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: tibchris /Flickr Two tiger cubs were found dead in the Ranthambhore national park in India this weekend. Though an investigation is still under way, officials reported that early evidence suggests the cubs were poisoned.... Read the full story on TreeHugger More: Tiger Cubs Found Dead in Indian National Park
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photo: Guyon Morée via flickr. Let's take the idea of animal rights in a legal direction. Over the weekend voters in Switzerland rejected a proposal to start public funding for lawyers to defend animals in court . Which to many people in the United States may seem like a no-brainer. Public funding for animal rights lawyers? Come on!... Read ...
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Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service . So it wasn't long ago that TreeHugger featured a slideshow called "10 Creatures That Conveniently Grow Back Body Parts ." One of those creatures, the Tiger Salamander, has since been granted protection under California law. Coincidence? Perhaps. Evidence of the power of green media? Sure. But the Cen... Read the full story ...
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A dugong in an aquarium in Sydney, Australia. Photo by jo3hug via Flickr. It must have required many lonely months out to sea to mistake this face only a mother could love for that of a fair maiden, but encounters with dugongs are indeed said to have been the inspiration for the myth of the mermaid. While the fictional ...
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Image credit: iluvrhinestones /Flickr From Texas to South Africa, farmers and ranchers on the drought-plagued savannah know that cutting down water-hungry shrubs and trees helps keep more moisture in the soil. This conventional wisdom has ruled land management for generations but there is one problem—it may not be true. According to new findings by researchers at Texas A&M University ...
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The Utah prairie dog. Photo by Dean Biggins, U.S. Geological Survey. Guest blogger NaturallySavvy.com is dedicated to natural and organic living. Plague once struck mortal fear in humans, but it's a thing of the past, right? Not so, according to research published in a special issue of the journal Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases , which focused solely on plague. ...
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Forest recovering after the B&B Complex fire in 2003 in the central Oregon Cascade Range. Photo by Garrett Meigs, Oregon State University via Flickr . Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com 's Naturally Green section. About half of the overstory trees were killed in the B&B Complex fire in 2003 near Canyon Creek ...
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Without a commercial trade ban, illustrations and photos will be the only Atlantic bluefin tuna the world sees. Image: Wikipedia . Some good news for critically endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna : The Obama administration says it will back a proposal to place the species in Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species , thereby prohibiting ...
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Image credit: gadgetdude /Flickr Marine reserves are designed to protect fish, plants, and the reef ecosystems they populate but another factor is integral to their success. Human populations, a recent study shows, have the capacity to help or hurt conservation. Furthermore, research showed, human interactions with the reserves have some surprising consequences.... Read the full story on TreeHugger See ...
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Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery's 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. Discovery Channel launches their newest series, another provocative look at the goings-on on our beautiful planet. Will it be as successful as Planet Earth ? On Thursday I joined a small crowd in Los Angeles (I'd call it a gathering, ...
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Photo via International Rivers The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined--in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today . Basically, in ...
Image credit: Andrew Zuckerman When Andrew Zuckerman , a renowned commercial photographer, turned his lens on animals, the result was a series of striking images that resonate with emotion. Collected in his book Read more from the original source: Captivating ...
