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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Image from the Guardian Celebrities buying plots of land to block developments is the new new. Last year people opposed to the third runway at Heathrow Airport bought up a plot in the middle of the runway in an attempt to thwart it. Now opponents to Donald Trump's golf ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original ...
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Photo via lucaboldrini69 Around 250 million people are bitten by venomous snakes each year causing not only deaths, but also nearly 300,000 amputations annually - most of which could be avoided if anti-venom were on hand. But in many areas there's a shortage - and even impending failure of supplies - as anti-venom stocks run short. The World Health ...
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Photo via lucaboldrini69 Around 250 million people are bitten by venomous snakes each year causing not only deaths, but also nearly 300,000 amputations annually - most of which could be avoided if anti-venom were on hand. But in many areas there's a shortage - and even impending failure of supplies - as anti-venom stocks run short. The World Health ...
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Photo: National Get Outdoors Day The US Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has a program they call "More Kids in the Woods." We first mentioned it back in 2007 . This year they'll contribute $500,000 USD to 21 initiatives, which aim to provide hands-on recreation and conservation education for "underserved and urban youth." ...
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Image from the Guardian Everyone is pretty delighted that Caroline Lucas won the first seat in the UK Parliament for the Green Party. But there is another prominent environmentalist who also got in: Zac Goldsmith. He won for the Conservative Party. Goldsmith is a high profile and impressive candidate. He was owner and editor of the Ecologist magazine and ...
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CalTech scientists discuss Pandora with James Cameron. Avatar 's director James Cameron is busy following up his monstrously successful film with an environmental campaign, from visiting the Amazon with Al Gore to CalTech last week to join a panel of scientists discussing the film and its "powerful environmental messages and impact." The event ... Read the full story on ...
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CalTech scientists discuss Pandora with James Cameron. Avatar 's director James Cameron is busy following up his monstrously successful film with an environmental campaign, from visiting the Amazon with Al Gore to CalTech last week to join a panel of scientists discussing the film and its "powerful environmental messages and impact." The event ... Read the full story on ...
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We just got a glimmer of hope with the BP oil spill in that one of the leaks has been capped --even if it's tarnished by the fact that the rate of leakage won't much be affected--but you've got to check out what these scientists are saying could happen after thre... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more from ...
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Image via Ubergizmo Oh yes indeed, German scientists have done it - a rain machine complete with lasers. In a lab environment, they were able to successfully zap a laser at a room full of water-saturated air sitting at a cool -24 °C. The result was rain clouds. And the next step in the experiment...make it work outside. Easy ...
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Story by Darragh Worland, originally published April 2010 on Tonic.com Philadelphia is about to get a whole lot greener thanks to a major tree planting effort. Mayor Michael Nutter has set a goal of planting 300,000 trees in the city by 2015, according to a press release. That's going to take a lot of green thumbs! The tree planting ...
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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 ...
