Polar bears, grizzlies to merge into one species

Well, this is a major happening on the biodiversity front. Reporter Andy Borowitz has the story. Perhaps there will be some wild video available in time for the 11 p.m. local news show, the one featuring the talking heads of happy news fame.

Preventing an Arctic cold war

This op-ed does a credible job in detailing what the big problem is (climate change) and the stakes (oil and gas principally) as eight-of-so nations start quibbling over who gets what. I foresee massive overfishing in the Arctic, among other faults. In any case, the cold north that greeted the "thing" portrayed by actor James Arness in "The Thing from Another World" is nearly gone and human actions are to blame.