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New Study Pinpoints 42 Key Conservation Areas for Saving Tigers

Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch It might seem like an obvious connection: figure out the key areas where tigers breed best and conserve those areas, rather than large swaths of general landscapes. Yet, it still isn’t being done. According to the authors of a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, only about one third of the roughly 3,200 tigers left in the wild are breeding females. This means protecting where they live — only about 6% of the available habitat — should be the highest priority. The new study pinpoints 42 key areas where all conservati… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Beautiful View of a Ringworld, the Ultimate in Geoengineering (Video)

Screengrab from YouTube video What if we were to geoengineer a ring around the sun, specifically for human habitation? What would that look like? Artist Simon Terrey decided to visualize it for us. Check out the video animation of planet Earth as a ring around the sun. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Interactive guide to Larry Niven’s Ringworld

Dennis Antinori's guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld teems with information about its specs, but that's not all. There's also the equivalent of Google maps for Ringworld — it even lets you zoom in on key locations. Awesome. http://io9.com/5561479/interactive-guide-to-larry-nivens-ringworld-is-the-next-b… added by: pjacobs51