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: elisfanclub / CC When Emperor Island was first discovered off the coast of Antarctica back in 1948, it was so named for the thriving colony of around 300 penguins that met there each year to breed. Just over sixty years later, however, there's not a single penguin in sight -- and researchers suspect that melting off from Go ...
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photo: OxOx / Creative Commons One more of the amazing things about elephants : Researchers at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center have determined that Asian elephants cooperate with one another at least as well as chimpanzees.... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post: Elephants Cooperate With One Another As Well As Apes Do
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Photo via AsianCarp.org . How will invasive Asian carp enter the Great Lakes? Via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal , maybe another flood ? They almost made it via a semi-tractor trailer crossing the Ambassador Bridge from the U.S. to Canada. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Originally posted here: Asian Carp Almost Migrate from U.S. to Canada, ...
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Nutty billboard-on-wheels with recycled vinyl signage hits road on environmental mission. Photo by RCruger The goofy looking Nutmobile is headed to New Orleans on a 16-city tour through summer to show off its green features, including a wind turbine, solar panels and reclaimed wood floors from a 19th century Pennsylvania barn. It will house Mr. Peanut, who can pop ...
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Photo: fPat / CC Zoos are intended to be places where people can go to learn about unique and fascinating animals from all over the world -- but often they end up showing us that we're actually not so different after all. For over two decades, a female Lowland gorilla named Gorina and her partner Gyeoggi at a zoo ...
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Photo: shioshvili Last week concerned dolphins successfully saved the life of a struggling Doberman Pinscher by alerting a vacationing couple that the poor pooch was stuck on the sandbar. The dolphins were enjoying a swim through the Florida canal on their way to the Gulf of Mexico when they noticed the 80 pound Doberman that had disappeared hours before. ...
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Lake Victoria. Photo: Lukas Bergstrom / Creative Commons . The rapid growth of invasive water hyacinths has taken a serious toll on Kenya's Lake Victoria, creating inhospitable conditions for the fish local people depend on, while sheltering other unwelcome guests: disease -carrying snails and deadly snakes. But with a little help from a U.S.-based organization, villagers living near the ...
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Winter floods always bring a rush of concern about the amount of water being "wasted" as it rushes out to the ocean. A serious problem with urban landscapes, particularly those on coastlines or near deltas, is that rainwater washes straight into storm drain systems and out to sea, rather than being soaked up by the soil and replenishing the ...
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Original photo via Walking Planet Sure, it may be a little hot and crowded around here, but our planetary home is still easily the nicest on the block -- with a hefty a price-tag to boot. In fact, according to one astrophysicist who came up with a calculation for valuing planets, Earth is worth a bank-breaking $5 quadrillion dollars, ...
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Photo by dave and rose via Flickr Creative Commons We've heard about whales suffering from loneliness due to overhunting . There's simply fewer of their species for them to communicate with. But what about a whale who sings at the wrong frequency? One whale, recorded since 1989 and tracked since 1992, sings at a frequency of 51.75 Hz, whereas ...
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This hand operated gramophone is as simple as it gets. Original post: Minimalist Gramophone Makes Playing Music Super Simple
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 ...
