Image credit: Daly3d , used under Creative Commons license. Richard Branson has long argued that business must step up and tackle both climate change and peak oil as a matter of urgency. From proposing waste-based biofuels in aviation, and even towing planes to the runway , through to setting up a carbon war room a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ships Get Energy Ratings Thanks to Richard Branson
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Image credit: Permaculture Science Whether learning that I am only 10% human, 90% bacteria , or musing on the concept of composting as animal husbandry , my life has taken a decidedly microbial turn of late. And not without good reason. As the video below argues in no uncertain terms, we owe our very existence to the tiniest of beings around. You’ll be astounded at quite how many there are under your feet—… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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40 Tons of Life in One Acre of Soil: Geoff Lawton on the Magic of Soil (Video)
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC Huge Issue With Small Resources The President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology has released a report that is critical of the U.S. for not investing enough into energy R&D, recommending that spending more than triple from $5 billion to $16 billion (not that much when you compare it to the cost of other big expenditures). The U.S. lags many other country in energy R&D investments (see the chart below), and considering how much it spends on fossil fuels, any investments that reduce that consumption w… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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U.S. Needs to Boost Spending for Energy R&D, Panel Tells Obama
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Image credit: TED /Bonnie Bassler Earlier this week, I wrote a post wondering whether we should think of composting as animal husbandry —given the vast array of living organisms that exist in a compost heap. Now I am wondering whether the same term could apply to simply living. Because I’ve just come across a video that highlights the astounding role that bacteria play in keeping us alive. But be warned—viewing it made me fe… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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You Are 10% Human. 90% Bacteria. (Video)
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Photo: mauricholas/ Maureen Leong-Kee , Flickr, CC Pollution has long been known to bear various impacts on animals’ reproductive behavior . But rarely is the effect so pronounced as what scientists have observed happening to bird populations that ingest the poisonous metal compound methylmercury. Researchers have found that when even low levels of the compound enter their diets, male birds choose to attempt to mate with other males, and snub females. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pollution Making ‘Male Birds Mate With Each Other’: Scientists
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photo: Nicholas / Creative Commons While it may sound like a good thing on the face of it, cloud cover being reduced by 10% over the next 90 years due to climate change, that additional amount of blue sky could mean that we’re in for more temperature increases–that’s according to research done at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, published in the Journal of Climate …. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Cloud Cover Could Be Reduced by 10% by 2100 Due to Climate Change, Increasing Temperatures
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White Ibises Become Homosexual Because Of Mercury – Scientists in Florida and Sri Lanka studied the effect of mercury in the birds’ diet. Their goal is to find out why it reduced the ibises’ breeding.Mercury affects the behavior of white ibises by turning them into homosexual. It is because of the higher doses resulting in White Ibises Become Homosexual Because Of Mercury is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading
Do you have a lot of one-night stands? Affairs? Well, I bet your mom does too. No, really! I bet she does, because scientists say they’ve found a gene that’s linked to promiscuity and uncommitted sex. More
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Image credit Lloyd Alter TreeHugger first covered architect Michelle Kaufmann ‘s Smart Home at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago in 2008 with a guest post by Brian Jones. It is a different creature today; the Museum redoes the interior every year. Being in Chicago for green building tradeshow Greenb… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Exclusive Look Inside Michelle Kaufmann’s 2010 Smart Home in Chicago (Slideshow)
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photo: Luigi Guarino / Creative Commons The Vatican’s science advisors have come out in support of genetically modified crops , saying that they scientists have both the right and moral duty to produce them to help the world’s poor, Ne… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Papal Science Advisors Say World’s Poor Need GM Crops & Scientists Have Moral Duty to Develop Them
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