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 Hayes Valley Farm I was just at Hayes Valley Farm this past Sunday, volunteering at the urban farm turning a crumbling freeway into crop land for local food production and education. I was working within 15 feet of two bee hives the entire time and barely noticed the insects as they went about their busy day. With ...
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Photo via Snap While it doesn't rank on par with killing an endangered animal like a tiger or bluefin tuna in the name of art, killing 200,000 ants to create a piece of art is still falls on the odd, and cruel side. Chris Trueman from California bought batches of ants at a cost of $500 per 40,000. After ...
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Image credit: kadavoor /Flickr In Western folklore, the dragonfly has been classified—if not vilified—as a sinister, mysterious, creature, a good friend of serpents and the devil, and even a thief. Today, however, entomological research shows that dragonflies are, in fact, beneficial insects that play vital roles in the ecosystem. Indeed, after surviving on the planet for an estimated 325 ...
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Bonnie recently covered the five shortlisted designs in the Beyond the Hive Competition . Designers were challenged to create " an ecologically sustainable and creative insect habitat." The winner the Golden Beetle Award is Arup Associates for their high-rise insect hotel... Read the full story on TreeHugger Excerpt from: Engineers Design Prize-Winning Insect Hotel For London Parks
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Photo: Taylar . Bodies that work with the Earth's magnetic field to determine location. Female-only societies. Telling whether you're a friend or a jerk there to make trouble with just one whiff. Homes so efficient they keep one steady temperature all the time. No, we're not talking about new X-Men or other comic book characters, we're talking about animals ...
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Image credit: cygnus921 /Flickr Around the world, honeybee populations are shrinking. Some colonies suffer from infestations of parasitic mites , others, the widespread use of pesticides , and some struggle to cope with changing climatic conditions. But deep in the Sahara desert, one colony of bees lives on in blissful isolation, as it has for as many as 10,000 ...
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If watching the World Cup isn't satisfying your love of sport, folks in Estonia have developed a game that may give you a new itch to scratch. Recently, thirty-seven brave participants gathered on a field in the city of Tartu to compete in a record-breaking mosquito-hunting c... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to see the original: 400+ Bugs ...
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If watching the World Cup isn't satisfying your love of sport, folks in Estonia have developed a game that may give you a new itch to scratch. Recently, thirty-seven brave participants gathered on a field in the city of Tartu to compete in a record-breaking mosquito-hunting c... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post here: 400+ Bugs Killed ...
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Images from bdonline : Vertebrate by Metalanguage Design This 5 star hotel for insects sounds better than most of the dumps that I've stayed in... Award winning, designed by prestigious architects and a great location in the middle of a park. Where have I gone wrong? The 5 short-listed projects for the Beyond the Hive Competit... Read the full ...
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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 ...
