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NYC Mayor Wants Massive Bike-Sharing Program

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

NYC’s bike-share is likely to be similar to other existing programs. The one pictured here is in Taipei. Photo: Flickr , CC Starting with 10,500 Bikes, Then Increasing to 49,000 Biking in New York City has been growing at a good clip in recent years ( check out this graph ), something that the local authorities have been encouraging with new infrastructure and policies. But something in missing from NYC’s bike culture: a bike-sharing program. That… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vanishing of the Bees: Film Documents Ongoing Honeybee Decline (Video)

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Vanishing Bees Honeybees have had a hard time of late. Yet while Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) was all over the news last year, this year the media have found other crises to focus on. Sadly, that doesn’t mean the problem has gone away—in fact, Planet 100 reported only this week that h oneybee colonies are continuing to disappear at alarming rates. Now, on the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Week in Pictures: Nearly 80% of Oil Still Threatens Ecosystem, Surfer Saves a Stranded Shark, Albino Peacocks, and More (Slideshow)

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

In the wake of the Gulf oil spill, a new report from the University of Georgia and the Georgia Sea Grant reveals that the amount of oil remaining in the water is far higher than reported. In fact 70-79% of oil not captured at the wellhead by BP still poses a threat to the ecosystem; that’s 2.9-3.2 million barrels of oil still in the water. In other green news, the Global Footprint Network tells us that tomorrow is Earth Overshoot Day–every single thing we collectively do past this date depletes environmental capital, puts us into ecological debt. We may as well call this the “Animal Issue”: click through for photos… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Lucky Koala Hit By Car Walks Away Without a Scratch

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via 9 News Not only is this koala bear one of the cutest animals on the planet, it just may be among the luckiest too. Defying the odds normally stacked against wildlife in an encounter with a fast moving vehicle , this koala bear survived being hit by a car travelling upwards of 50 mph — a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Afghanistan & Sub-Saharan Africa Have World’s Greatest Food Security Risk: New Report

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

image: Maplecroft New analysis shows Afghanistan as well as several sub-Saharan African nations as having the greatest food security risk in the world, classified as ‘extreme risk’ (red in the image above). Furthermore, 36 of the 50 most at-risk nations in the world are found in Africa…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Stunning Underwater Plants on the Ocean Floor (Slideshow)

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The ocean is full of uncharted territory — and of breathtaking natural wonders that look like they’d be more at home on Pandora than in the blue depths just off the beach where you spent your summer vacation. These stunning underwater plants offer an ethereal beauty hard to reproduce on land. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NYC’s Empire State Building is Going Dark this Fall to Save Migratory Birds

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Wikipedia , CC The Lights Out NY Campaign Just in New York City, about 90,000 migratory birds die each year by colliding with buildings. The Lights Out campaign, which started in Chicago and is organized by the Audubon society , aims to save migratory birds by dimming the lights of skyscrapers during the peak migratory season each Fall. This year many iconic NYC buildings will participate, … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gross, Weird, and Frightening Fashion from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Trashy Lingerie, Rats on the Catwalk, and More (Photos)

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image courtesy of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! A dress made from slimy salami and meaty bacon? An entire wardrobe made from one woman’s hair? A 22-story pair of pants? These tales and more in Ripley’s Believe It or Not’s recently published book called “Enter If You Dare!” The annual collection of odd and extraordinary tales from around the globe offers up fashion stories, from the fascinating and frightening to the excessive and extreme. Click through for more — but only — if you dare!… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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World’s Largest Ice Art on Siberia’s Lake Baikal

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images from the anthropologist Lake Baikal is the “pearl of Siberia” , the world’s deepest freshwater lake. Because of its age and isolated location in Siberia, it contains unusual collections of freshwater flora and fauna and 1,700 plant and animal species. It has had a controversial history with Russian oligarchs plotting to destroy it and activists’ offices being ransacked. However in the depths of winte… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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10 Real Life Sea Monsters (Slideshow)

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via News.com.au It’s time to get out of the water. Not all the fish in the sea are as cute and lovable as Nemo and Dory: Some of them are downright monstrous. From two-foot-long isopods and eyeless crustaceans to the skeletal anglerfish and human-sized jellyfish, the deep waters of the world contain countless species that we know very little about. Here are 10 of the scariest — and sometimes gentlest — sea monsters in the oceans today.

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