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Nature and the Environment

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    White-Nose Syndrome Confirmed in Missouri Bat Population

    The Missouri Department of Conservation knew it was coming, but now it's official: White-Nose Syndrome has been confirmed in a population of bats in an undisclosed Missouri cave. In 2010, symptoms were spotted on a little brown bat in Pike County, and five gray bats also showed symptoms in a public ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Michelle Higgins and Anthony Higgins, Sr: St. Charles Couple Hoarded Reptiles, Lived in Filth

    ​A St. Charles couple kept 157 snakes and lizards in their split-level rental property, as well as at least 1,500 live mice to feed them, and one dog. The snakes were housed in clean cages -- the problem was all the animal waste, which the couple, Michelle Higgins and Anthony Higgins, Sr., did not ... More >>

  • Film

    February 2, 2012

    It's the actors who need rescued in trapped-whale saga Big Miracle

    ​A St. Charles couple kept 157 snakes and lizards in their split-level rental property, as well as at least 1,500 live mice to feed them, and one dog. The snakes were housed in clean cages -- the problem was all the animal waste, which the couple, Michelle Higgins and Anthony Higgins, Sr., did not ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 8, 2011

    March of the Penguins

    ​A St. Charles couple kept 157 snakes and lizards in their split-level rental property, as well as at least 1,500 live mice to feed them, and one dog. The snakes were housed in clean cages -- the problem was all the animal waste, which the couple, Michelle Higgins and Anthony Higgins, Sr., did not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Area Wolves Seek Transportation for the Holidays

    This holiday season while families gather and write down their Christmas lists, Rachel Broom, director of development at the Endangered Wolf Center (6750, Tyson Valley Rd, Eureka) will continue her search for transportation for the 42 wolves, wild dogs, and foxes that call the center home. Located ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2011

    Swimming the River des Peres: Daredevil Affects EPA Policy on St. Louis River

    This holiday season while families gather and write down their Christmas lists, Rachel Broom, director of development at the Endangered Wolf Center (6750, Tyson Valley Rd, Eureka) will continue her search for transportation for the 42 wolves, wild dogs, and foxes that call the center home. Located ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Hercules Agrees to $245K EPA Fine Over Clean Air Act Violations

    ​A chemical manufacturing plant in Louisiana, Missouri, just north of St. Louis, failed to properly monitor for leaks of hazardous air pollutants, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency charges -- leading to a $245,521 fine. The settlement was filed in federal court this morning, four years ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Mr. Popper's Penguins and Chill Frozen Yogurt

    Robin WheelerCoffee and chocolate frozen yogurt topped with Valrhona chocolate shavings at Chill.​ What screams summer movies more than a penguin farce that takes place during a Manhattan winter? Perhaps Mr. Popper's Penguins was meant to mentally cool us while we watch a bunch of misplaced ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Arizona Wildfires Threaten Missouri-Raised Mexican Gray Wolves

    Photo courtesy of Regina MossottiThe Arizona wildfires might have the power to impact almost half the population of Mexican gray wolves living in the wild. These one-month-old pups live at the Endangered Wolf Center in Eureka.​Look at those faces. Outside of a moon scene on a novelty T-shirt o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Cicada Cuisine: Six Ways to Cook the Critters

    Wikimedia CommonsYummy cicadas​ Sick of cicadas? You can lower their population by eating them. Oh, come on. People all over the world eat insects without getting grossed out. With rising food prices, the U.S. shouldn't be so quick to poo-poo cheap sources of protein. And considering all the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    How To Survive a Mountain Lion Encounter

    funnyaussiesigns.comYou, too, can survive a mountain lion encounter.​Another mountain lion was confirmed in Missouri this week. The Department of Conservation concluded Wednesday that paw prints photographed April 20 in Macon County in north-central Missouri were almost surely those of a cougar. F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    The Perfect Mother's Day Gift (For Those Who Despise Mom's Special Day)

    Behold your nose. The UMSL corpse flower!​We know how it is. You love your mother, but deep down you harbor a true resentment for her special day. For you, Mother's Day is the worst kind of made-up holiday, requiring you to either present Mom with something mawkishly sentimental or face the conseq ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Missouri Congressman Wants to Kill Funding for Climate Change

    Luetkemeyer: Insert tinfoil hat above.​Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-9th District) is proud of his view that global warming is a myth. So proud, in fact, that last weekend he attached a provision onto a budget bill that would ban the United States from funding the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 30, 2010

    Hot Enough For You?

    Luetkemeyer: Insert tinfoil hat above.​Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-9th District) is proud of his view that global warming is a myth. So proud, in fact, that last weekend he attached a provision onto a budget bill that would ban the United States from funding the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Doe Run Settles with EPA: Lead Company to Close Herculaneum Smelter, Spend Millions

    Photo: Jennifer SilverbergDoe Run smelter in Herculaneum.​The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that St. Louis-based Doe Run -- North America's largest lead producer -- has agreed to spend approximately $65 million to correct violations of environmental laws at ten of its lead mining ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Study Confirms Orangutans Lazier Than the Laziest Human You Know

    Orangutan at Rest: How very stereotypical.​That orangutan you see at the zoo doing nothing but sitting on its rump staring at you (no matter how hard you bang on its plexi-glass cage), is indeed as lazy as you thought. According to a new report penned by anthropology professor Herman Pontzer at Wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    St. Louis To Begin Curbside Recycling Citywide, Part of Paid Trash Collection

    Coming to a neighborhood near you!​Just got off the phone with a couple of city officials who tell Daily RFT that St. Louis is indeed going forward with curbside recycling. The recycling service will be part of the new pay service for trash pickup that the city is implementing to offset budget sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Jonathan Katz: Wash U Prof Tapped By Obama to Solve Gulf Oil Crisis is "Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist"

    Image sourceJonathan Katz describes himself as "a homophobe and proud"​Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz is part of a five-man team of the nation's "best scientific minds" assembled by the Obama administration to help BP stem the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. He' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Global Warming & Meteorologists: A "Hot" Topic?

    reedypress.comCorrigan says everything in Missouri is political, even the weather. ​Is global warming real?Finally, somebody has asked the experts. Thank you, Don Corrigan, editor and co-publisher of the Webster-Kirkwood and South County Times newspapers. In his new book, Show Me Nature's Wrath, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    St. Louis Zoo Replaces Dead Polar Bears with Electronic Proxies

    Okay, so the story in today's business section of the Post-Dispatch is mostly about how a company that sells holiday decorations is opening an office in downtown St. Louis. (Yes, exciting!)But the real news is the photo (below) that accompanied the story.Post-Dispatch, Section B1, 11/13/2009​If yo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2009

    Tree Time

    Okay, so the story in today's business section of the Post-Dispatch is mostly about how a company that sells holiday decorations is opening an office in downtown St. Louis. (Yes, exciting!)But the real news is the photo (below) that accompanied the story.Post-Dispatch, Section B1, 11/13/2009​If yo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2009

    Cold Hard Facts

    Okay, so the story in today's business section of the Post-Dispatch is mostly about how a company that sells holiday decorations is opening an office in downtown St. Louis. (Yes, exciting!)But the real news is the photo (below) that accompanied the story.Post-Dispatch, Section B1, 11/13/2009​If yo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2009

    Happy Earth Day

    Okay, so the story in today's business section of the Post-Dispatch is mostly about how a company that sells holiday decorations is opening an office in downtown St. Louis. (Yes, exciting!)But the real news is the photo (below) that accompanied the story.Post-Dispatch, Section B1, 11/13/2009​If yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    No One Saw This Coming: PETA Urges Zoo to Close Polar Bear Exhibit

    flickr.com/photos/79947165@N00The zoo's polar bear confines.The other day we noted how the Saint Louis Zoo's last polar bear, Hope, died this week from cancer at the age of 23. Now today...wait for it...that's it...just a second...more...okay, here it comes...PETA announced that it is urging the zoo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Otter in Mourning

    The River Otter Journal, Fall/Winter 2008Splash, Slide and Chambers in happier days.A moment of silence, please, for Splash the otter, who died three months ago at age ten after an infection from an abscessed tooth spread to his heart. And another moment for his brother and littermate Slide, who sti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Isn't It Time the Saint Louis Zoo Rethinks Its Position on Elephants?

    www.helpelephants.comThis morning's Post-Dispatch has a rather alarming story buried back on page D3. Another of the Saint Louis Zoo's elephants has been diagnosed with a potentially deadly strain of herpes. According to the daily, the two-year-old Asian elephant Maliha is currently showing no sympt ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2009

    Fancy Birds

    Long walk

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    Elephant Treament Lands Saint Louis Zoo in "Hall of Shame"

    This just in from the In Defense of Animals organization: Our very own Saint Louis Zoo has landed in the "Hall of Shame" for the confinement and treatment of its elephants. Visitors to the zoo over the past few years may have noticed a foot brace on Clara (an elephant that was euthanized in 2007 at ... More >>

  • News

    July 30, 2008

    Look Out Below!: Arborists from around the world descend on Forest Park for the International Tree Climbing Championships

    This just in from the In Defense of Animals organization: Our very own Saint Louis Zoo has landed in the "Hall of Shame" for the confinement and treatment of its elephants. Visitors to the zoo over the past few years may have noticed a foot brace on Clara (an elephant that was euthanized in 2007 at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2008

    Stop the Flooding: Eat a Muskrat!

    This just in from the In Defense of Animals organization: Our very own Saint Louis Zoo has landed in the "Hall of Shame" for the confinement and treatment of its elephants. Visitors to the zoo over the past few years may have noticed a foot brace on Clara (an elephant that was euthanized in 2007 at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2008

    Stop the Flooding: Eat a Muskrat!

    This just in from the In Defense of Animals organization: Our very own Saint Louis Zoo has landed in the "Hall of Shame" for the confinement and treatment of its elephants. Visitors to the zoo over the past few years may have noticed a foot brace on Clara (an elephant that was euthanized in 2007 at ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 23, 2008

    Malcolm eats a tin of armadillo. Hmmm, it tastes like salmon mousse.

    This just in from the In Defense of Animals organization: Our very own Saint Louis Zoo has landed in the "Hall of Shame" for the confinement and treatment of its elephants. Visitors to the zoo over the past few years may have noticed a foot brace on Clara (an elephant that was euthanized in 2007 at ... More >>

  • News

    April 9, 2008

    RFT readers show their deep admiration for skunks.

    This just in from the In Defense of Animals organization: Our very own Saint Louis Zoo has landed in the "Hall of Shame" for the confinement and treatment of its elephants. Visitors to the zoo over the past few years may have noticed a foot brace on Clara (an elephant that was euthanized in 2007 at ... More >>

  • News

    March 26, 2008

    Green Teams: The Cardnials scramble to join the ranks of the environmentally conscious

    This just in from the In Defense of Animals organization: Our very own Saint Louis Zoo has landed in the "Hall of Shame" for the confinement and treatment of its elephants. Visitors to the zoo over the past few years may have noticed a foot brace on Clara (an elephant that was euthanized in 2007 at ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 27, 2008

    Frog-gone It!

    This just in from the In Defense of Animals organization: Our very own Saint Louis Zoo has landed in the "Hall of Shame" for the confinement and treatment of its elephants. Visitors to the zoo over the past few years may have noticed a foot brace on Clara (an elephant that was euthanized in 2007 at ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 13, 2008

    Malcolm never saw a frog’s leg he couldn’t keep down, until...

    This just in from the In Defense of Animals organization: Our very own Saint Louis Zoo has landed in the "Hall of Shame" for the confinement and treatment of its elephants. Visitors to the zoo over the past few years may have noticed a foot brace on Clara (an elephant that was euthanized in 2007 at ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 6, 2008

    Dried Weaver Ants With Eggs

    Weaver ants are a tad dry for Malcolm’s discriminating palate, but the Democratic presidential primary provides plenty to chew on.

  • Dining

    January 23, 2008

    Jin Yang Silkworm Pupa

    This week: Silkworm pupa out the Jin Yang.

  • News

    July 25, 2007

    Buzzkill

    See all those little suckers? Did you know that they're an invasive species and a linchpin of modern agriculture? That they're dying off by the million and no one's sure why?

  • Dining

    April 18, 2007

    Sylvilagus Floridanus (Eastern Cottontail)

    Webster Groves

  • Calendar

    March 21, 2007

    Flocka Alpaca

    Webster Groves

  • Dining

    January 10, 2007

    Roland Smoked Sliced Octopus

    $1.99
    DiGregorio Market
    5200 Daggett Avenue

  • Film

    November 15, 2006

    Dance of the Penguin

    That whole talking animal genre? Let's be done with it.

  • News

    April 26, 2006

    Garden of Good and Evil

    Criticism sprouts over the new attraction for kids at the Missouri Botanical Garden

  • News

    March 22, 2006

    Letters Column

    Week of March 23, 2006

  • News

    February 22, 2006

    Trash Talk

    St. Louis is way behind the recycling curve. Don't expect that to change.

  • Film

    July 6, 2005

    Miracle on Ice

    The life of the emperor penguin isn't easy, but it might make yours seem better

  • Film

    May 25, 2005

    Animal Crackers

    In Madagascar, the wild things romp, then roam

  • News

    January 26, 2005

    Flower Power

    Nearly 900 botanists are working to chronicle our biological heritage. And boy are they a wacky bunch.

  • News

    December 8, 2004

    Save the Amshack

    We lament the impending doom of our beloved train-trailer, talk to a guy with some great squirrel recipes and go to jail. Plus: Can taking Communion give you the flu?

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