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: Alex Wild Photography Let's say you weighed around 150 pounds and needed to lift a stack of six double-decker buses . Impossible, right? Well, if you were a dung beetle , such a feat would be no problem. Theses beetles are so strong in fact, they can lift up to 1,141 times its body weight, or roughly equivalent ...
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When an insect queen ventures onto the mating scene, she certainly makes the most of it, coupling with as many as 90 males each half-hour. That's because during the mating process for "social insects" like ants , bees , and termites , the highly prized queens mate for just o... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original ...
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Photo via internets_dairy It's no surprise to hear that butterflies are emerging earlier than usual - we've been witnessing that for several years now. But Researchers from the University of Melbourne have looked at the ever earlier emergence of butterflies is due to a climate being warmed by greenhouse gasses, and they state that not only are the results ...
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Photo via Don Hankins Sainsbury is known for it's environmental mindset, from launching EV charging stations at stores , to turning wasted food into energy . It's been known to push the envelope for chain markets, and now it's moving into another area that is a supermarket first - keeping bees. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger The ...
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Image credit: Marta Grzesiak With hard bodies, iridescent colors, segmented eyes, pairs and pairs of wings, and, let's not forget, wings—It's hard to imagine creatures more dissimilar to ourselves than insects. Yet, when we take a close look, we can see that the lives of insects follow many of the same patterns as our own: We all eat, mate, ...
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC What Can We Learn From The Highways in the Sky Science recently published a study titled " Flight Orienta... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the rest here: Migrating Insects Use Wind to Travel Efficiently at Speeds of up to 60 MPH
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Photo via Niffty.. With the help of a scanning electron microscope, Chinese scientists have figured out the secret architecture to spiders' webs that make them incredibly effective at catching dew. Cracking into the mystery could mean that the same structures can be duplicated in fog catchers for developing nations, creating effective yet inexpensive methods for helping communities with scarce ...
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Photo via Aluka Life has never been too easy for the African wasp Certosolen arab... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the rest here: Wasps Help Fig Trees Have Sex Over Long Distances
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Photo via Aluka Life has never been too easy for the African wasp Certosolen arab... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to read the rest: Wasps Help Fig Trees Have Sex Over Long Distances
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This jewel-encrusted beetle makes even Ringo Starr seem drab. Photo via The Guardian Looking for a fashion statement that will tell the world that you have zero respect for animals? Try wearing a living beetle, encrusted with jewels, pinned to your shirt. Well, that's what one woman did. Her unusually cruel accessory stumped US Custom authorities in Texas when ...
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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 ...
