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Deep Water Corals Dead and Dying; Gulf Oil Spill to Blame (Video)

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Deep Water Corals Dead and Dying; Gulf Oil Spill to Blame (Video)

Photograph via BOEMRE and NOAA OER Lophelia II expedition While the news coverage has died down, the lingering impacts on wildlife of the Deep Horizon oil spill are still being uncovered. That includes what’s going on far under the surface of the water to deep sea corals. Researchers from Penn State have discovered that seven miles southwest of the disastrous wellhead is a huge bed of dead and damaged corals, and it is suspected that the damage is thanks to the spill. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Incredible Videos of Rare Big Cats Show Jaguar Fishing, Lion Cubs Swimming, and More (Slideshow)

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Incredible Videos of Rare Big Cats Show Jaguar Fishing, Lion Cubs Swimming, and More (Slideshow)

Photo: MacJewell / Creative Commons It’s hard enough to catch a glimpse of the world’s most elusive big cats — snow leopards, clouded leopards, jaguars, tigers — but when you consider that many of them are on the edge of extinction, your chances become slimmer every day. The 10 videos on these pages — shot both in captivity and the wild — offer an incredible look into the lives of these big cats, revealing strong personalities and more than a little curiosity towards cameras.

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Get to Know an Awesome Animal: The Galapagos Penguin

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Get to Know an Awesome Animal: The Galapagos Penguin

Photo credit: Collin Dunn When it comes to the Galapagos, most people think : Islands; tropical; Equator; volcanoes; some variation on those general ideas probably pops to mind, unless you’ve been here. If you have been here, you probably know that a few of the islands are home to the Galapagos Penguin. If you haven’t been here (or studied the islands, or just know a lot about it), you may be thinking one thing: What the heck are penguins doing on the equator?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Does Senate Bill 510 Put Raw Milk in Real Danger?

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Does Senate Bill 510 Put Raw Milk in Real Danger?

Graphic courtesy Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund . Today the U.S. Senate passed Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act. After the recent scandal with eggs , and all of the other food safety issues of recent years ( meat , peanut butter , s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scotland’s Battle Over the Beaver

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Scotland’s Battle Over the Beaver

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons In medieval England, a beaver pelt was worth three years of wages to a peasant laborer . So important, in fact, was the beaver, that the Church of England classified it as a fish so it could be eaten on Fridays. After a few hundred years of such popularity, however, the European beaver became extinct in the UK. Now, after four centuries, conservationists have decided it is time to reintroduce the beaver to Scotland—a decision many residents strongly oppose…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tune In To Live Whale Songs on Your Computer

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Tune In To Live Whale Songs on Your Computer

Photo via NOAA You can stream all sorts of nature sounds on your computer to keep you calm during the day — babbling brooks or rustling trees or ocean waves. But have you ever listening to whales singing live to you? A project called Listen to the Deep Ocean or LIDO , gives you that opportunity. But surprisingly, the tools used to record the song are tuned for something much more… spacey. Researchers trying to listen to neutrinos, which are emitted by distant stars, they’ve been able to pick up some extraordinary… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What is Really Being Done to Save the Galapagos?

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on What is Really Being Done to Save the Galapagos?

Is enough being done to save the Giant Tortoises? Photo credit: Collin Dunn Conservation efforts, especially in places as renowned as the Galapagos, have something of a reputation. It’s developers vs. protesters, consumers vs. conservationists, people vs. animals. Thanks to a lecture by Ros Cameron, who works at the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) on Santa Cruz island in the Galapagos, we can see it’s lot, lot, lot more complex than that. So, with that as a given, what’s actually being done now to save the Galapagos?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Stimulus Allows Big Polluters to Bypass Environmental Regulations

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Stimulus Allows Big Polluters to Bypass Environmental Regulations

Photo: Vidor , Wikimedia, CC In its haste to jump-start “shovel-ready” stimulus projects, the Obama administration allowed many of the biggest polluters in the nation to sidestep key environmental regulations. The federal government made a stunning 179,000 “categorical exclusions” that allowed corporations — many with disastrous environmental records — to use stimulus funding to sponsor projects without submitting them to review under … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Russian Scientist Creating a Backyard Ice Age Ecosystem to Slow Global Warming

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Russian Scientist Creating a Backyard Ice Age Ecosystem to Slow Global Warming

Photo via debbie_sonberg Some people put up bird feeders to expand their backyard wildlife, while others add native plants and flowers to attract insects and animals. But Sergey Zimov has decided to recreate a habitat from 10,000 years ago. Over the last 20 years, he’s added wild horses, musk oxen, reindeer, and is even planning to add Siberian tigers and wolves to create an ecosystem lost after the last ice age. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Animal News: Endangered Species Strike a Pose, Pelicans Lost in Siberia, and More (Slideshow)

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Week in Animal News: Endangered Species Strike a Pose, Pelicans Lost in Siberia, and More (Slideshow)

Photo: Joel Sartore If you thought screaming babies or rowdy toddlers made snapping just one decent photo a herculean task, just wait until you see what unruly models endangered species can be in front of the camera. We have this story and more — from a whale reunited with its rescuers and a rare spider rediscovered in England to the dismal state of the Gulf of Mexico shrimp haul — in our roundup of news from the animal world this week.

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