Image credit: cygnus921 /Flickr Around the world, honeybee populations are shrinking. Some colonies suffer from infestations of parasitic mites , others, the widespread use of pesticides , and some struggle to cope with changing climatic conditions. But deep in the Sahara desert, one colony of bees lives on in blissful isolation, as it has for as many as 10,000 years…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Visit link:
Saharan Bees Survive 10,000 Year Isolation
Posted in Gossip, Hollywood, Hot Stuff, News
Tagged animals, beekeeping, bennyhollywood, Celebrity, colonies-suffer, flower-photo, green news, Hollywood, parasitic-mites, story-on-treehugger, the-full, widespread-use
Bikes, many of them stolen, pile up at the Amsterdam bike depot. Photo A.S. It’s practically a requirement these days to carry not one but two ponderous bike locks, yet city streets are still thick with bike thieves. A British insurance survey recently suggested a bike is stolen about every 65 seconds in the U.K. and Mike Cavanaugh of the London Cycling Campaign thinks theft turns people away from healthful cycling: “Bike theft is cited as the most common reason for people giving up cycling. In 2008 there were over 17,000 bikes reported stolen… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading here:
If Bike Theft Makes You Fat, Better Bike Parking Makes You Thin
Posted in Gossip, Hollywood, Hot Stuff, News
Tagged animals, bennyhollywood, bike accessories, bike friendly world, bikes, cavanaugh, Celebrity, common-reason, discovery, london-cycling, oil spill, still-thick, thinks-theft, turns-people
Image via MoGO A new iPhone app is helping turn citizens into assistants for rescue workers in the Gulf of Mexico. Called MoGO – short for Mobile Gulf Observatory – users can take photos of oiled or dead wildlife, tar balls and oil slicks and upload them into the database which pinpoints their location for rescue workers. The free app gives untrained citizens a way to significantly help in the rescue effort, and gives trained volunteers and scientists much needed help in keeping track of impacted wildlife…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Follow this link:
MoGO iPhone App Helps Citizens Report Oiled Wildlife in Gulf
Posted in Gossip, Hollywood, Hot Stuff, News
Tagged activism, animals, database-which, dead-wildlife, electronics, Iphone, keeping-track, location, mexico-called, mobile, mobile-gulf, office design, pollution, rescue, the-picture
Hilton Corniche Apartments & Hotel Residences Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Photo via Uggboy-photograph-world-sense For the UAE, water hasn’t been much of a problem so long as there is plenty of oil. With the wealth that oil provides, more water than one could possibly consume is whipped up in desalination plants and poured over golf courses and into lavish gardens and resorts. The per capita water use in Abu Dhabi, the wealthiest of the emirates, is as high as 550 liters a day, or around four times that of an average European citizen, and as too much fresh w… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Originally posted here:
United Arab Emirate’s Reliance on Desalination Spells Water Disaster
Posted in Gossip, Hollywood, Hot Stuff, News
Tagged animals, bennyhollywood, emirates-photo, geoscience, pollution, the-emirates, video, Water
Photo via mickeymox Researchers from Newcastle University have published a new study in Nature Geoscience illustrating that the chemical make-up of our early oceans may have delayed the evolution of life on our planet by as much as 1 billion years. Their research shows for the first time a chemical “layering” in the oceans that kept oxygen from reaching the deep ocean. That lack of oxygen may explain the long wait for development of life, and the sudden boom of animal life later on. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Follow this link:
Research Shows Ocean Chemistry Delayed Evolution by 1 Billion Years
Posted in Gossip, Hollywood, Hot Stuff, News
Tagged animals, chemical, geoscience, pollution, researchers, travel & nature, turtle-photo, video
A lucky Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle that didn’t get burned. Photo: Wikipedia, public domain . Destroying the Evidence? Kemp’s Ridley is a critically endangered species of sea turtle that can be found in the Gulf of Mexico. According to Mike Ellis (see the video interview below), BP has been keeping rescue teams from getting to the turtles and has even been burning them alive, along with other animals. Because Kemp’s Ridleys are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, killing or ha… Read the full story on TreeHugger
View post:
WTF? Is BP Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive? (Videos)
Posted in Gossip, Hollywood, Hot Stuff, News
Tagged animals, Celebrity, endangered, evidence, green news, public-domain, ridley, science & technology, turtle-photo, wikipedia
Image via wikipedia A very rare feather, the white-tipped tail feather of an extinct New Zealand bird called the huia, sold at auction last week for a whopping $5,880. The huia was last seen in 1907, which makes the tail feather understandably precious among collectors. Still, it was only estimated to be worth $550-700…that is until the bidding turned fierce. Ironically, it’s this passionate purchase of their tail feathers that led the huia to their extinction in the first place. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
See the rest here:
Feather of Extinct Bird Fetches Huge Price At Auction
Posted in Gossip, Hollywood, Hot Stuff, News
Tagged animals, bennyhollywood, bidding-turned, called-the-huia, extinction, green news, huia, makes-the-tail, tail, tail-feather, travel & nature, white
Image credit: Good There are countless reasons to avoid eating meat and, since the publication of his book Eating Animals , Jonathan Safran Foer has been a popular advocate of a meat-free lifestyle. Good sat down with the author to talk about going vegetarian…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Original post:
Good Talks to Jonathan Safran Foer About the Great Food Fight
Posted in Gossip, Hollywood, Hot Stuff, News
Tagged animals, author, avoid-eating, book, eating-animals, food & health, great-food, healthy, his-book, Hollywood, publication, safran-foer, vegetarian
Photo by lisatozzi via Flickr. In my social group of foreigners living in Istanbul , the high price of pork products — unpopular eats in a predominantly Muslim country — is a constant lament. But in the countries we hail from, according to the creators of a hard-hitting recent documentary, bacon , sau… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Read this article:
Forced to Cut Back, One Die-Hard Bacon Lover Learns to See the Merit in a Bit of Moderation
Posted in Gossip, Hollywood, Hot Stuff, News
Tagged animals, bennyhollywood, countries, discovery, food & health, Hollywood, muslim, recent-documentary, social, stars, story-on-treehugger, the-countries, the-creators, TMZ
A Brown Pelican covered in oil floats in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by Julie Dermansky. If you’re like me, you might be getting tired of seeing all the terrible images of the BP oil disaster and not being able to do anything about it. Well the Sierra Club’s got something for you: How about getting your friends and family together to watch our new DVD on the oil spill and discuss how to end our country’s oil addiction?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Read the original:
Don’t Just Watch the Disaster in the Gulf Unfold, Do Something to Help
Posted in Gossip, Hollywood, Hot Stuff, News
Tagged animals, bennyhollywood, country, getting-tired, gulf oil spill, Hollywood, mexico-photo, oil spill, oil-addiction, stars, take action, terrible
Breaking Sports Video
Pac-12 NCAA Sports
Justin Bieber Fan Site Breaking News
