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It’s a Coffee Cozy, It’s a Wrist Cuff, It’s Cozy/Cuff! (Photos)

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Credit: Cozy/Cuff While it’s obviously best to bring your own coffee mug, whether you’re toting your own home-brewed organic blend or popping in to a café for their local brew, there’s an option for when you’re SOL and want to keep your mits cool while grabbing coffee on the go: The Cozy/Cuff ; It’s a wrist cuff that doubles as a coffee cozy. Hand made state-side in Pennsylvania, these functional accessories are available in 100% wool felt or vegetable tanned leather and are colored… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Research Shows Ocean Chemistry Delayed Evolution by 1 Billion Years

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via mickeymox Researchers from Newcastle University have published a new study in Nature Geoscience illustrating that the chemical make-up of our early oceans may have delayed the evolution of life on our planet by as much as 1 billion years. Their research shows for the first time a chemical “layering” in the oceans that kept oxygen from reaching the deep ocean. That lack of oxygen may explain the long wait for development of life, and the sudden boom of animal life later on. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Feather of Extinct Bird Fetches Huge Price At Auction

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via wikipedia A very rare feather, the white-tipped tail feather of an extinct New Zealand bird called the huia, sold at auction last week for a whopping $5,880. The huia was last seen in 1907, which makes the tail feather understandably precious among collectors. Still, it was only estimated to be worth $550-700…that is until the bidding turned fierce. Ironically, it’s this passionate purchase of their tail feathers that led the huia to their extinction in the first place. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Posters Help Send Plastiki Ship’s Message On World’s Trash Gyres (Slideshow)

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Sarah Illenberger + Tia Grazette/ Plastiki “Ever since the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,” David de Rothschild wrote in TreeHugger , “it seems the barometers of success and modernity within society have been measured by our interaction, or rather lack of interaction, with the natural world.” The impact of this outlook, he continues, is palpable: Masses of

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Six Selfish Reasons You Don’t Want Dead Oceans

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by foodiesathome.com via flickr. TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world’s big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from the coast. TH asked Sharpless to please tell us how and why the health of the oceans affects each of us directly. Here are his replies: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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North Sea Suffers Crab Invasion

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Even these sand crabs are nervous at the thought of a Henslow swimming crab invasion. Image credit: Balaji.B /Flickr Named after John Stevens Henslow , the Cambridge professor who gave up his place on the Beagle to Charles Darwin, Polybius henslowii —or the Henslow swimming crab—finds it most comfortable in the warm waters off the coast of Portugal. Warming ocean currents, however, have allowed the active, swimming, predator to migrate north—and the impact of its presence is beginning to ripple t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Climate Awareness Bike Trip Climate Ride Includes Beer and Redwood Forest

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Brita Climate Ride Some people do their part fighting climate change at home in front of a computer (say…most of us here at TreeHugger). Others prefer a bit more sweat, blood, and tears. Well, hopefully just the former: Once again, Brita Climate Ride is throwing a bunch of environmentalists on bikes, this time in California, September 21-25. Those up for the challenge (a maximum of 150 riders) will pedal 320 miles over five days, soaking up spectacular vistas in the

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Amazon Deforestation Increases Malaria Rate by 50%

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Wikipedia A new report in the Center for Disease Control’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases highlights one more bad consequence of Amazon deforestation : In areas that have been cleared of trees incidence of malaria increase nearl… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Terrapin Eggs Offer Hope for 20 Remaining Members of the Species

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Hunted for their eggs and value on the traditional medicine market, Batagur baska , the mangrove terrapin has been driven as close to extinction as can be imagined. Only 20 known individuals remain—including those in captivity. For decades, zoologists and conservationists have struggled to rebuild the population but the turtles’ finicky breeding requirements have stopped the best efforts—Until now…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What, Exactly, is BP Hiding from Reporters?

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Images via the Huffington Post and the AP By now, enough incidents have been confirmed and/or caught on tape to say that BP is indeed preventing the press from accessing some impacted areas. Reporters from Newsweek, NPR, PBS , CBS , a number of local news organizations, and many more have all been turned away from public beach… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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