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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A quick update on the status of a proposed road that would bisect Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and potentially destroy the world renowned annual wildebeest migration . According to Mongabay , the World Bank has offered to fund an alternative route for the road which bypass the park. Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union's Dr Barbara Mass described the ...
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Photo: Saint Louis Zoo Awww. We have a new black rhino. But that's not the only news from the animal kingdom this week: We also have a tiger who tried to check into a hotel, a brand-new leopard, beavers helping bats, and more in The Week in Animal News. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger More here: The Week ...
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Photo by AnnieGreenSprings via Flickr Creative Commons Dr. Gregory Stone, Senior Vice President and Chief Ocean Scientist for Conservation International, gave an inspiring TED talk during the Mission Blue Voyage called "Saving The Ocean, One Island at a Time" during which he explained how a new strategy for protecting Kiribati's waters could be scaled to fit many other areas ...
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Photo credit: Daniel Loewe. Project: Svala Imagine your dress becomes your means of transportation! This was the briefing the students at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Barcelona received from BMW . The result are 5 concepts for future mobility in cities like Barcelona , that result from morphing fashion with transport design. Great to see that all ...
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Photo: Ersin Uyanik When Terry Allen planted a flowerbed outside his home 20 years ago, he could never have imagined it would become the sight of a blood-soaked bee battleground. Terry, an entomologist from Sacramento, discovered some European wool carder bees had taken up residence in his front yard, the first time the species had been spotted in California ...
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC Give that Bear a Gold Medal in Endurance Swimming We've known for a while that the increasing melting of the Arctic sea ice cover during the summer was posing big problems to polar bears, forcing some to swim for extended distances, using up their precious reserves of energy and reducing their chances of surviving harsh ...
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Liberia is home to African forest elephants, like those seen here. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Since civil war broke out in Liberia in the 1980s, 19,000 elephants have been killed by poachers. Today, only 1,000 elephants remain, meaning the country has lost 95 percent of its elephants in only a few decades.... Read the full story on TreeHugger View ...
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Photo: Lazy Lizard Tales Few things excite the blogosphere, or human beings for that matter, as much as the discovery of a new species. Especially a strikingly beautiful mammalian one. As such, the news of the Sunda Leopard's discovery -- the "world's newest cat", according to the BBC -- wasted no time in spreading like wildfire (the proverbial kind, ...
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Megadeth photo: Marta Xochilt Perez / Wolf photo: FurLined Despite being an endangered species, wolves in Norway face serious threats from gun-totting farmers looking to protect their livestock by way of a bullet -- but it turns out that another kind of heavy metal may be just as effective at keeping the animals away. Rec... Read the full story ...
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Photo credit: US Fish & Wildlife Service Just before the tiny Maguire daisy, native to the desert Southwest of the United States , was placed on the endangered species list in 1985, a survey estimated that the population had dropped to just seven plants. Extinction, it seemed, was inevitable. Thanks to continued conservation efforts , the situation today is ...
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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
