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: Graeme / Creative Commons Given that there's an ongoing nuclear power plant crisis in Japan and another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, you may have missed this one: An oil spill caused by a ship run around on Nightingale Island in the South Atlantic (part of Tristan da Cunha group of islands) which has resu... Read ...
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Photo: Impy Malting The tiny island of Kapiti, located five miles off the coast of Wellington, New Zealand, is one of the last refuges for a menagerie of wildlife driven to near-extinction elsewhere by invasive species. Since the late 1980s, when all non-native animals were meticulously cleared from the island, it has been designated as a sanctuary, an important ...
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Photo via YouTube Birds of a feather may flock together, but when it comes finding company for a leisurely morning walk, sometimes even a human will do. Every morning at around 8 o'clock, Dominic Ehrler comes to Echo Park, in Los Angeles, to take a stroll around the grounds -- and for the last 9 months or so, he's ...
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An abandoned ferris wheel in Pripyat, Ukraine, near the Chernobyl disaster site. Photo credit: Andrzej Karo? / Creative Commons Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster , research is showing that prolonged exposure to the remaining low-dose radiation has a serious impact on wildlife in the region. New research has found that birds living near Chernobyl have, on average, a ...
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Photo: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times As if the cruelty of pitting of two roosters against each other in a heinous battle to the death wasn't enough to dissuade some people from supporting cockfighting, it turns out that during such events it's not just the lives of the birds put at risk. In a twist of irony, at ...
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Screenshot from YouTube He's a wild bald eagle, untamed and free, able to soar to just about anywhere he wishes -- but the call to take to the open skies is apparently no match for the alluring charms of a lady. For over a week now, the rare bird has been spotted perched in a tree overlooking the enclosure ...
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The white-headed duck, seen here in a breeding program in England, is among the species of birds at risk in Turkey. Photo: Gidzy / Creative Commons . Dozens of starlings in the Karacabey district of Turkey's Bursa province were among the victims of a recent spate of mass ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Original post: Time Running Out ...
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photo: Andrew Currie / Creative Commons It may seem like all the recent mass bird deaths add up to catastrophic numbers of animals killed, but compared to how many birds are killed every year in ones and twos as they collide with buildings, towers, et cetera, it's a drop in the bucket. See the original post here: Buildings & Pets ...
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Image via NASA Using a laser onboard NASA's Icesat spacecraft, University of Idaho scientists have been monitoring and tracking woodpeckers in the northern part of the state. They are interested in woodpeckers because the species is a great indicator on overall forest bird diversity. "They create homes for lots of other species in the forest setting," explained Dr Kerri ...
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Photo via Dmitry Noskoff Poultry workers reportedly wept as they carried out their grim task -- overseeing the death of about 400 thousand newborn chicks by drowning them in water or simply dumping them in rusty barrels outside where they would succumb to the freezing winter air. Around 600,000 more birds, housed at Russia's Krasnaya Polyana poultry farm ha... ...
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"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
Google leads the pack in Greenpeace's annual ranking of IT companies based on their efforts to use clean energy and reduce their environmental impact. Here is the original: Google Tops Greenpeace's Clean IT List
