Photo: Bruno Rico, via UltimoSegunda Last week, a boat in the Amazon spilled around 210,000 gallons of popcorn into a major river , making the surface of the water look a bit like the floor of a movie theater . Fortunately, it didn’t take long before an oil company’s emerge… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oil Workers Scramble to Clean a Giant Popcorn Spill
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Images via Yanko Design Some of the best design ideas make simple things even simpler. Post-It notes are already such handy inventions, but you have to buy separate pads for different uses. But this simple design concept allows you to tear off just the right sized post-it note for the job. Less waste, less buying variously sized notepads. And the smartest part is where the designers put the adhesive… … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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“Lose the animals, lose the ecosystems. Lose the ecosystems, game over.” Caroline Fraser touched down in more than a dozen countries to understand what rewilding really means. Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution looks at how this radical approach is being put to work, pulling endangered species back from the brink, relinking critical habitats, and keeping the biological mechanisms of the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Caroline Fraser on Rewilding the World (Podcast)
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On Sunday, nearly 136 million Brazilians will be heading to the polls to elect a new president, and for a country on the rise with such a wealth of natural beauty , there may be more at stake than just politics. Among the leading candidates, one has put sustainable development at the top of her agenda. Meet Marina Silva — she wants to be Brazil’s Green new president…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Marina Silva Wants to Be Brazil’s Greenest President
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Photo: Carol Laiate Traveling through the heart of the Brazilian Amazon , one might expect to run across many strange and fascinating things — but an American ghost town probably wouldn’t be one of them. Yet deep in the world’s largest rainforest lies the abandoned remnants of Fordlândia , a remote US-style factory… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via WalkingtheAmazon.com 853 days ago, Ed Stafford took the first steps of what would become a record-breaking trek, following the length of the Amazon river as it winds its way across the South American continent. After experiencing countless insect bites , violent run-ins with hostile natives, and his fair-share of folks who doubted he could do it, in a matter of days Stafford is… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Perhaps the most striking thing about flying over the Amazon rainforest is how untouched it looks; there’s no checkered quilt of farmland or veins of highway. From horizon to horizon it’s nothing but an impossibly vast sea of green , inspiring the same sense of minuteness one might feel gazing at the Milky Way. At that height, the Amazon is as impressive and humbling as anything I’ve seen, seeming to be one giant breathing thing, untouched. Yet deep within this forest
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Photo by poolie So just how does garbage get from your hand all the way out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean where it swirls in a soup of trashy debris — or if not there, then to one of the 4 other trash gyres in the oceans across the globe? Cartoonist Jim Toomey decided to send two of his characters off on an adventure to show you in the comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon . The journey starts in the fictional Kapupu Lagoon by the island of Kapupu in the South Pacific Ocean, west of the Elabaob Islands in the Palauan archipelago… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cartoonist Explains the Pacific Garbage Patch With Talking Sealife (Slideshow)
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