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Oil Hits New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via MSNBC Lake Pontchartrain lies just north of New Orleans. The famous lake and Louisiana icon suffered from pollution until restoration efforts brought it back to health in the 1990s. It once again became an important fishery and popular recreational destination. Then it got hit by Hurricane Katrina. Now, of course, it stands to be threatened all over again. Oil has just made landfall there, with some 1,000 tar balls washing ashore, and 1,700 pounds of crude having been cleaned up so far. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New EcoLabel Index Sorts Out Validity, Accountability & Transparency of Green Certification Programs

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Joshua W via flickr The sheer proliferation of eco-labeling, certification and recognition programs, covering everything from food, to clothing, to energy and more, is bewildering–even to people who follow this stuff professionally. It’s hard to keep up with it all and sometimes just as hard to sort out what labels can be trusted and which need improvement. Which is where the just-launched Ecolabel Index comes in. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World’s Largest Oil Skimmer Ready to Clean the Gulf (Video)

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Daily Press The world’s biggest oil skimmer is now in the Gulf, and is preparing to take part in the cleanup operations. But it’s kind of hard to conceptualize what the biggest oil skimmer in the world, which is 400 yards long (a quarter of a mile) and 100 yards wide, actually looks like. Unless you’re standing on it. Or at least watching a video of some reporter standing on it. And so: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What Do Woolly Mammoths and Whales Have in Common?

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons 15,000 years ago the ecosystems of North America suffered a dramatic disruption . Within 5,000 years, dozens of Pleistocene species—including herbivors like mammoths, mastodons, ground sloths, and camels, and predators like lions, dire wolves, and two species of saber-toothed cats—went extinct. In all, two-thirds of the continent’s large mammals were lost during this period. And the disruption has direct analogs to shifts occurring in North America today…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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For Desert Bats, The Secret to Survival Is Skin Deep

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo credit Shai Pilosof, via press release

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World’s Smallest Whale Population Drops to 30 Individuals

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The elusive North Pacific right whale may be too depleted to save. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons As the world continues to struggle over a plan to control—if not stop—commercial whaling, one of the industry’s victims struggles for survival. The North Pacific right whale—once numbering in the tens of thousands—was nearly driven to extinction by whaling and poaching. Now, it is likely the most endangered species of whale in the world—a species that it may be too late to save…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Green Groups Hit The Airwaves Hoping To Use Spill To Prompt Climate Acton In the Senate

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo via flickr The League of Conservation Voters (LCV), VoteVets.org Action Fund, Sierra Club and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today went live with some hard hitting TV ads designed to pressure targeted Senators to support climate and energy action. The $11 million ad campaign names Sens. Burr (NC), Johanns (NE), Nelson (NE), McCaskill (MO) and Reid (NV), and highlights the recent vote on what the groups are calling Sen. Murkowski’s “Big Oil Bailout” resolution, which would have stripped the EPA of its auth… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Who Wins in a Conservation Competition?

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Competition is a driving force in nature, but can it be a driving force to save nature? Image credit: mikebaird /Flickr Among birders, the desire to identify as many species as possible in a day, month, or year is what separates the interested from the obsessed. In The Big Year , Rick Obamscik tells the story of a group of competitors racing across the country to secure the coveted American Birding Association championship. Now, some conservationists are using this passion to aid protection efforts…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Critically Endangered Indian Vultures Bred for First Time in Captivity

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

White-rumped vulture, photo: Lip Kee Yap via flickr Some hope for three species of endangered Indian vultures: Conservationists have successfully bred all of them in captivity for the first time. Considering that at current rates of decline–brought about in no small part because of a painkiller used in cattle (more on that below)–these vultures would be globally extinct within 10 years, the importance of this seems clear. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Drop the Harpoon! Whale-Watching is Good Business

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via TopNews New research into the whale-watching industry is confirming what we’ve known all along–that the world’s largest mammal is worth more alive than it is dead . Sure, there may be a dwindling number of folks salivating at the thought of whale, think… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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