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Paul Nichols Uses Technology and Daring to Catch Animals in His Camera Trap

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Walmart Adds 218,000 Acres to Wildlife Habitat Protection Program

Image: mjb84 via flickr One more item to add to the list of reasons it’s getting harder to hate Walmart : its Acres for America program is working to preserve hundreds of thousands of acres of wildlife habitat…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Caused By Short-Term Extreme Weather Not Gradual Temperature Rise

The blue areas in this image represent changes in elevation of the ice sheet from 2003-2006; the grey areas represent no change in elevation. Image: NASA Goddard Photo and Video / Creative Commons . We’ve all heard that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting and that should it disappear completely some really dr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Climate Scientist Takes on Big Oil Stooge in Congress (Video)

It’s a predictable cycle that goes something like this: Scientists’ research unearths new findings about ecology or human health that prove inconvenient to corporate interests. Industry ignores it. The body of research grows. Corporations bankroll (directly or indirectly) ‘experts’ to attempt to discredit research in Congressional hearings and other public venues. Conf… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bird Once Thought Extinct Now Found Nesting in U.S.

Photo: USFWS Endangered Species / CC In the middle of the last century, things weren’t looking good for the majestic Short-tailed Albatross. From a hardy population estimated to be in the millions just decades earlier, the bird’s numbers underwent a dramatic decline from over-hunting — nearly disappearing from th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Increased Plant Growth From Higher CO2 Levels Can Slow But Not Stop Global Warming

photo: www.bluewaikiki.com / Creative Commons In case you were holding out hope that all that extra CO2 we’re pumping into the atmosphere would stimulate enough extra plant growth to balance out any future increases in global temperature , give it up: New computer modeling from NASA s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Climate Scientists vs. Congress (Video)

At the moment, I can’t think of a profession I’m less envious of than that of the American climate scientist. Consider: The climate science community’s years of meticulous study, research, data collection and modeling — not to mention its cautious, much-deliberated-over policy guidelines — are met with what? Certainly not our thanks. Nope, instead, climate scientists… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Jonathan Franzen Knows His Birds

Photo credit: / Creative Commons Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel Freedom has been lauded for it’s critique of middle-class American family life. There is another theme, however, that has slowly begun to attract attention: The place sustainability issues in pop culture…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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FoodTubes: Totally Tubular Idea For Delivering Food Pneumatically

FHA Report via Dvice For decades, the pneumatic tube was the fastest way to move the printed word; huge networks existed in Paris, Prague and Pneu York . But as the need for moving paper was replaced by fax and then email, the networks were mostly closed down. But Matthew Lasar of Ars Technica writes that in the UK, on… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Must We Embrace the ‘Sacred’ to Survive Peak Oil?

Image credit: Rhys Alton , used under Creative Commons license. There’s no doubt that religion and spirituality can be a divisive subject. I’ve asked before whether green religion will sink us or save us , and suggested that preaching at people is not the best way to win green converts . A similar debate seems to be hotting up within the T… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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