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: Wikipedia , CC Penguins are an Indicator Species in the Region A new study confirms that a warming planet won't only impact species of penguins that live and feed in icy habitats. "A 30-year field study of Adélie (ice-loving) and chinstrap (ice-avoiding) penguins shows that populations of both species in the West Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Sea have ...
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC Give that Bear a Gold Medal in Endurance Swimming We've known for a while that the increasing melting of the Arctic sea ice cover during the summer was posing big problems to polar bears, forcing some to swim for extended distances, using up their precious reserves of energy and reducing their chances of surviving harsh ...
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Queensland floodwaters rearrange carpark. Photo credit: Sukhwindher Singh via ABC . Almost two years ago Australia endured its worst bushfire catastrophe , when over 400 wildfires engulfed the state of Victoria and claimed 173 lives, injuring over 400 people and destroying over 3,500 buildings. Because of the preceding drought, tinder dry forests erupted a force of destructive energy that ...
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Boston, MA. Photo: Wikipedia , CC That's the Plan, Anyway... Ian Bowles, the secretary of the Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA), has announced an ambitious (compared to some) greenhouse gas emission limit for his state. The goal is a 25% reduction compared to 1990 levels, and that has to be achieved by 2020. "Massachusetts has already taken great ...
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"Looking for hard date in very soft ground..." If there's one thing that can make global warming worse, it's large quantities of Original post: Russia's Permafrost Not So Permanent Anymore (Video)
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Image credit: Permaculture TV Some believe biochar could offset as much as 12% of CO2 emissions , but others warn that biochar is no miracle cure —with the prospects of large-scale biochar plantations and other such enterprises getting activists worried. The ambiguous nature of biochar as both a potential solution, and a po... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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Image: Twitter screen grab Any Family Ties With ELIZA? Nigel Leck got tired of arguing with people skeptical about global warming science. Noticing that most of them used the same debunked arguments over and over again, he decided to make a Twitter chatbot to answer them automatically. The bot is named @AI_AGW (the photo is of HAL 9000's camera-eye ...
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BIGNONA , Senegal -- I was eager to post this earlier, but when you're in Casamance, in southern Senegal, you've a catalog of good excuses. There are the obvious ones: jet lag, culture shock, the intense heat. And then the roads are broken, their poorly-laid asphalt so riddled with holes and cracks that the dirt along the sides is ...
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photo via flickr The world's largest consumer products company, Proctor and Gamble, has a new commitment to sustainability. The goals are laudable and include: powering its plants with 100 percent renewable energy, using 100 percent renewable or recycled materials for all products and packaging, and cutting down on packaging materials. The move is bolder than other companies and could ...
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Image credit: Climate Camp From beautiful images of a climate camp protest in Wales , to skepticism over protesters' targeting of offset companies —the ever growing Climate Camp movement never fails to get a reaction—both here on TreeHugger and elsewhere. But it seems the latest Climate Camp protests have garnered atten... Read the full story on TreeHugger See original ...
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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 ...
