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 credit: TED /Bonnie Bassler Earlier this week, I wrote a post wondering whether we should think of composting as animal husbandry —given the vast array of living organisms that exist in a compost heap. Now I am wondering whether the same term could apply to simply living. Because I've just come across a video that highlights the astounding ...
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photo: Eddy Van 3000 / Creative Commons Now this research concerns itself with non-human animals (mice specifically), but it does provide interesting insight into the non-diet factors which may be at play in soaring obesity rates and the way environmental pollution influences development: A new study shows that exposure to polluted air early in life, at levels that correspond ...
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photo: Nicholas / Creative Commons While it may sound like a good thing on the face of it, cloud cover being reduced by 10% over the next 90 years due to climate change, that additional amount of blue sky could mean that we're in for more temperature increases--that's according to research done at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, ...
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photo: Ray Tsang / Creative Commons We've been writing variations of that headline for the bulk of 2010 and as the year winds down, all the projections that this year would be the hottest on record are proving true. While we won't know for certain until the early part of 2011, when the final temperature data for December is ...
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Drought and desertification could be widespread within 50 years. Photo: John Brawley / Creative Commons . With no doubt intentional perfect timing as the COP16 climate talks open in Mexico, the Royal Society has released a special issue on the future impacts of climate change and, as you might imagine if you've been following the climate research to date, ...
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photo: m.prinke / Creative Commons Keep this next quick one in mind the next time you start wondering if all that snow falling this winter might mean global warming isn't actually happening: Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research say that melting Arctic sea ice may lead to colder winters in northern latitudes... Read the full story ...
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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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photo: loco085 / Creative Commons In case the litany of separate studies showing how bad the ongoing extinction crisis the planet is undergoing, driven for all intents and purposes entirely by humans, really is haven't driven the point home: A new series of content from the Royal Society (h/t to Go here to see the original: We're Killing Everything, Including ...
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photo: Jim Whitehead / Creative Commons While there have been some pretty dire reports about the extinction of plants and animals due to global warming , there has also been some interesting and encouraging research about how species may be able survive in certain places. This is one of those. Research coming out of the University of Basel , ...
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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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Save the sea creatures! Handcraft your own natural specimens using these these simple patterns, some yarn and a crochet hook. View post: 8 Enchanting Sea Creatures You Can Crochet
A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
