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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When it comes to plastic, what goes into the ocean, stays in the ocean . It is nearly common knowledge (or should be) that this plastic debris littering the oceans is not the sole responsibility of coast-dwellers. From bottles to bags, plastic trash finds its way into the ocean from ev... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to ...
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Photo: MAR-ECO/Oystein Paulsen, Courtesy of the Census of Marine Life Sure, you've heard there are plenty of fish in the sea -- but according to biologists there may be even more than you ever imagined, many more. After ten years mapping the ocean's biodiversity in the most comprehensive marine life censuses ever undertaken, researchers have arrived at a humbling ...
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Photo: Wikipedia , public domain. Learning from Evolution by Natural Selection Long before the word 'biomimicry' had been coined, humans were looking at how nature is solving problems and trying to learn from it. When it comes to designing flying machines, studying birds has been the norm as far back as Leonardo da Vinci. But while our feathered friends ...
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Credit: Kate Spencer, Randy Kochevar via GreatMarlinRace.org The Pacific blue marlin is one of the largest billfish to swim the open ocean. Just how far can they swim, and where exactly are they going? Scientists are tracking the movements of 10 marlin as part of this year's Great Marlin Race, and showing the results on the Internet. Last year, ...
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Image Credit: mattk1979 via Flickr Global warming has done a lot of damage this summer, from deadly flooding in Pakistan to the heat wave of the millennium in Russia. Now, the New York Times reports , there's another vict... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original post here: Bad News for Coral Reefs: Global Warming Causes Bleaching & Death
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Photo via Sarah Depper As much as 95% of the corals in the Philippines have suffered bleaching after the 2009-2010 El Niño event that boosted the temperatures in the Indian Ocean and waters off Southeast Asia during the beginning of this year. Warmer water is often responsible for bleaching (the die-off of symbiotic algae living on the corals) and ...
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Image credit: Mr Moss /Flickr On a remote beach in northern New Zealand, a group of conservationists and volunteers is struggling to keep 80 beached pilot whales alive until they can be pushed back into the ocean. With wind and waves too severe to perform the operation, the whales must be moved down shore to a protected inlet, but ...
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Photo: Flickr , CC Can Our Oceans Handle It? China is number one in a lot of things, good and bad. One of these is the quantity of fish consumed, and the quantity of fish caught (which isn't always the same, as some countries import or export a lot of fish). But, sadly for our oceans, China has reached ...
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Photo: Flickr , CC Officials in Kuwait have announced that a comprehensive survey of their territorial waters has revealed that about 90% of the corals there are dead or dying. The head of the Kuwait Diving Team, Walid Al-Fadhel, said in a statement: "this requires quick action by the competent authorities to find out the real causes, as well ...
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photo: Vera & Jean-Christophe via flickr Overfishing is (unfortunately) a perennial TreeHugger topic, but here's a new take on how to prevent it: As Physorg reports, Chile has designated exclusive fishing zones for small-scale 'artisanal' fishermen, excluding industrial fishing fleets and giving the big guys there own exclusive areas. A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
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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 ...
