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Mars’ Largest Moon Will Someday Put A Ring On It

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Mars’ moon Phobos may crash into the planet or be torn into millions of pieces, according to a study published Monday (Nov. 23) in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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The Mesh Explains Why the Present and Future of Business is Sharing (Book Review)

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Mesh Explains Why the Present and Future of Business is Sharing (Book Review)

Photo credit: The Mesh by Lisa Gansky. Lisa Gansky sees a new emerging business model emerging. One she has dubbed, The Mesh . “… one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide those choices.” A model “based on network-enabled sharing—on access rather than ownership.” In her book, Lisa notes the primary benefit to business is that they can “sell” the same product multiple times and in doing so build up a profile of customer needs and actions to further refine the business. The upside for customers is that they get use stuff without all the hassles of own… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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GM Cotton Fails – Insect Pests Thriving on Indian Plants When They Should Be Dead

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on GM Cotton Fails – Insect Pests Thriving on Indian Plants When They Should Be Dead

photo: Beau / Creative Commons An article in the latest issue of the journal Current Science raises serious questions about the long-term viability of genetically-modified Bt cotton to actually do what it’s intended to do, increase pest resistance. Scientists have found for the first time b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Unlucky Animal Lover Nearly Loses Another Arm

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Tony Tanoury While it’s often commendable when a passerby goes out of their way to help an animal in need — still, sometimes it’s best to let others handle it. Case in point, meet Alexander Alcantare. This South Florida man loves animals so much that when he offers them a helping hand, there’s a pretty good chance he won’t be getting it back, a lesson he’s learned once before. A while ago, he burned his arm so badly while trying to save a nest of

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Why American Women Accept Climate Change Science More Than Men

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

It comes down to how we teach boys to be boys and girls to be girls… photo: Jason Pratt . Ever wonder why it seems the most vocal climate change skeptics are men? A new study by Michigan State Univ. sociologist Aaron McCright, published in the journal Population and Environment says that women do tend to… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Best of Inhabitots: 7 Toxic Dangers for Kids

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo credit: on_ovington + Baby formula could contain unsettling amounts of aluminum &emdash;more than 40 times the amount found in breast milk, according to one recent study. + Another scary side-effect of tainted baby formula: Breasts in female infants . + 85 percent of so-called kid-friendly drinks and snacks could contain

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Chimps Found Deactivating Snares Set By Human Bushmeat Hunters

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Graham Racher via flickr Go chimps, go! An interesting new paper in the journal Primates documents how a group of chimpanzees in Bossou, Guinea have been successfully deactivating snares set by human bushmeat hunters. Though not always successful, the scienti… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Marine Stewardship Council’s Marine Stewardship Questionable, Scientists Say

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Mr. T in DC via flickr A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Nature scientists from the University of British Columbia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other institutions have called out the Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine stewardship. As is to be expected, MSC strongly disagrees. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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More Frequent Extreme Heatwaves Commonplace Across the US by 2040

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

image: Noah Diffenbaugh/Stanford Univ. Just as one extreme snowstorm in winter not meaning the world isn’t continuing to warm, one summer heatwave doesn’t prove it. That said, the trend is definitely towards more extreme heatwaves , as new research from Stanford University confirms. Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters , the scientists say that exceptionally long heatwav… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Organic Farming’s Balanced Ecosystems Naturally Control Pests Better Than Monoculture

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: USDA There are myriad advantages that organic farming has over chemical agriculture, from the health of the land to the quality of your food . Now a new study in the journal Nature details one aspect of that: The way in which the more balanced nature of ecosystems in organic … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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