Photo via The Telegraph Old and new animals made the news this week, with babies — including giraffes and lions — joining the family and brand-new species of spider and shrew turning up, while rediscovered reptiles, whales, and amphibians surprised researchers. Read more about these animal stories (and more) in our slideshow.
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The Week in Animal Photos: Unlikely Friends, Creative Elephants, and More (Slideshow)
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Photo via Sarah Depper As much as 95% of the corals in the Philippines have suffered bleaching after the 2009-2010 El Niño event that boosted the temperatures in the Indian Ocean and waters off Southeast Asia during the beginning of this year. Warmer water is often responsible for bleaching (the die-off of symbiotic algae living on the corals) and we usually hear about corals impacted in the Caribbean. But such a massive bleaching as this in the Philippines is a rare and particularly distressing news item as the possibility for recovery of b… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Massive Coral Bleaching Damages 95% of Corals in Philippines
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All Images Courtesy of Pratt Institute At an exhibition at the Pratt Insitute’s Brooklyn Campus last Thursday, two graduate industrial design students presented to the public their ambitious idea for revolutionizing disaster relief efforts worldwide. The students, Mike Seto and David Kim, focused on the recovery stage of relief, rather than the immediate post-disaster response, and the result is (project) PL : a way to provide disaster victims with communal, transportable, a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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NYC Grad Students Reimagine Disaster Relief (Photos)
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Photo via CGI 2010 The Clinton Global Initiative is a gathering of heads of state, businesses, activists, celebrities, and nonprofits from around the world that’s designed to foster progress through “commitments” — binding vows to back projects dedicated to the greater good. Commitments focus on everything from health to empowering women and girls. And every year, there’s a strong focus on sustainability and the environment. The often exceedingly well-funded projects announced this year… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The 7 Best Green Initiatives From Bill Clinton’s 2010 Summit
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spacewalker by Dark, displayed by Eurolite all lousy images by Lloyd Alter We become so jaded and blase´. A few years ago, walking through the Light Canada Show (part of IIDEX and the Green Living Festival in Toronto) I was bug-eyed at all of the wonderful innovation in LED lighting. But in just a few years they have become mainstream and commodified, and I really found the pickings to be slim, mostly just another strip light or street light or ceiling. I know that this i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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LED Lighting Has Become Almost Boring, and That’s A Good Thing
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Image Credit: mattk1979 via Flickr Global warming has done a lot of damage this summer, from deadly flooding in Pakistan to the heat wave of the millennium in Russia. Now, the New York Times reports , there’s another vict… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bad News for Coral Reefs: Global Warming Causes Bleaching & Death
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Photo via: Flickr/ tomo908us It’s hard to see Japan’s sunny side of affairs beyond the red pool of blood in Taiji’s cove. It’s currently in the middle of peak dolphin killing season. When I read the following piece in Resurgence by Junko Edahiro, a Japanese environmental activist and journalist, however, a tiny glimmer of hope arose. She reports on three cultural eco-trends brewing … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Japanese Trends Worth Watching: De-ownership, Demonetization & De-materialism
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Photo: Vattenfall Thanet Offshore Wind Farm You never know with big, expensive and technically difficult project. They have a thousand ways to die, from cost overruns to changing market conditions to insurmountable technical problems. Two years ago, Matt wrote about Vattenfall’s plans to build a huge wind farm off the South-East coast of England, and today, I’m very happy to see that the completed Thanet offshore wind farm is ready to go. The £880 million (about $1.4 billion) Thanet … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm (300 MW) is Inaugurated Off England’s Coast
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photo: Nomad Tales via flickr If you ever need a great example of technological leapfrogging in practice, here it is: In the Indian state of Orissa , the state government has decided to electrify approximately an additional 2,000 villages by March 2012. But rather than hook them up to coal-fired power plants, it will be using decentralized solar power. Biomass, wind power and a variety of small-scale hydropower projects are also… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Techo-Leapfrogging At Its Best: 2,000 Indian Villages Skip Fossil Fuels, Get First Electricity From Solar
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Photo via StringBike The Bike, Unchained A group of designers in Hungary have done away with what has long been a staple of bicycle design , those oily old chains, with their creation, the StringBike . Instead of being propelled forward the traditional way, this novel new bike utilizes a clever symmetrical rope and pulley system that may make cycling safer , smoothe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Designers Create a "More Efficient" Chainless Bike
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