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Cool Green Bus Terminal Coming to San Francisco

An artist’s conception of the green new Transbay Terminal being built in San Francisco. Image via Inhabitat . One of my favorite things to do in Turkey is go down to the main otogar (bus station), ask around for buses to interesting destinations, and hop on. The station itself is no great shakes architecturally or anything, but I love the hustle and bustle and the feeling that a whole country’s worth of options is open to me. That sense of possibility and movement draws me to trans… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cool Green Bus Terminal Coming to San Francisco

Scientists Drill into Ancient Coral Reefs To Find Secrets About Surviving Rising Seas

Photo Credit: ECORD/IODP via Live Science In an instance where drilling into the Great Barrier Reef is a good thing, scientists are pulling core samples of ancient coral to unravel how sea level changes have impacted corals in the past, and perhaps help predict what can happen to them in the future as they struggle with relatively rapid shifts in their marine environments. The corals they’re studying lived about 20,000 years ago when the planet was about 9 degrees F cooler than present temperatures, and their grow… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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