Global Change Symposium Online

The New York Botanical Garden had an excellent symposium on the effects of climate change and CO2 enrichment on land and ocean. You can see all of the talks on-line as a web-cast. Check out Al Gore's talk, and also Elizabeth Kolbert's. One of the more chilling discussions was on oceanic acidification and its potential effects on marine food chains.

A fish on a dish

There was a great opinion piece in today's New York Times by Paul Greenberg on the ethics of keeping versus releasing large game fish. His opinion: we should only eat fish that are low on the food web.