Photo via ~jjjohn~ You like to-may-toes and I like to-mah-toes Up until recently, botanists believed that there to be over one million types of flowering plants on Earth, but now about 600 thousand of those species my soon be cut from the list — but extinction’s not to blame this time. It turns out that after decades of cataloging plants from around the world, there… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Researchers Cut 600,000 Names From Global Plant List
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Photo via Keith Slausen / US Forest Service The Sierra Nevada red fox was thought to be extinct, until three weeks ago anyway. U.S. Forest Service biologists captured photos of the fox with a camera set up on a trail, and took DNA samples of saliva pulled from a bait bag the fox bit into to experts at the University of California, Davis. And yep, we can put one extinct species back on the books, at least for now. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Extinct Fox Turns Up Again in California
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She’s truly one of the ocean’s best friends. Sylvia Earle’s career–and it’s an epic one– has been all about protecting and exploring the sea she loves so deeply. Earle served as chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was Time’s very first Hero for the Planet, and was handed the exalted TED Prize in 2009 . In our conversation she explains in detail what the Gulf oil spill has meant for the ocean’s delicate ecology, tells why she can no longer eat fish, and recounts waking… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Sylvia Earle on the Gulf Disaster and Saving the Seas (Podcast)
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Forget for the moment about to what degree climate change has influenced the flooding in Pakistan . A new article in China Dialogue brings to light a new angle on one very aggravating factor on the overwhelming devastation: Illegal logging by the ‘timber mafia’ has increased erosion, landslides, and even sent felled trees floating down rivers damaging bridges and dams. The original article goes through the timber mafia connection with the Taliba… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Illegal Logging by Pakistan’s Timber Mafia Increased Flooding Devastation
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Images: Youtube screen grabs Food Doesn’t Get More Local Than That A family living in Mesa, Arizona, has decided to convert an old unused backyard swimming pool into a very productive DIY urban greenhouse, which they named Garden Pool. Within a small, mostly enclosed space, they grow all kinds of vegetables and herbs, as well as raise chickens and tilapia fish. They started this project in 2009 and expected to be “self-sufficient” by 2012, but they’ve reached that goal this year, getting “8 fresh eggs a day, unlimited tilapia fish, organic fruit, veggies, and herbs 365 days a year” (though I’m not sure if by self-s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Family of Four Grows Their Food in a Swimming Pool
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Image via University of Hawaii at Manoa, Credit: Virginia Carter As corals face a daily bashing through warm, polluted waters, the scientists at University of Hawaii at Manoa and the Smithsonian Institution are building up a bank of frozen sperm and embryos of Hawaiian coral species, just in … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hawaiian Coral Saved by Freezing Sperm
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Photo via Sunphol Sorakul The Gulf oil disaster is having a massive impact on wildlife, with waves of animal deaths continuing into the foreseeable future thanks to both the oil and toxic clean-up methods. The disaster is so great that the extinction of some species is not an outlandish possibility, so it seems like a good idea to create a sanctuary elsewhere for the species who call the gulf home until the oil can be cleaned up. Naturalist Jack Rudloe has started just such a haven at his home in Tallahassee, building a Noah’s Ark-style preserve… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Biologist Creates Noah’s Ark-Style Preserve for Animals Threatened by Gulf Oil Disaster
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Image: How the World Works critiques The Story of Cosmetics Lee Doren, at How the World Works , has produced a critique of Annie Leonard’s The Story of Cosmetics . Always wanting to hear both sides of the story, we took a look. We discovered the usual arguments against consumer safety regulations. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Lee Doren of How the World Works Slams Annie Leonard’s Story of Cosmetics
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Photo via Stanford University The plague has become common problem among prairie dog colonies and it has devastated populations over the past few decades. It will hit and wipe out a colony, then when a new colony moves in to the abandoned tunnels, the plague reappears and wipes them out as well. The cycles have confounded researchers so far, with mystery surrounding how the plague seems to lay dormant until new victims arrive. But scientists from Standford University have figured it out — the secret to what is bringing down prairie dog towns is lin… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Carnivorous Mice Wiping Out Prairie Dog Towns
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Image credit: Mark Moffett If we never grew up and stopped playing in the dirt, says Mark “Dr. Bugs” Moffett , we’d never lose our fascination with ants. Alas, most of us have lost touch with the insect friends of our childhood. Mark Moffett is one of the world’s leading explorers and a biologist with an acute ant fixation (he did, afterall, get his PhD under E. O. Wilson , the grandaddy of ant scientists). Moffett’s articles and remarkable photographs appear regularly in
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Mark Moffett, Adventures Among Ants
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