“Do you have a grove of bamboo that is taking over your property — at least an acre or more?”

The Washington Post reports on the fact that the National Zoo is running out of food for its pandas.

“Photos from the accident site, which happened in the Altai region on January 9, give the initial impression that passengers in the crashed helicopters were hunting for Argali mountain sheep.”

The WWF wants an investigation into the deaths of a party of senior Russian politicians in a helicopter crash. It says they may have been illegally hunting endangered sheep (Reuters).

RIP Arne Naess

The Norwegian philosopher “whose ideas about promoting an intimate and all-embracing relationship between the earth and the human species inspired environmentalists and Green political activists around the world” died on Monday, reports the NY Times.

“Here’s a way to increase the available funding to NIH without increasing the NIH budget: halt funding to NCCAM, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. “

An online attempt to get Barack Obama to stop funding research on alternative medicine has begun (hat tip: Pharyngula).