1SoAgfDk4dupCaKPS%2BMsgFIOEJObhltsTZMOCxwUqHHx7A78XEQuFKiI5I0aW0z9ftDYcJ%2BPkQFIZIdOhFPhPr2YkF%2BPOR%2F1OVzB1DZl3LGJkdGQslHdA0xWmITYfMxW9bgLRUigF0x9burnNxo0gCAsTpEtgvscyv9UOApYHPXvLpog6JOq%2FvN54OnpTw%3D%3D
While no NATO deployments have been confirmed, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed the alliance was planning to position 40,000 more troops and 15,000 pieces of military equipment close to Russian territory. He didn’t elaborate, but said that “in response to the military activity of the alliance that threatens Russia, we have taken appropriate measures.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said earlier on Tuesday that he was “seriously concerned” by Russia’s deployment of additional forces to the Ukrainian border.
“Russia is now trying to reestablish some kind of sphere of influence where they try to decide what neighbors can do,” Stoltenberg said.
CBSNews.com’s Tucker Reals contributed to this report.
This story originally appeared in Mongabay and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.
As the planet warms, it isn’t just humans who are feeling the heat — trees are too. Rising temperatures are disrupting a primary engine of life on Earth: photosynthesis.
A recent study from Brazil adds to fears that climate change is altering the face of the planet. Literally. Tropical forests could look more and more like deciduous forests or savannas in the future, according to the research based in Brazil’s Cerrado biome. This ecoregion abjacent to the Amazon Rainforest is where savanna, grasslands and forests mingle.
The paper, published in Environmental Research Letters in March, focused on four trees species found in both the Amazonian tropical forests and savanna land: Qualeaparviflora, known as pau–terra in Portuguese; Pseudobombax longiflorum, or the Brazilian shaving-brush tree; Hymenaea stigonocarpa (jatobádoCerrado); and Vatairea macrocarpa, also known as angelim.
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“The article extends present knowledge of heat tolerance to tropical species in particularly hot regions, testing species not tested before,” said Gotthard Heinrich Krause, professor of plant physiology at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.
Krause, who was not involved with the study, noted that the paper underlines how “increased number of extreme heatwaves, often combined with drought stress,” compound the heat stress faced by trees.
The maximum temperatures in the Cerrado region and neighboring forests can reach 45° Celsius (113° Fahrenheit). The area has warmed perceptibly in recent decades, and heat waves that regularly sweep the region are becoming hotter and dryer.
How much a leaf warms depends on how much solar radiation it absorbs and what it loses through conduction and as long-wave radiation. Leaves facing the harsh tropical sun heat up faster than the ambient air around them.
Igor Araújo installing thermal boxes on trees to measure the temperature of leaves.
“Prolonged exposure to heat can induce damage to leaf tissue, compromising photosynthetic efficiency and, consequently, trees’ fitness,” said Igor Araújo, first author of the new paper and an ecologist at the Mato Grosso State University, Brazil.
The disproportionate warming in the Cerrado belt is driven not just by global temperature rise, but also by local deforestation and fragmentation of wooded areas. As pastureland and cropland have eaten away into forests, their cooling effect is becoming muted.
Trees cool themselves and areas around them by transpiring water through the stomata dotting their leaf surfaces. This process, along with evaporation, is also why forested areas induce rainfall. “One single adult tree in the Amazon can transpire up to 1000 L [264 gallons] of water per day, functioning as a natural air conditioner of the environment. This process is called biotic pump, which is reduced by deforestation,” Araújo said.
When faced with scorching heat and dry spells, the pores on leaves clamp shut to conserve water. “This will reduce or prevent transpirational cooling of leaves, causing substantial increases of leaf temperature above air temperature,” Krause said.
The study estimated, for the first time, what temperatures leaves can tolerate. To do this, the authors calculated the temperature at which a critical component of the photosystem breaks down and the temperatures that leaves are experiencing. The difference between the two levels is called the thermal safety margin (Tsm).
Krause said he expected that the temperature at which scientists observe permanent damage to leaf tissue to be higher than what the researchers estimate. This would mean a wider safety net, but it still would not be enough to protect most species considered in the research, given the current pace of warming.
Such a hostile environment is dangerous for leaves and trees. The tree is not shedding leaves as part of a seasonal cycle but rather because they are not performing their function of harnessing energy.
The authors found that in some species, the maximum leaf temperatures are already exceeding this threshold. But if average temperatures rise by even 2.5°C (4.5°F), this will be true for most tree species, they estimate. With a 5°C (9°F) rise, all tree species studied will suffer from leaf burn.
It’s not just tree health that declines; other scientists have shown that heat stress also affects carbon dioxide uptake by trees. According to Krause, there is a reduction in the CO2 absorbed by plants even at temperatures lower than those that short-circuit photosynthesis. “Such reduction will contribute to the reduction in carbon sink of the tropical forest,” he said.
At the moment, savanna species adapted to higher temperatures are doing better than the rainforest species. “Our results thus indicate expected shifts in deciduousness in the future and thus a trend towards savanna vegetation replacing forests in the regions in Southern Amazonia characterized by large patches of deforestation,” the authors write.
What is happening at the Amazon-Cerrado boundary may be a precursor for feverish tropical forests across the world. Unlike humans, these forests won’t have air conditioners or sunscreens to protect them.
Citations:
Araújo, I., Marimon, B. S., Scalon, M. C., Fauset, S., Marimon Junior, B. H., Tiwari, R., … Gloor, M. U. (2021). Trees at the Amazonia-Cerrado transition are approaching high temperature thresholds. Environmental Research Letters,16(3), 034047. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abe3b9
Tiwari, R., Gloor, E., Cruz, W. J., Schwantes Marimon, B., Marimon‐Junior, B. H., Reis, S. M., . . . Galbraith, D. (2020). Photosynthetic quantum efficiency in south‐eastern Amazonian trees may be already affected by climate change. Plant, Cell & Environment. doi:10.1111/pce.13770
It’s here. SB314 “The Wolf Extermination” bill will he heard and voted on Tuesday afternoon, 4/13, in the Montana House of Representatives. It will then have a final hearing and vote most likely the following day before dying or going to Governor Gianforte.
SB314 by Rep. Bob Brown mandates the Montana Fish & Wildlife Commission reduce wolves in our state down to the bare minimum, but no less than 15 breeding pairs in order to avoid re-listing. It enables them to do so by the “most liberal” and unethical methods such as hunting over bait, killing latter stage pregnant wolves, night hunting, night vision scopes, multiple wolves on one tag, and of course indiscriminate cruel traps and snares. One can easily anticipate killing contests inclusive of wolves.
Passage of SB314 will mean ~85-90% of wolves in Montana will have a legal and unjust target on their backs. Yet, they are having no difficulty killing wolves in Montana. Every year they break a new record. This 2020 wolf season was no exception. Hitting a new high, over 325 wolves were reported killed by trapping and hunting. This does not account for poaching, SB200 landowner wolf kills, highway mortality, etc. in which an estimated 500 wolves are killed every year in Montana. Depending on who is talking, Montana’s estimated wolf population is between 800-1200 wolves, or was.
SB314 takes the other trap and kill wolves bills, HB224 Wolf Snaring, HB225 Extended Wolf Season, SB267 Wolf Bounties, passing into law now in our state with Governor Gianforte’s signature and ties them all up in a bow requiring the Wildlife Commission implement these means, methods, and more, to exterminate wolves in Montana….but avoid the Feds.
In response to an email with the data, science, and our objections to SB314 we sent to all Montana Representatives, today, we already heard back from one. Rep. Gunderson, HD1, Libby, Montana. Gunderson Steven <steve.gunderson@mtleg.gov> Tue 4/13/2021 To: Trap Free Montana Public Lands TFMPL Thanks for reminding me of the many reasons to vote for Senator Brown’s bill!!
Steve
We have not received a reply in requesting his reasons.
Call the front desk and leave a message for up to 5 Representatives urging a NO on SB314. 1-406-444-4800
Also today, Tuesday, the 13th, HB367, by Rep Paul Fielder, Senate Fish & Game hearing is this afternoon and we will be testifying against it. They meet at 3pm. HB367 is to amend our Montana constitution making hunting, fishing and trapping a right and the preferred methods to manage wildlife in our state. In 2004, Montana voters overwhelming supported amending the constitution to preserve the opportunity to hunt and fish, not to trap. If this reaches the Senate floor and passes with 34 out of 50 Montana Senators it will go before Montana voters in November 2022.
Do not let up on contacting and urging our Montana Senators to Vote NO on HB367 a significant far reaching Constitutional amendment disastrous to wildlife and that will cost us a small fortune to defeat if it winds up going to the voters.
PUBLISHED TUE, APR 13 202110:00 AM EDTUPDATED TUE, APR 13 202112:40 PM EDTEmma Newburger@EMMA_NEWBURGERSHAREShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via EmailKEY POINTS
More than 300 businesses have called on President Joe Biden to nearly double U.S. targets to reduce planet-warming emissions below 2005 levels by 2030.
The push by leaders from companies like Google, Apple, Walmart and Unilever comes ahead of the global leaders’ climate summit the Biden administration is hosting next week.
The Obama administration set out to cut emissions by up to 28% below 2005 levels by 2025, but former PresidentDonald Trumphalted federal efforts to meet that target.
U.S. President Joe Biden joins a CEO Summit on Semiconductor and Supply Chain Resilience via video conference from the Roosevelt Room at the White House on April 12, 2021 in Washington, DC.Amr Alfiky | Getty Images
Just weeks ago, scientists observed that the amount of smoke spewed from the blaze into the atmosphererivaled that of a great volcanic eruption. Now, researchers say the giant smoke cloud was so immense, it measurably heated the stratosphere for months on end.
In anew studyled by first author and climate modeler Pengfei Yu from China’s Jinan University, scientists simulated the plume’s emergence and evolution, showing the worst documented wildfires in Australian history left a lasting impact on the region’s skies.
“Extreme wildfires can inject smoke into the upper troposphere and even into the…
House Bill 224andHouse Bill 225, brought by Rep. Paul Fielder, R-Thompson Falls, are two of multiple high-profile bills dealing with wolves and trapping that have seen significant debate this session. SB 224 adds snares to the list of legal traps for wolves; previously only foothold traps were allowed. HB 225 extends wolf trapping seasons by two weeks earlier and two weeks later. Unless adjusted by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission, the season will start the first Monday after Thanksgiving and run until March 15.
Brooke Stroyke, a spokesperson for Gianforte, said the governor signed the bills to support “the continuing efforts to manage this species and to balance the concerns of communities across the…
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HONOLULU (KHON2) — A Nanakuli family is mourning the loss of their horse after they say she was attacked by hunting dogs.It is the second known horse attackon Oahu in just two weeks.
Owners are asking pig hunters to properly train their dogs, just like the owners of the horse involved in the incident on Saturday, March 27.
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Patches was a beloved member of the Samson ohana. She had ridden in rodeos, become a grandmother and was pregnant again at 26 years old.
“You can tell where it got stirred up she flipped over reared up, there’s no dig marks, obviously everything is flat there’s flat marks it shows struggle. She jumped the fence here you…
