Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-24-2010

• NASA - New Map Offers a Global View of Health-Sapping Air Pollution
  NASA maps particulate air pollution small enough to cause health problems in humans
  (tags: pollution environment map doom)
• England's wildlife areas are failing species, finds government review | Environment | The Guardian
  Current network of protection not working, requires much bigger and stronger protection, which is wholly unlikely given current economic crisis and lack of instant and obvious financial gain from preventing extinctions. Bah.
  (tags: doom ecology conservation news)
• Secret lives of the harvest mice | Science | guardian.co.uk
  Fantastic pictures of a lovely wee beastie
  (tags: photography mice)
• Doctors want drinks to be served in plastic to stop 'glassing' | Society | The Guardian
  I would like to point out that the only time a pub I worked in got done over, barstaff used glasses in self defence. Also this will stop the ancient traditional sport of my native homeland whereby you have to catch a pint glass on your face.
  (tags: news pubs)
• Target for renewable energy now 80 per cent
  Scotland's renewable electricity target 2020 is being raised from 50 per cent to 80 per cent
  (tags: renewables scotland news energy)