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Massive Berry Bank in Russia One Step Closer to Demolition

Scientists will likely be forced to say “Do svidaniya” to a massive cache of rare genetic samples. Image credit: With a single decision yesterday, Russia’s Supreme Arbitration Court put the Pavlovsk Experimental Station —home to more than 5,000 rare and unique plant samples—in jeopardy. Under the ruling, the land on which the non-profit facility sits would be sold to commercial developers who are expected to bulldoze the buildings to make room for housing…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Research Reveals Why Chimpanzees Attack Humans

Image credit: barnoid /Flickr Chimpanzees may be humans’ closest relatives in the animal kingdom but when the two species are forced to live alongside one another, the relationship is not always rosy. Even in Bossou, Guinea, where chimpanzees are revered, conflict sometimes breaks out. While the residents of Bossou are required by their religious beliefs to defend chimpanze… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Turtles Return to Malaysia But Face An Uncertain Future

Photo by syntheticaperture Green turtles have been battling habitat loss, the dangers of fishermen , and pollution in a loosing battle for decades, and in Malaysia they’ve faced a take-over of their beaches by tourists and egg-plunderers. Still, there’s been a shift in their luck, albeit a precarious one. Green turtles are returning to Malaysia in the hundreds, but experts say that if the destruction of their habitat isn’t stopped im… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Turkey and Syria Bond Over Saving the Bald Ibis

A Northern bald ibis in the Vienna Zoo. Photo by Roberto Verzo via Flickr. It’s got an awfully ugly mug to have inspired any kind of romantic association, but our guide at the bird sanctuary in Birecik, on the Euphrates River in southeastern Turkey, waxed poetic about how the bald ibises resident there mate for life and return after their annual migration on

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Myanmar Creates World’s Largest Tiger Sanctuary

Photo via Flickr There’s some surprising news today out of Myanmar, the nation formerly known as Burma. The country, which is controlled by a brutal military regime , has nonetheless decided to created the largest tiger sanctuary in the world. With only 3,000 left in the wild, tigers are among the most endangered animals on the planet. This new reserve in Burma will span 8,500 square miles, and will protect at least 100 tigers — that is, if the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Reforestation Captures More Carbon Than Industrial Tree Farms

A hoop pine monoculture plantation in Australia. Credit: Dr. John Kanowski. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Australian researchers examining environmental restoration projects have found that reforesting damaged rainforests captures carbon more efficiently than softwood industrial monoculture plantations — or big

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Eating, Biking, and Being Merry (Even Without A Bike)

Photo credit A. Streeeter. This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge . Sometimes cyclists in their eagerness to spread the gospel of biking forget a few of the basics of human nature. We tell people, even brag about, how fantastic cycling is, forgetting that nobody radically changes their lifestyle or ditches their major mode of… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Historic Marine Life Census Counts Over 250,000 Species

Photo Credit: I. MacDonald Back in February, we were excited to know that the Census of Marine Life — a massive undertaking of accounting for all live in the ocean — had started to wrap up . But details on findings were still under wraps. Just yesterday the researchers finally released a report of the marine life found in 25 key areas of the world, with over 10,000 species in… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Four White Tiger Cubs = Quadruple Cuteness (Video)

Three of the four new white tiger cubs at the Serengeti Safari Park in Hodenhagen, central Germany. Picture: AFP/Jochen Luebke. Source: PerthNow As they get measured and weighed at their public debut, the four new white tiger cubs at a German wildlife park yowl and fuss like common alley cats whose tail… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lee Doren of How the World Works Slams Annie Leonard’s Story of Cosmetics

Image: How the World Works critiques The Story of Cosmetics Lee Doren, at How the World Works , has produced a critique of Annie Leonard’s The Story of Cosmetics . Always wanting to hear both sides of the story, we took a look. We discovered the usual arguments against consumer safety regulations. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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