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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Mallard ducks take flight over a marsh outside the Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. Image credit: U.S. Army Environmental Command /Flickr Iraq's marshes and wetlands are critical roosting places for the migratory birds of Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East but, as the country struggles to preserve security and encourage development, these ecosystems have become more ...
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Image via YouTube video Birdhouses are always getting some techy updates. First it was solar panels . Now, the 3D television rage is hitting birdhouses, too. One avid birdwatcher has set up a camera so that he can spy on nesting birds with the same effect as if he were standing right there looking in the peephole. ... Read ...
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Image credit: Carly & Art /Flickr With a range that extends from Texas in the west to Florida in the south and all the way into Ontario, the rat snake is a common and important predator in North American forests. Opportunistic hunters, the snakes will eat anything from small mammals to squirrels, bird eggs to fully-grown adults incubating a ...
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Image credit: Carly & Art /Flickr With a range that extends from Texas in the west to Florida in the south and all the way into Ontario, the rat snake is a common and important predator in North American forests. Opportunistic hunters, the snakes will eat anything from small mammals to squirrels, bird eggs to fully-grown adults incubating a ...
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Image credit: ~MVI~ /Flickr As the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster begins to wash ashore, more and more wildlife will become coated in the black gunk . Thankfully, biologists, conservationists, and volunteers will be on the scene, doing their best to clean the oily animals. But how do they clean an oil-covered bird, anyway?... Read the full story ...
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Image credit: ~MVI~ /Flickr As the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster begins to wash ashore, more and more wildlife will become coated in the black gunk . Thankfully, biologists, conservationists, and volunteers will be on the scene, doing their best to clean the oily animals. But how do they clean an oil-covered bird, anyway?... Read the full story ...
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Photo Credit: Barry Bland/Barcroft Media via The Daily Mail For every animal that dies before its time, there are others that outdo their species with record-setting lifespans: 211-year-old whales, 25-year-old dogs, 175-year-old tortoises. And while figuring out an animal's age isn't an exact science--especially when it's a creature found in nature without a birth certificate--the fish, mammals, and fowl ...
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Image Source: marinephotobank Dear Pablo: I am very disturbed by the massive oil spill in the Gulf. Why didn't BP or the Government just burn it all before it began reaching land? Surely this would have been a lesser evil. If we weren't there already there before, BP's underwater gusher in the Gulf has our collective eco-anxiety approaching 11. ...
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Photo via: The Guardian My weekend just got better with this adorable piece of good news from the U.K.'s Metro and the Romanian Times . An ever-faithful stork by the name of Rodan, as named by the Read the original: One Stork's Mind-Blowing, Melt-Your-Heart Long Distance Love Story (PHOTO)
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Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Perhaps it's because humans sit at the top of the food chain , or maybe it's that big predators so capture the imagination, but much of the attention given to the web of predators and prey focuses on this upper edge—the polar bears , the tigers, the wolves. If the residents of an ecosystem piled ...
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A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
How to grow tastier tomatoes and how to make food taste sweeter without sugar: just two amazing discoveries from a study of the chemical interactions underlying tomato flavor preferences Read the rest here: The Secrets of Tasty Tomatoes Discovered - Can ...
