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How Wild is North America? Infographic Lays It Out (Video)

A portion of the infographic built by The Big Wild Just how much wilderness is left on the North American continent? It doesn’t seem like much as you drive across the US and see almost all urban or suburban developments, or farmland, mining or other ways people have snapped up all the free space. Where has it all gone and is there any left? According to The Big Wild, a conservation movement that connects people with activist opportunities for the preservation of wilderness, “Nearly one quarter of the planet’s wild forests are inside our borders; 20% of the world’s fresh wat… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Historical Building Gives Hints About Ancient Fauna

Reliefs of birds on the outside of the church of St Gregory of Tigran Honents in Ani, Turkey. Photo by Jennifer Hattam If you weren’t already convinced of the importance of preserving historical monuments, here’s another good reason to keep the past part of our present: Old buildings, and specifically the artwork used to adorn them, can provide valuable clues about the environment of the

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13 Dolphins Wait for Freedom

Image credit: jurvetson /Flickr This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post . With dead dolphins washing up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, wouldn’t it be great if you knew you could help save a few? Thirteen, to be exact…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Animals Playing Soccer (World Cup South Africa 2010) Futbol (football)

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Animals Playing Soccer (World Cup South Africa 2010) Futbol (football)

Bluefin Tuna Doesn’t Stand a Chance Against EU’s Industrial Fishing Boats

A commercial tuna fishing vessel. Photo: Wikipedia , CC. Are We Waiting for the Total Annihilation of Bluefin Tuna to Act? Bluefin tuna is already critically endangered and probably shouldn’t even be fished in the first place, and it now has to face the poisoning of its spawning ground in the Atlantic by the BP oil spi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Humpback Whales Have BFFs Just Like You

Photo: MMS , Public domain. Will You Be My Friend? Humpback whales are the first baleen whales known to form lasting bonds, according to scientists who study the giant sea mammals. This tells us something new about the social and emotional intelligence of our massive cousins, and also gives us one more reason why whaling is wrong. “Individual female humpbacks reunite each summer to feed and swim alongside one another in the Gulf of St Lawrence, off Canada The finding raises the possibility that commercial whaling may have b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Less Than 1% of Oil-Soaked Birds Survive

Photo via Boston “Kill, don’t clean” oiled birds No, that’s not the opinion of the most heartless oil spill expert ever, or BP CEO Tony Hayward letting fly another tactless gaffe . It’s the actual recommendation of one oil spill expert and animal biologist who says that once birds are thoroughly oiled, the best course of action is to put them out of their misery. Even if all the crude is scrubbed from their feathers, she says, oiled bir… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Coast Guard Admiral Says BP Oil Spill Clean Up Will Take Years

In the past weeks since the start of the Deepwater Horizon disaster I’ve gotten asked on countless occasions how long it’s going to take to clean up all the leaking oil. Considering that, despite efforts to stop the gushing oil , this is all still ongoing this is an open-ended question to some degree. However, US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen has thrown his hat into t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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From an Extinct Rabbit to a Dwindling Beetle: Endangered Animal Portraits by Joel Sartore (Slideshow)

Photo credit: Joel Sartore/” Rare ” If a picture is worth a thousand words, then these up-close-and-personal shots of extinct and endangered species from photographer Joel Sartore must be just about priceless. From the last living Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit to least tern chicks only a few hours old (that’s them, above) see how stark backgrounds and careful shots can result in a whole new way to see the world.

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Elephant Seals Recruited to Track Ocean Health for Scientists

Photo credit: Joachim Plötz, Alfred Wegener Institute Bull elephant seals are well known for their size and earth-shaking fights during mating season. But what is also notable about them is their long trips to sea. Every year from March to April the males of the only reproduction colony of the Southern elephant seal in the Antarctic come to the South Shetland Islands for moulting, after which they return to sea and don’t come to land again until six months later for mating season in the Antarctic spring. This year during the tiny window of time that the b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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