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National Conservation Lands Face Threat from Vandals and Looters

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Canyons of the Ancients. Image Credit: Bureau of Land Management Southwest Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients is home to the greatest known concentration of archaeological sites in the United States. However, though it is protected as part of the National Conservation Lands , this ancient home of the Anasazi people is in trouble, and it’s not alone. Overseen by the Conservation Lands Foundation , the Na… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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PETA Butter and Jelly Sandwich, Anyone?

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Ecorazzi In a further effort to provide animal-cruelty-free food options to consumers, PETA slapped their logo on a jar of peanut butter to remind eaters that yes, there are well-loved vegan options for lunch. They didn’t however, slap their logo on any vegan-friendly bread, the more obvious area where consumers would need help quickly eyeballing options that are animal product-free. What is PETA up to with this new label?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NASA Satellites Reveal Connection Between Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation and Wild Fires (Video)

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Eggs&Beer Mountain pine beetles have been a problem for many years , especially the last decade. Warming temperatures have helped the destructive insect move into new territories. Their booming numbers and rapid spread have meant death for large patches of forests. Now NASA satellites have been able to detest these masses of forests killed off by the beetles and researchers have looked at how the damage done by the beetles is linked to forest fires — or as N… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Obama Aims $50 Billion Stimulus at Nation’s Transit

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via California High-Speed Rail Authority In his Labor Day speech two days ago, the president announced plans for a $50 billion stimulus package that would take aim at updating the country’s lagging transportation infrastructure. He called for Congress to approve an infusion of funds for highway, air traffic control, and, yes, high speed rail projects, that would lead to the “immediate” creation of jobs and give a boost to the economy. Obama said that the bill would be paid for by eli… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Small Networks of Marine Reserves Better Than Single Large Reserves for Preserving Fish & Coral

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Johnny Bahru via flickr. Large marine reserves aren’t working to protect fish or coral–and therefore fishermen’s livelihoods in the long term–and we should collectively shift towards more small reserves with fishing allowed in between. That’s the word from the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health ‘s Peter Sale. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Technical Look At Termite Mounts Foretells Changes in Africa’s Ecosystems

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by sheilaellen Despite their reputation as pests, termites are actually fascinating creatures particularly for their complex social structures. But that isn’t the only thing that hast attracted the attention of scientists lately. It seems that by watching where termites decide to build mounds, secrets to the ecological changes of Africa’s savanna are revealed. Researchers at the Carnegie Instution’s Department of Global Ecology mapped over 40,000 termite mounds across 192 square miles of savanna, and through their imaging and analysis of the mounds, they’ve found … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Extinct Fox Turns Up Again in California

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Keith Slausen / US Forest Service The Sierra Nevada red fox was thought to be extinct, until three weeks ago anyway. U.S. Forest Service biologists captured photos of the fox with a camera set up on a trail, and took DNA samples of saliva pulled from a bait bag the fox bit into to experts at the University of California, Davis. And yep, we can put one extinct species back on the books, at least for now. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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TED Talk: Rachel Sussman Photographs The World’s Oldest Living Things (Video)

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

A map of the planet’s oldest living things, via Rachel Sussman What are the oldest living things on the planet? If you’re thinking 200-year-old tortoises, well, those are just whippersnappers compared to the organisms that give Methuselah a run for his money. Rachel Sussman has traveled the planet photographing living creatures that have celebrated at least their 2,000th birthday. She’s found 500,000-year-old actinobacteria in the Siberian permafrost, and a 5,000-year-old bristle cone pine in California. Her photographs are meant to do two things: 1) show us these miracles of life on our planet … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Hail the Whale! See And Hear The Blues Gathered Off The Coast Of Long Beach

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo from one of Captain Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari Boat Tours In the past week, copious amounts of planktonic krill have drawn large groups of blue whales off the coast of Long Beach in Southern California. As many as 25 whales have been spotted from the shore. Dan Salas, captain of Harbor Breeze Cruises’ 65-foot vessel, told reporters that recently as many as 100 blue whales have been spotted swimming in the wate… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Asian Elephants Get a New Home at the Smithsonian National Zoo

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image Credit: Mehgan Murphy, National Zoo If you’ve been to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. lately, you may have noticed that they’ve been working on the first stage of their “Elephant Trails” project- a bold initiative to build a complex of indoor and outdoor habitats for the zoo’s Asian elephants that will allow the endangered animals to thrive. Phase I, which opened to the public yesterday, includes two new outdoor yards and an elephant barn, which is

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