Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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A remote indiginious indian camp found abandoned after developers entered their region in Peru. Photo via Agencia Andina In the 1960s and 70s, there was an oil boom in Peru . Due to restrictions on where developers could explore, the hunt for fossil fuels in the cou... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post here: Oil and ...
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Photo via UC Berkeley A recently published report is exposing some shocking exploitation of the Amazon's natural resources --and this times it... Read the full story on TreeHugger More: Amazon River Water Being Stolen and Bottled Abroad
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photo: Alexander Torrenegra via flickr. Amazongate was a non-story from the outset, a question of sloppy citations rather than sloppy science. In fact a new piece in Tierraamérica which Mongabay is highlighting validates the original IPCC projection about how much of the Amazon rainforest could ... Read the full story on TreeHugger More: Amazon Rainforest Near Tipping Point - IPCC ...
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Precipitation changes and increased forest fires are still a threat... photo: Ygor Olivera via flickr. Another piece of the 2007 IPCC report is coming under scrutiny. In question is a passage saying that 40% of the Amazon rainforest could be wiped out by climate change . The claim was cited to the WWF report "A Global Review of Forest ...
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Photo via Greenpeace While the rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest may be declining, it and other rainforests around the world continue to be cleared at an alarming rate. Figures that are quite alarming, like the fact that 17 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been decimated and 74 million hectares of Indonesian forests were completely destroyed, tend ...
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Fander Falconi, Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador. Photo: Reuters . Fander Falconí, Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador, has resigned due to differences with president Rafael Correa in the issue of the country's plan to protect the Yasuni reservation at the Amazon forest . The president of Ecuador has also set a deadline for the project. If expectations not ...
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Photo via Mongabay While environmental groups and governmental policies are aiming at reducing deforestation and development in the Amazon rainforest to help preserve the world's most diverse terrestrial ecosystem, traditional See the original post: School for Shamans to Save Culture from Extinction
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Photo via Mongabay While environmental groups and governmental policies are aiming at reducing deforestation and development in the Amazon rainforest to help preserve the world's most diverse terrestrial ecosystem, traditional Go here to see the original: School for Shamans to Save Culture from Extinction
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Photo via HummingLion Designs As global temperatures rise , species across the world will have to, quite literally, run to stay alive. According to the latest research , 28.8% of the biomes of the earth will need to migrate at a rate greater than 1 kilometer per year to escape the heat, which is intensifying in a gradient band ...
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Photo via Greenpeace During COP15 earlier this month, Brazil stood out among developing nations for its bold commitments to curbing carbon emissions and reducing deforestation of the Amazon rainforest--and was perhaps the most More here: Deforestation Increased as World Prepared for COP15
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A coffee cup as a plant pot, coke cans for Halloween cape, a detergent bottle as worm harvester or washing tablet net bags for toy storage; these are all things people have done with the packaging they found in ...
Photo via MotorTrend VW's 2011 Touareg Hybrid The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many splashy auto announcements -- Porsche's first ever plug-in hybrid , a new Aud... Read the full story on TreeHugger Originally posted here: Test ...
