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The Secret Life of the Sun (Slideshow)

Photo via MinnPost We rely on the sun for everything from powering up our electronics to basic heat and warmth for survival, but this massive star does more than just send light our way: It’s a huge nuclear reactor with explosions, eruptions, storms, and magnetic fields that affect both itself and Earth. Check out our slideshow for stunning space photos of the solar flares, spicules, coronal mass ejections, and other jaw-dropping phenomena that make the sun one of the most fascinating parts of our s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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So Why Can’t We Bother to Buy Carbon Offsets for Our Flights?

photo: jon smith via flickr If you buy a carbon offset for the flights you take, you’re in a small minority–at least according to a new survey by the UK Civil Aviation Authority carried out at Stansted airport last September. As reported by The Guardian , only 7% of flyers surveyed bothered to buy at offs… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Could Going Green Mean Trashing Our Landscape?

Image credit: Centre for Alternative Technology Environmentalists may spend a lot of time battling against the fossil fuel lobby , but the awkward truth is that there is plenty of fighting between “green” groups too—perhaps most notably when it comes to what constitutes ‘sustainability’, and how do we manage the sometimes competing demands of clean energy and conservation. From

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When Flight Attendants Get Mad, They Fart In Your Face [Revenge]

In the wake of Steven Slater immortalizing himself with spectacular display of flight attendant rebellion , we call our attention to another act of mid-flight attrition: ” cropdusting ,” when flight attendants walk down an airplane aisle and fart in seated passengers’ faces. More

Did JetBlue Flight Attendant Steven Slater Start the Fight That Led to His Exit? [Dubious]

JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater became an instant hero following his emergency slide-assisted resignation , prompted by abuse from a passenger aboard the flight. But now three other people tell the Wall Street Journal that Slater “instigated the confrontation.” What gives? More

Hero Flight Attendant’s Impassioned Online Warnings [The Internets]

He tried to tell us. JetBlue steward Steven Slater apparently posted to an airline message board in the months before his meltdown, warning of new pressures on flight attendants—and how the carry-on baggage situation had become a “monster.” More

JetBlue Flight Attendant Steven Slater Is a Free Man [Heroes]

Steven Slater —the JetBlue flight attendant who walked off the job via inflatable slide and was arrested by the cops yesterday mid-embrace with his boyfriend —is a free man tonight after coming up with his $2,500 bail. More

6 Incredible Low-Carbon Airships: From Concepts to Reality

Image credit: Boeing As Lloyd reported a while back, Zeppelins are back —and not without good reason. Silent, stylish and low-carbon, many of us who fly regularly have been dreaming of the day when airships will once again grace the skies. (When we talked with Michael Franti recently, he even speculated about the launch of a Spearhead Zeppelin.) But while some concepts being floated out there are, for the time being, little more th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Standing Seats On Airplanes Are A No-Fly Zone

Artists conception from BBC Four years ago we wrote about the idea of standing seating on airplanes, and noted that “there could be a TreeHugger case that more people crammed in means less fuel burned per person, and we also suspect that it will end deep vein thrombosis, but generally we think it gives new meaning to Flying is Dying. Last year we wrote An I… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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German Government Proposes Eco-tax on Air Travel

Image: Lufthansa A380 Everyone knows by now that the European member states have started a belt-tightening kick. Germany’s Chancellor Merkel has presented an austerity plan that includes an eco-tax on air travel. And the air is already heating up: airlines claim the tax is a body-blow, too close on the heels of losses related to the volcanic ash . Advocates hope for new revenues of 1 billion euros from the eco-tax on air travel. The opposition claims t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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