photo: praegerr via flickr Burning for some weeks now, the fires in Russia are not only causing Moscow’s daily death rate to double as smog engulfs the city, but are also emitting tons of greenhouse gas emissions as drained peatlands burn. What’s worse,
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Russia’s Peatland Fires May Continue Burning Underground Through Winter
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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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Massive Berry Bank in Russia One Step Closer to Demolition
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photo: Ashok Prabhakaran via flickr Now this is really the spirit: The Tribune (Chandigarh, India) reports that Tirumala’s Sri Venkateswara temple , the richest Hindu in the world with some 60,000 people visiting daily, will soon be a plastic-free zone, after the state government of Andhra Pradesh decided to ban the use of plastic products there. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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World’s Richest Hindu Temple Doesn’t Just Ban Plastic Bags, Bans Plastics
Photo via Bay News 9 The $20 billion escrow fund that Obama negotiated with BP is now being finalized, and BP is preparing to deposit the first $3 billion into it. The fund will help pay for the many claims being filed by Gulf residents who have suffered personal damage, lost their jobs, or had their businesses ruined by the BP spill. But the process, predictably, isn’t going so smoothly for everyone. Out of the 145,000 claims filed so far, BP has yet to respond to nearly 40,000 of them — leaving thousands of businesses and livelihoods in the balance. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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$20 Billion BP Spill Fund Finalized, But 40,000 Claims Still Ignored
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Last week, we reported that a Republican candidate for the Colorado governorship had declared that Denver’s bike-sharing program was a threat to our personal freedoms . Since then, Tea Party-backed Dan Maes has faced some scrutiny in the press for his ambiguous statements: Along with threatening our freedoms, he claimed that bike-sharing was part of a deeper plot to turn the city into a “UN community”. When asked what he meant in a television interview, Maes had trouble explaining himself — and dug himse… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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GOP Candidate: Bike-Sharing Program May be Unconstitutional (Video)
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Image: Sylvar, Flickr After the Environmental Working Group exposed a study claiming that chemical manufacturers overuse the trade secret protections provided in current law, the EPA is taking action. Proposed changes to the Inventory Update Reporting (IUR) rules will require manufacturers to substantiate their trade secret claims up front, with their update report. EPA touts the proposed changes as part of their “
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Image credit: UNEP I asked before why so many people hate environmentalists , and concluded that it might have something to do with green living as passive aggressive preaching , disasterbation , not to mention the ever-familiar but oh-so-annoying
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Image credit: SocialBicycles Whether we are talking about grassroots “peer2peer” bike rental , or multi-million dollar public bike share schemes , there’s no doubt that these initiatives are revolutionizing the way we think about mobility in many cities. But managing access to bikes can be an expensive headache. Luckily, the rise of mobile computing is helping out here too. One proposed scheme is looking to take wirele… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can GPS Slash Costs of Bike Sharing Schemes? (Video)
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Image via Wikipedia If you’re a beach goer, you might recognize those little crystal- clear blobs that often wash up on the sand in the mornings as salps. While often mistaken for jellyfish, they’re actually the ocean’s “vacuum cleaners,” sucking up all kinds of particles as food and excreting carbon-rich pellets that sink to the sea floor. Researchers know that the fairly benign creatures are actually quite important for carbon capture and storage in the oceans , but recent discoveries on what they eat show … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ocean’s Tiny Carbon "Vacuum Cleaners" More Important to Carbon Capture Than We Thought
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Photos of the “mobile ethnic garden” via Christina Cho . Compared to learning a new language or traveling to another country, digging into a plate of Chinese greens or whipping up a spicy serving of salsa may seem like a superficial shortcut to cultural understanding. But food, and the rituals surrounding it, is often so close to the heart of a people’s history and worldv… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Student-Designed ‘Mobile Ethnic Garden’ Brings People, Cultures Together Over Food
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