NewsBlog: Elsevier's open access plan: Advertisers pay Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 10th September 2007 03:55 PM GMT] The New York Times reports today that scientific and medical publisher Reed-Elsevier, which publishes 400 journals, has introduced ''a Web portal, ... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Officials release pygmy rabbit recovery plan Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 8th September 2007 07:33 PM GMT] The US Fish and Wildlife Service has released a draft recovery plan for the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, a subject I wrote about in our June issue. The tiny rabbits -- on average, adults weigh just 400 grams and are only 25 centimeters long -- have been on the Federal endangered species list since 2001. That year, officials were only able to scoop up 30 of them when they searched throughout their native habitat of the Great... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Endangered wolves don't need passports Posted by Ivan Oransky [Entry posted at 7th September 2007 09:36 PM GMT] As Federal agencies and farmers call for removing the gray wolf from the US endangered species list, a member of a species appears to have killed a calf in rural Stevens County, Washington. According to a US Fish and Wildlife Service press release, the kill ''appears to be the first confirmed wolf depredation on livestock in Washington State.'' The kill, which happened sometime... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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