Image credit: Paul Hamilton / RAEI Around the world, frogs are in peril. Threatened by pollution and habitat loss, changing climates and epidemic disease, the outlook for many species is dire—with conservationists locked in a fatal race to uncover the key to frog survival. Every year, however, new species are discovered and frogs long thought to be extinct are found again.
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10 Strange New Frog Species (Slideshow)
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Image credit: Flight.org Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary may come close to rivaling arch-climate skeptic Lord Monckton when it comes to craziness. Having ranted and raved about eco-loonies in the past , he’s now laying firmly into the scientific community—labeling man-made climate change as “horses**t”, and claiming that the scientific community… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ryanair Boss: Scientists Have "Nearly Always Been Wrong"
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Images via Tuvie Well here’s one very interesting (and sketchy way) to charge your air purifier. Design student Yuan Gu must have a really hyperactive cat to dream up the Wool Ball Hybrid Humidifier. To make a product that is both “eco friendly and energy saving,” Gu decided it would be great if the energy your cats put into playing with balls of wool were instead put toward batting this thing around the living room floor, drawing up enough charge to filter out the dust…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Humidifier and Air Purifier Powered by… Your Cat?
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Image Source: Boxed Water Is Better Dear Pablo: I recently saw drinking water sold in a milk carton. It doesn’t seem any better to me than bottled water. Is boxed water really better as the company claims? In past articles I have shown that boxed beverages have their advantages and are indeed better from an environmental perspective
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Ask Pablo: Is Boxed Water Really Better?
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For ethical fashion label Edun , founded by U2 front man Bono and his wife Ali Hewson , achieving their goal of creating more jobs in Africa, one of the company’s founding principles back in 2005, has to be simultaneously developed with creating a product that is in high demand. On September 11, Edun showed their S… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New York Fashion Week: A Fresh Look at Edun Spring 2011 (Slideshow)
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photo via flickr My home state of California couldn’t do it, but border town Brownsville, TX, has taken action and banned plastic bags. The ban goes into effect January 5. Shoppers who forget their reusable bags can buy plastic bags for an extra buck. Pharmacies, hardware stores and dry cleaners are exempt. Plastic bags are a petroleum product and can take over 1,000 years to biodegrade. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Brownsville, Texas Bans Plastic Bags
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Tasmania’s Tahune Forest Reserve. Image Credit: ctudball via Flickr In a major victory for the Australian environmental movement, Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited announced on Thursday that it will no longer engage in native forest logging. Instead, the company, which is the world’s largest woodchip exporter, will turn to plantation-based products. So why has the timber giant suddenly turned over a new leaf? They’ve been under protest for years now, losing legal battles against environmental activist… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A Blow to Native Forest Logging: Major Australian Company Drops the Practice
Deerlayer cover. Image credit: Wikipedia As one commenter on this trend states, seeking constitutional protection of the right to fish and hunt seems to be something of a ‘tempest in a tea pot.’ PETA celebrities have Deerlayer’s leather stockings in a bundle. How else could you explain 10 US states amending their constitutions to protect hunting and fishing? There is no National Fishing Rod Association, after all. Maybe it’s more than naked PET… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ultimate Locavorism: Ten US States Constitutionally Protect The Right To Hunt & Fish
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OPEC Net Oil Export Revenues . Image credit: USEIA Based on projections from the EIA report, September 2010 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could earn $731 billion of net oil export revenues in 2010. The USA is a big OPEC customer. Separately. according to projections by Suite101 , total US crude oil imports will cost an estimated $181 bi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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OPEC Economies Doing Fine – Our Double Dip Is Their Double Peak
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photo: Josh Beasley via flickr This one’s been inbound for a couple of years now, the United States objecting to the European Union’s plans to make foreign airlines start paying for the carbon emissionsM from landing and taking off there from 2012, but as the New York Times reports, the US is upping the pres… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US Objects to Its Airlines Having to Pay For Their Pollution in EU Emission Trading Scheme
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