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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photo: Mandy / Creative Commons The following is a guest post from Skeptical Science by Dana Nuccitelli A "mass extinction" event is characterised as a period during which at least 75% of the Earth's species die out in a period of a few million years or less. In the past 540 million years, five such mass extinction events have ...
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Image: Green Mountain Coffee Green Mountain Coffee announced a partnership today with USAID and Fair Trade USA that in theory will build upon fair trade certification to promote biodiversity and environmental education in the coffee-growing communities of Brazil. It's called the Sustainable Sourcing Partnership Project and in addition to promoting organic practices, it's "designed to support Fair Trade certification ...
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Photo: Burrard-Lucas.com Penguins lining up for a shower? Bring on the cute overload. We also have a set of rare baby mountain gorilla twins, the shocking story of 82 whales stranded, happy pigs freed from a factory farm, the ironic death of a gambler at a cockfight, and more. View post: The Week in Animal News: Penguins Showering, 82 Whales ...
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Image credit: CllrPhillipBooth There's no doubt about it, we Brits love potatoes. Lloyd has already marveled at the celebration of "Potato Day" , and Bonnie followed up with details on how gardeners across the country gather to marvel at the diverse range of potatoes from around the Globe (over 7000 varieties exist world-wide!). Now, at last, we have video ...
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Image: Rights and Resources A new report from the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) has some good news and bad news. The good: recognition of land and resource rights for indigenous populations has been on the rise in recent years, but the bad: that increase stagnated last year, despite new governmental commitments, at least on paper, to support such ...
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Screenshot: The Telegraph For what is believed to be the very first time, researchers have captured the behavior of a female chimp mourning her recently deceased 16-month-old child, detailing how non-human primates respond to death. We also have the sobering story of sled dogs slaughtered, the world according to a cockroach, bald eagles in love, people living with animals, ...
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Photo: Saint Louis Zoo Awww. We have a new black rhino. But that's not the only news from the animal kingdom this week: We also have a tiger who tried to check into a hotel, a brand-new leopard, beavers helping bats, and more in The Week in Animal News. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger More here: The Week ...
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Photo via IFAW Animal smugglers will go to outrageous lengths to get their illegal bounty past officials -- so it's nice to hear about animals that are able to return to the wild after their ordeal, like eight gyrfalcons who were recently released back to the wild after being seized by customs officials in Moscow. Read on for more ...
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Photo: brewbooks / CC A team of botanists have unveiled a new research tool which aims to settle one of the field's most basic of complications; there are some 375,000 plant species on Earth, but they're known by a whopping 1.25 million names. To help ease the taxonomic disparity and consolidate the world of botanical studies, an international team ...
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Photo credit: Osaka University via Discovery News Mice that tweet like birds? Yes, they now exist in Japan. See how these new musical rodents could mean big advances in science, and then check out the rest of the week's animal news: birds going extinct and other birds making a comeback, animals with strange noses, daring deer rescues, and more. ...
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Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher. Here is the original post: Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D ...
