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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Screenshot from YouTube For folks living in the charming beach community of Atafona on the Brazilian coast north of Rio de Janeiro, there's a sense that the ocean is not only alive -- it's hungry, too. Since the quaint village was first established in the 1950s, hundreds of homes have literally been swallowed up by the ocean as sea ...
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Photo via Mission Blue The majority of the ocean is thought of as unowned. About 64% is ungoverned by any national law. And yet so much of it needs protections and regulations so that the wildlife can survive, let alone thrive. How do we go about making and enforcing laws that are reasonable and effective, and benefit both humans ...
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Image via Oceana video Oceana has launched a new PSA for sea turtles that takes a silly approach to a serious issue. The ad features comedians Angela Kinsey ("The Office") and Rachael Harris ("My Boys" and "The Hangover") as the two work very hard to be the next Bond girls. Watch the video after the jumo. ... Read the ...
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A little photoshop fun! Photo: egarc2 , Flickr, CC Many of Them From Endangered Species According to a new report by Oceana , an important ocean conservation organization, more than 1.3 million highly migratory sharks were caught in the Atlantic Ocean during 2008, without international fisheries management. The actual number is probably significantly higher than that, but many countries ...
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photo: Brandon Fick / Creative Commons Some really interesting research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B highlighted by BBC News : Scientists have determined that the great white sharks living in the Mediterranean are more closely related to th... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post here: Mediterranean Great Whites Originally From Australia Not Atlantic
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The ocean has no shortage of strange and beautiful creatures , from the colorful animals that dwell in the shallowest tide-pools to the alien-looking species that lurk in the shadowy depths -- and, indeed, everywh... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here: Gigantic School of Sardines 'Dance' for Divers (Video)
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Photo via Anderson Smith2010 The Mission Blue Voyage held by TED earlier this year brought together some of the most respected and admirable people working on protecting our oceans. The catalyst behind the voyage was Sylvia Earle's TED wish , which was to boost the number of "hope spots" or protected marine areas globally. As one of the TED ...
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photo: Sherrie Thai / Creative Commons There's no doubt that geoengineering brings out passionate emotions both pro and con, as recent debate on TreeHugger about the sort of-moratorium on some research coming out of the Convention on Biological Diversity amply illustrates. Backing up the caution side (which I admit I'm firmly a part of) is a new piece of ...
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Image: Lophelia II 2010, NOAA OER and BOEMRE If BP was hoping that "out of sight, out of mind" would help memories of the Deepwater Horizon gulf oil spill disaster fade, news from an ongoing NOAA exploration of coral communities in the deep gulf sea floor could dash their hopes. The findings of a team led by Penn State ...
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Photo credit: poplinre / Creative Commons Placing invasive species on the menu to curb their expansion has been attempted with everything from squirrels to kangaroo to camel , and now conservationists are asking diners to turn their attention—an... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more: Eat a Lionfish to Protect Caribbean Reefs
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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 ...
