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 via StoryCorps A report published last week offers a peek into the effects of global warming on the world's trees . As it turns out, early indications hint that rising temperatures and increases in CO2 em... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original post here: Global Warming Makes Trees Grow Faster
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Slow Listening in a park Slow Down London is a lovely little project which encourages Londoners to slow down and look at the speed of life. One aspect is the Slow Club , an 8 week course with tasks to be done and Sunday's was a slow walk around the Kyoto Gardens in London's Holland Park. A delight for ...
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Photo via tanakawho Butterflies are some of the most visually stunning creatures we have on planet Earth. They're also the story tellers of climate change, noticeably shifting habitats as temperatures warm, and many of the species under threat of extinction. That's just why it's more important than ever to stop and watch butterflies, and were starting now, with this ...
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Image from AFP TreeHugger has been following the story of the future of Lake Baikal, the "pearl of Siberia", the world's largest and deepest fresh water body. Because of its age and isolated location, it contains unusual collections of freshwater flora and fauna. It is also a site of great controversy: activists fought to reroute a petroleum pipeline from ...
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Image from wrexhamgreenpeace.ning.com Greenpeace has announced that it will be building a new state of the art £14M (US$23M) sailing ship. When it is finished next year, the Rainbow Warrior III will be one of the biggest boats to be commissioned in the last ten years (move over Roman Abramovich ). The mega-yacht will be a sailing ship because ...
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Photo via runhmc Invasive species hitching rides on cargo ships has been an issue for decades, but it's been getting increasing attention as species like zebra mussels take over rivers and lakes and nudge out native species. So far, no one can decide what regulations should be in place so... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to ...
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photo: Kike Calvo via AP Images One of the justifications the Japanese whaling industry gives for violating the international ban on whaling is that killing minke whales will help larger baleen whales recover. Well, a new study in Molecular Ecology , conducted by scientists from Stanford and Oregon State universities refutes that argument:... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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Image from Mail online It's called tree mugging, not treehugging, and it's not nice. Property values are at the root of it. In exclusive Sandbanks Dorset, the better your view of the harbour and the sea, the more your apartment is worth. So if big ugly trees block the vista--get rid of them. And that's what people have been ...
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Image from Mail online It's called tree mugging, not treehugging, and it's not nice. Property values are at the root of it. In exclusive Sandbanks Dorset, the better your view of the harbour and the sea, the more your apartment is worth. So if big ugly trees block the vista--get rid of them. And that's what people have been ...
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Image from himalayantours.com Train travel is the way of the future: clean, environmental, fast and easy. Now you can even take one to the remote and magical kingdom of Bhutan. Known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon, it is one of those small countries in the Himalayas that seems lost in time; they had no roads or telephones ...
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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 ...
