Screenshot from Mozilla FirefoxLive Marketing loves wildlife. Consider products like Apple’s Safari browser, and the Snow Leopard operating system. There was a call last year for Apple to help save real-life snow leopards . Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser, must have been listening, because they’ve adopted real-life firefoxes. There’s such a thing? Yeh, and there’s even… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Take That, Apple! Mozilla Adopts Baby Firefoxes
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Image credit: Forum for the Future As New York’s efforts to create a livable city show , we are already seeing far-reaching changes to how our cities are organized—and not before time. But there is still an awful lot more to do. Yesterday I wrote about a new report detailing how megacities must change in the face of a population explosion . My initial post focused primarily on the six principles outlined for creating more wor… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ecotopia or Sprawling Nightmare? Four Scenarios for the Future of our Cities (video)
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Photo by danflo Sharks hanging out around Indonesia have a safe haven around the island of Raja Ampat in Indonesia, thanks to a new announcement that an incredible 17,760 square miles around the island has been declared a reserve. The reserve also encompasses one of the most biologically diverse marine areas in the world, so sharks aren’t the only animals who will benefit from the protections. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Shark Sanctuary Encompasses Entire Island, is a First in Indonesia
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Photo: mauricholas/ Maureen Leong-Kee , Flickr, CC Pollution has long been known to bear various impacts on animals’ reproductive behavior . But rarely is the effect so pronounced as what scientists have observed happening to bird populations that ingest the poisonous metal compound methylmercury. Researchers have found that when even low levels of the compound enter their diets, male birds choose to attempt to mate with other males, and snub females. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pollution Making ‘Male Birds Mate With Each Other’: Scientists
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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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Incredible Videos of Rare Big Cats Show Jaguar Fishing, Lion Cubs Swimming, and More (Slideshow)
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Hu2 wall stickers Stickers can be fun, but how eco-friendly is this new craze for decorating walls? We have found two brands that claim their vinyls to be eco-chic, and some even come with decorative eco-reminders; very clever! Hu2 in the UK has just launched the first Flat Sharing Rules wall stickers that don’t just help keeping everybody sane, but also saving energy and water…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Eco Reminders; Wall Stickers with a Poetic Message Help You Get Rid of Bad Habits (Photos)
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Images credit Zhao Kang Rents in Beijing are high, so designer Daihai Fei built himself a wonderful little green home that may well become a new icon for the Tiny House Movement. Tipster Spooky writes: Daihai Fei built his amazing egg-house on a bamboo frame, covered with various insulating materials, and topped with a layer of stitched bag. The bags themselves are filled with sawdust and g… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Chinese Student Lives In Tiny Green Egg House
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Photo credit: Polar Cruises / Creative Commons In the Arctic, polar bears have recently been observed swimming in icy water while carrying young cubs on their backs . It’s the result, researchers explained, of having to swim greater distances to find solid sea ice—and is an innovation that may be crucial for the survival of the species…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Polar Bear Mothers Spotted Swimming With Their Cubs on Their Backs
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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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Scotland’s Battle Over the Beaver
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Photo credit: Wikipedia /Creative Commons Lonesome George is quite a character. He’s a Pinta Island tortoise, and, as Brian noted when he visited a few years ago , he’s the last of this breed. Yep, that means when he’s gone, that’s it — his species will be lost to the world forever. That doesn’t mean that all hope for him or his kind is lost, though…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Ballad of Lonesome George, The Galapagos’ Most Famous Tortoise
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