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Incredible Underwater Photography of Breaking Waves by Alex Tipple

Photo by Alex Tipple, via the Telegraph We thought wave photography had reached its pinnacle when we saw Clark Little’s colorful and dramatic images of cresting waves last year. But an equally creative and committed photographer has pushed the perspective and drug us underneath the crashing waves for a clear sight of what it looks like to be right there in the tumbling water. Alex Tipple photographs… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Islands of Garbage Filling China’s Three Gorges Dam

Image via China Daily Torrential rain in China has caused extreme flooding , affecting at least 134 million people in 28 provinces. But many more could be impacted due to another major issue caused by the rain. Massive islands of trash are threatening the Three Gorges Dam area, with some patches so thick people can actually walk on it. Nearly 3,000 tons of garbage is being collected daily from the dam, but it might prove to be too much for limited equipment and workers. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Climate Change Threatens to Devastate Burma

Monks in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. Photo via Disposable Words Sometimes we tend to fixate on the wider scope of threats posed by climate change, like the rising global temperatures, the melting ice in the Arctic, general sea level rise, and so on. But we also need to be looking at the regions and nations that global warming stands to hit the hardest — those places are often the least well equipped to deal with adaption as well. Take Burma, for instance. A nation heavily dependent on agriculture, and extremely vulnerable to flooding and cyclones, a new report reveals … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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46,000 Square Miles Of Forest Needed To Supply 120 Planned US Wood-Fired Power Plants

Southern pine wood chips. Image credit: USDA Southern Research Station . Research Update, Wood to Energy Biomass burning for electricity still looks to be a political and environmental black hole, presenting more dreadful questions than a tree hugger can shake a blog at. Why, for example, are 120 wood burning power plants being planned in multiple US states? Are banks and managing utilities planning for biomass (a euphemism for wood-fired) just to meet state renewable energy goals? Is it a coincidence that the projects are scheduled for upgrading mos… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pledge to Plug Plastic Pollution with the Plastiki

Image via My Plastiki The Plastiki is nearing the end of it’s voyage from San Francisco, California to Sydney, Australia after several months on the water. It’s been an incredible trip, and Graham Hill was even able to tag along for a good chunk of the trek. But the Plastiki has had an important goal from the very beginning, and now, the crew is asking you for support to meet that goal. As the Plastiki boat nears the end of its journey from San Francisco to Sydney, David de Rothschild and his crew are preparing for their next part of the mission,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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UN Recommends Chili Ping Pong Balls & Snake-Filled Bread to Stop Animals Marauding African Farms

photo: flickrfavorites The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has some novel and low-tech solutions for dealing with the age-old problem of wild animals raiding the crops of African farmers : Chili peppers to drive off elephants, guard donkeys for lions, cheetahs, and hyenas, and (perhaps my favorite for sheer inventiveness) placing live snakes in loaves of bread … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gorgeous Animal and Nature Photography From European Wildlife Book (Slideshow)

We have followed nature conservation organization Wild Wonders of Europe since they launched the biggest nature photography project ever. We watched the milestones , including catching the world’s rarest cat on film. So it is with a sad heart that we bring you the last in this series, a selection of the best animal-in-action and… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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TreeHugger Reports From the Heart of the Amazon

Perhaps the most striking thing about flying over the Amazon rainforest is how untouched it looks; there’s no checkered quilt of farmland or veins of highway. From horizon to horizon it’s nothing but an impossibly vast sea of green , inspiring the same sense of minuteness one might feel gazing at the Milky Way. At that height, the Amazon is as impressive and humbling as anything I’ve seen, seeming to be one giant breathing thing, untouched. Yet deep within this forest

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Can Rivers Be Used for Swimming Again?

Image: The sculpture “First Generation” by Chong Fah Cheong depicts the Singapore River as in olden days, via williamcho, Flickr As July practices heat waves in preparation for some real hot August, one cannot help but yearn for the olden days, when people would jump into the nearest river to cool down. But that was before industrial wastes made the water too dirty for swimming. Before we protested, passed laws, an… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Saving the Earth by Shrinking Humans

Image: The Incredible Shrinking Man If you have run out of controversial topics for dinner conversation, or websites to stumble upon, here’s one for you. The Incredible Shrinking Man project researches and reviews the “implications of genetically downsizing the human species to better fit the earth.” You might think this ranks somewhere between the lunatic fringe and a last-ditch gamble to avoid the extinction of humankind in a sci-fi novel. We did. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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