by Meg | Mar 14, 2013 | animal, coal, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Science, Travel, wildlife
Being the only Americans in a city of 1.25 million, you tend to stick out a little bit. It just so happened that we caught the eye of a reporter from the Ya’an Daily Newspaper. Over a steaming bowl of Ya’an’s best noodles at Mr. Cheng’s, we...
by Meg | Mar 7, 2013 | Around PDX, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Science
Did you notice the menu change on our front page? Yep – that’s right we’ve blogged about it a couple of times but PDXSeafood will finally be making it’s debut this summer. We’ve partnered with the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood...
by Meg | Mar 4, 2013 | coal, Environmental Impact, Misc., Panda, pollution, Science, Travel, wildlife
Both Meghan and I were approached by a few kids from the local high school and asked if we could come and lecture for a few hours on what we do in China. It was quite a treat to learn about the lives of the students and how they all seem to think that biologist...
by Meg | Mar 4, 2013 | animal, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Science, wildlife
The extreme difficulty in obtaining permits to transfer biological samples back to the United States from China has caused our mercury project to use a lab here in China. We are very pleased to have made contact with one of China’s foremost Methylmercury...
by Meg | Jul 21, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Marine Mammal
I subscribe to Polar Bears International e-newsletter and I loved the latest letter for June that explained why losing polar ice mattered so much for the polar bears. In short: “Polar bears began swimming back to shore last week nearly four weeks ahead of their...
by Meg | Jun 28, 2012 | Around PDX, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact
One of the wonderful scientists on our advisory board, Anne Warner, just sent this around to me and so I thought I’d share. From Anne: “There are so few ways to fund conservation work in this state I want to support this novel approach and help get the...