This is fascinating.  It’s a summary of what is called the strangest disaster of the 20th century: a natural CO₂ spike from a lake that killed everything in the immediate area, whether cattle or wildlife or people.  Disturbing at best, especially if one considers how much CO₂ we’re dumping into the environment, how full the natural sinks are, and how little monitoring of such things we do.

Birds in the News 84 (v3n11) has all the avian updates from around the globe, so fly on over and peck around a bit.  You never know what you might learn.

Check out this photo of a red squirrel.  How cute is that?

Brood XIII has once again arrived in America.  “Brood XIII. It sounds like a bad horror movie. But it’s actually the name of the billions of cicadas expected to emerge this month in parts of the Midwest after spending 17 years underground.”  I find that totally captivating.  Cicadas have long been one of my favorite bugs with brood XIII being one of my favorite groups.

Carnival of the Dogs is worth a sniff or two, not to mention a little arbitrary digging, so chew through the canine offerings for your fill of bark-a-licous fun.

Carnival of the Cats #165 and Weekend Cat Blogging #102 have so much feline gaiety to offer that you’d be a fool to miss them.

The food recall has has expanded over these last several days.  Meanwhile, the government continues saying the poison will kill cats and dogs but isn’t a concern for humans.  Huh?  Oh, and they still haven’t a clue what’s really killing the fur people.