Image Courtesy of NY Daily News We’ve seen some pretty crazy stuff from stand-up paddlers recently, but challenge extreme athlete Tom Jones has been taking on for the last three months puts all other stunts to shame. Since May 13, Jones has been paddling 1,500 miles from
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What’s New Paddleboard? Extreme Athlete Tom Jones Travels 1,500 Miles to Clean Up the Oceans
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Though ship traffic and pollution mean that Moreton Bay won’t be idyllic home, it might be just good enough to harbor the world’s threatened corals. Image credit: Cindy Andrie /Flickr Thanks to climate change, pollution, and ocean acidification, the fate of many of the world’s coral reefs is a good as sealed. This leaves biologists and conservationists with the troubling tasks of preservation —where possible—and rehabilitation. One possible solution is transp… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Marine biologist Rory Moore and his team, including photographer Danny Kessler, came across pilot whales in the Strait of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean and managed to take some extraordinary photographs of the curious animals. Pilot whales rarely come into contact with humans thanks to strict diving regulations, so the images are an extra special treat. While they appear to be playful, graceful and comedic, the toothed pilot whales can also become aggressive and deadly, which makes the photos all the more intriguing…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Incredible Images of Pilot Whales in the Strait of Gibraltar
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Photo via SymonSez To all those who’ve voiced concern that the federal government is just being too hard on poor ol’ BP (here’s looking at you Rep. Barton), perhaps you should take note of the following: There’s a reason that BP needs to be held accountable for considerable damage its caused. It’s called gross negligence, and not just in beginning a deep-water drilling operation it had no contingency plan for — but also in cases like that its Texas oil refinery, where safety protocol was treated like a joke, and subsequently, a 2005 explosion left 15… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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BP Fined a Record $50 Million for Texas Refinery Explosion
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ECD, 5.6 kw UNI-SOLAR® product installation example in Heilbrunn Germany. Image credit:ECD UNI-SOLAR® products web page . Energy Conversion Devices of Auburn Hills MI recently received a $13 million stimulus tax credit to upgrade operations to produce a new, more efficient line of solar cells. The focus would be on mechanical and chemical engineering innovations, I assume. That government supported plan is still on course, apparently, although on a delayed schedule. That’s the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Michigan Solar Panel Factory’s Labor-Intensive Assembly Tasks Moved To Mexico
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Logged forest on left, unlogged forest on right… photo: Wakx via flickr Conventional political wisdom on rainforest degradation is that once you’ve logged an area once, or even twice, removing the largest most valuable trees, the forest becomes degraded to the point that biodiversity losses make it not worth protecting. In Borneo, often the land is turned over to plantation agriculture. A new study in
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Even Logged Rainforest Holds High Biodiversity Levels & Is Worth Protecting: Study
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Image credit: Dominic Alves /Creative Commons A seasoned dumpster diver who lived without cash for a year , Mark Boyle—aka the Moneyless Man—knows more than most about getting by without money. Having explored how to travel without cash , he’s now tackling an even trickier subject—is it possible t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Building a Home With Zero Money: Impossible?
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photos: Atlantis Resources Corp. There are some big tidal turbines out there, but none so massive as the one pictured above: The Atlantis Resources AK1000, just unveiled in Scotland and due to be installed at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney later this summer. Weighing in at 130 tons and standing nearly 74 feet tall, with rotors nearly 60 feet across, the 1MW turbine’s manufacturers say it is capable of generating enough electricity for 1000 homes…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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World’s Largest Tidal Turbine Unveiled in Scotland – Yes, It’s Humongous
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Today on Planet 100: The Heat is On (Video)
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photo: Stuart Seeger via flickr There are lots of things that go into making a city more environmentally friendly–from sufficient density, to adequate public transportation, to superior walkability, to good green spaces–but a key part of all that is frugal energy use and clean energy sources. Which is where NRDC ‘s 2010 Smarter Cities for Energy index comes into play, ranking the top US cities in this… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Austin, Berkeley and Beaverton Top NRDC’s 2010 Smarter Cities for Energy Index
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