Minnesota officials ban moose hunting indefinitely, citing a steep decline in the animal?s population. The number of moose has fallen by 52 percent since 2010 ? not because of hunting, the state says, but possibly because of unusually hot summers or the spread of a tick-borne disease. (The moose are now being tracked with G.P.S. collars.) [NBC News]
Researchers have come up with a technique for detecting mercury contamination in water by snapping a photo with a cellphone. [Science Daily]
A new analysis of Australia?s resources suggests that generating electricity from unsubsidized renewable energy is now cheaper than doing so from newly built coal- or gas-fired power stations in that country. [Bloomberg New Energy Finance]
The California Fish and Game Commission votes to recommend endangered species protection for the great white shark along the Pacific Coast. Fewer than 340 are thought to remain in two principal feeding grounds off central California and Mexico?s Baja Peninsula. [Reuters]
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