Images Credit John Picken Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune , wonders if a green parking garage is really an oxymoron, like “kosher ham, a peacekeeping missile, or the World Series-winning Cubs.” He looks at the HOK designed Greenway Garage in Chicago and doesn’t think much of the idea, suggesting that it removes the guil… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Is A Green Parking Garage Like A Kosher Ham?
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Photo: Steve Evans , Wikimedia, CC As if Mondays weren’t depressing enough, there’s this bit of news to start off your day: Tigers could be entirely extinct in the wild just over a decade. There are only 3,200 tigers left, outside of captivity. At least 1,000 were killed over the last decade by poaching alone. Many more are threatened by habitat loss caused by human development. If this trajectory continues, one of the most recognizable and universally-beloved species on the plane… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Tigers Could Be Extinct in 12 Years
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Photo via video from WGN-TV Most of the time when a city has a rodent problem, they call in human exterminators. But Chicago seems to be testing out something slightly more… natural. After spotting a coyote running down State Street in Chicago, residents became aware of a project the city is testing out that includes allowing GPS-fitted coyotes to run free in the city specifically for them to gobble up problematic pests like rats, mice and rabbits. Video of the wily coyote after the jump. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Chicago Using GPS-Collared Coyotes to Control Rodents?
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Credit: P_Linehan / Creative Commons If you thought that massive creatures disappeared when dinosaurs became extinct, think again: From this super-sized frog to 1,000-pound snakes to 8-foot tall birds, the giants of the animal world are still all around us. But for many of them, size doesn’t protect them from poaching, habitat loss, and other threats — which means some of these animals could be our next big extinctions.
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When Size Matters: The Planet’s Largest Animals (Slideshow)
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Photo by syntheticaperture Green turtles have been battling habitat loss, the dangers of fishermen , and pollution in a loosing battle for decades, and in Malaysia they’ve faced a take-over of their beaches by tourists and egg-plunderers. Still, there’s been a shift in their luck, albeit a precarious one. Green turtles are returning to Malaysia in the hundreds, but experts say that if the destruction of their habitat isn’t stopped im… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Green Turtles Return to Malaysia But Face An Uncertain Future
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Photo via guzer.com One hot day in Lincoln, Montana a moose decided to cool off — and logically headed for the nearest body of water. In this case, it happened to be a child’s swimming pool. According to the BBC , “large animals are often hit hardest by loss of habitat because they need large areas in which to have a healthy breeding population.” From foxes jumping on trampolines to a drunken badger disrupting traffic,… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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When Animals Encounter Humans: Habitat Loss Stories, Both Tragic and Comic
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