Nature and Wildlife Archives - Bluedot Living https://bluedotliving.com/category/nature-wildlife/ At Home on Earth Mon, 11 Dec 2023 16:20:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bluedotliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Bluedot_site-icon-32x32.png Nature and Wildlife Archives - Bluedot Living https://bluedotliving.com/category/nature-wildlife/ 32 32 In California, a Rat Poison Ban Aims to Protect Wildlife https://bluedotliving.com/in-california-a-rat-poison-ban-aims-to-protect-wildlife/ https://bluedotliving.com/in-california-a-rat-poison-ban-aims-to-protect-wildlife/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:26:34 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/?p=15566 Rats aren’t the only ones harmed by rat poison. Rodenticide can be toxic to humans and other animals. California lawmakers have taken measures in the past against these deadly substances and are taking further strides to protect wildlife, children, and pets from rat poison. Assembly Bill 1322, adds diphacinone, a highly toxic anticoagulant rodenticide, to […]

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]]> https://bluedotliving.com/in-california-a-rat-poison-ban-aims-to-protect-wildlife/feed/ 1 Eyes in the Sky: How Environmental Research Can Rely on Drones https://bluedotliving.com/eyes-in-the-sky-how-environmental-research-can-rely-on-drones/ https://bluedotliving.com/eyes-in-the-sky-how-environmental-research-can-rely-on-drones/#respond Wed, 04 Oct 2023 14:02:31 +0000 https://bluedotliving.com/eyes-in-the-sky-how-environmental-research-can-rely-on-drones/ Matt Pickett was an aircraft pilot for NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for twenty years. “I flew a variety of environmental research and monitoring missions,” he says, “everything from polar bear research in the Arctic, to right whale surveys off of the East Coast, to manatee surveys down in Florida.” Now he flies […]

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