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 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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Hidden deep within the Venezuelan jungle, stands the tallest waterfall in the world. It's so tall, rising to a height of 3,212 ft, that the roaring torrent of falling water is reduced to a mere mist before meeting the rocks below. Due to its remote location, the magnificent cascade wasn't known to the outside world until 16 November, 1933, ...
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Image from Do the Green Thing For those of you in the last throes of Christmas shopping, here's the answer to what you could get the remaining few on your list, and it is available on Amazon, oops, Amazero.com. As the description says , buy Nothing: it's "Compact, lightweight and easy to carry, incredibly durable, fits into your briefcase ...
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Photo by the_toe_stubber via Flickr. Conservation efforts sometimes create unlikely bedfellows. By keeping tracts of land off-limits, high-security prisons , closed borders , and wars and other conflicts can inadvertently protect natural landscapes from degradation. Now, it seems, we can add brothel owners to the list of accidental environmentalists.... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post ...
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Image: Flickr, Argonne National Laboratory Could Nanoparticles Cause "Dramatic Mutations?" Nanoparticles, hailed as the solution for everything from the next generation of micro-electronic gadgets to curing cancer , are poorly understood. When scientists first mastered the technology for creating and manipulating microscopic balls and tubes, toxicologists speculated that the tiny particles would have properties similar to the same chemicals ...
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The newly-discovered Magombera chameleon. Image credit: Andrew Marshall/African Journal of Herpetology Dr. Andrew Marshal did not venture into the lowland forests of Tanzania looking for a new species . He does not study reptiles or amphibians. In fact, the new species of chameleon he disco... Read the full story on TreeHugger Continued here: New Species Discovered Thanks to Vomiting Snake
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Sometimes nature isn't so harsh and here are two stories as example: BBC News reports that two grandmother macaques have been observed nursing and caring for their grandchildren, the first time such caring behavior has been unambiguously documented; on a much smaller scale, See the rest here: Goodbye Cruel World - Ants Save Mates from Danger & Macaque Grandmas Nurse Their ...
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The Nov. 15 " 60 Minutes " segment "Resurrecting Eden." Life hasn't been easy for the Ma'dan, or "Marsh Arabs," of Ira... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here: Nature Iraq's 'Second Creation Story' (Video)
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Mangrove photo: Ken Funakoshi via flickr. More and more research has been coming out recently on how much carbon is stored in different ecosystems . The latest is from an IUCN report (via Mongabay ) which shows that coastal habitats store up to 50 times more carbon in their soils by area than tropical forests, and ten more than ...
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Scientists don't quite agree on whether bluefin tuna, pictured above, is on the verge of collapse. Photo by Jose Cort courtesy of the NOAA . Bluefin tuna is on the verge of total collapse . Maybe. It depends on who you ask. We may have been talking about bluefin tuna shortages for years, but many scientists and co... Read ...
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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 ...
