Photo via TED We’ve featured the work of cartoonist Jim Toomey before. He has a knack for educating readers on the issues surrounding marine litter and ocean pollution without the lecture-y tinge that too often turns people away. But how does he do it, and why? Toomey was on the Mission … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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TED TALK – How Cartoonist Jim Toomey Infuses Sketches with Activism
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Photo via Telegraph , Credit: Anne Young/Solent News In the Ubud region of Bali, Indonesia comes a companionship straight out of children’s books. Photographer Anne Young was vacationing at the Monkey Forest Park when she spotted a young male long-tailed macaque monkey that had adopted a ginger kitten, protectively caring for and grooming it while keeping other monkeys away. The kitten couldn’t look happier, and neither could the monkey. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Monkey Adopts Kitten in Indonesian Forest
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Image via Fast Company A British beekeeper has been working on creating a new strain of honeybee resistant to the varroa mite, a prime suspect in colony collapse disorder (CCD), and it looks like he’s hit a high note after 18 years of careful observation and selective breeding. Ron Hoskins found that bees in one of his hives figured out what a great idea mutual grooming can be — they learned to clean the mites off one another. Hoping that this learned behavior is hereditary, he spread the genes of bees from this colony t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Honeybee Breed Key to Combating Colony Collapse Disorder
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Photo via brendan.lally…away As habitat loss causes bird species to fly farther from the nest to forage, in turn forcing longer stretches of time between a mother’s time incubating her eggs, researchers are finding the health of the species on the whole can decline. A study done on wood ducks shows that when mothers are forced to stay away from their nests longer to feed, even the slightest drop in temperature can cause problems in the development and vitality of the hatchlings. The findings could reveal dire news for birds who have to choose betwee… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ducklings in Danger! Habitat Destruction Weakening Baby Birds (Video)
Image credit: Kanu Hawaii /Creative Commons Aquaponics usually stirs up a good deal of interest and debate here. From the awesome urban aquaponics of Growing Power to industrial-scale aquaponics operations , plenty of people believe in the idea of recycling fish poop into plant food in an efficient semi-closed-loop system. And yet questions remain—I’ve asked before whether
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Can Aquaponics Pay for Itself?
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Image via Google Lat-Long Blog Google Earth’s ocean layers are incredible, and the company has made the feature of their much loved software mobile — Google Earth 1.1 for (of course) Android has just added their oceans layer. You can zoom around the sea floor, exploring the entire Monterey Bay Canyon, for example, or search through photos and videos from contributors. It’s certainly an entertaining and educational way to spend a morning train commute. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Google Earth Adds Ocean Exploration to Android App
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Photo: Flickr , CC That’s a Lot of Chopsticks Apparently China’s Ministry of Commerce has had it with disposable chopsticks. It sent out a warning to chopstick makers in June to warn them that: “Production, circulation and recycling of disposable chopsticks should be more strictly supervised.” The reason? With about 45 billion disposable chopstick pairs made every year in the country, or about 130 million a day, a lot of wood is being wasted, and that in a country that is trying to increase its forest cover… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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China’s 45 Billion Disposable Chopsticks Require 100 Acres of Forests Every 24 Hours
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Photo by Paolo Torchio Veteran wildlife photographer , Paolo Torchio, made an interesting discovery while visiting Kenya’s Msai Mara National Reserve: a mysterious “bearded” antelope. Torchio has lived and worked in Kenya for two decades and is intimately familiar the beasts that occupy the 600-square-mile reserve. He initially thought the animal was a dog and “was wondering, what is this dog doing?” he said. “And when it came out from the grass, that was a surprise.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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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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NYC’s Empire State Building is Going Dark this Fall to Save Migratory Birds
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Image credit: SyncStudios I’ve never been much of a gamer, but I did always enjoy the constructive challenges posed by games like SimCity and its later spin offs. That’s why I kind of liked the idea of a Facebook game that lets you nurture virtual chickens, and rescue real ones too . It seems a UK company has been having similar ideas—developing an iPhone app that allows you to plant a virtual tree and help it grow, meanwhile securing real tree in the Peruvian rainforest. So c… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can Your iPhone Save a Rainforest? Nurturing Virtual Trees to Save Real Ones
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