Eating sharks’ fins for Chinese New Year is bad luck
OK, we made that up. But so are dozens of customs that purport to usher prosperity and longevity into our lives.
The fact of the matter is this – sharks’ fins do not add any flavour to your soup – it’s the other ingredients that make the soup taste what it tastes like. Stay away from it, and the whole marine eco-system will thank you for it, and you never know, you might be making your own luck by doing just that.
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Singapore is 2nd biggest trader of sharks’ fins.
Q&A: Imperiled Birds on a Warming Planet
January 28, 2011 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter, Tech & Science
A species that is narrowly distributed, either vertically or horizontally, will face much more of a challenge. If temperatures change rapidly, they’ll experience conditions they’ve never experienced in their narrow band. Their entire geographic region could disappear.
Their fate will also depend on how flexible they are in terms of things like foods, and there’s a lot of uncertainty there. The rosy finch feeds on mountain snowfields. If temperatures decline and there are no more year-round snow fields, they’ll have to evolve a new feeding strategy.
via NYTimes.com.
Polar Bear Overseer: Few Tools to Stop Melting Ice
June 27, 2010 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter
Polar bear policy in America can be summed up succinctly: The iconic bears are threatened with extinction, and so far nothing much is being done.
Two years after they were listed under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has taken no major action in response to their principal threat, the loss of sea ice habitat due to climate change.
Read more at ABC News.
