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Polar Bears Will Be Extinct in Western Hudson Bay by 2040

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: James Seith Photography via flickr Back in 2004 there were only about 936 polar bears in the Western Hudson Bay part of Manitoba. Now researchers say that the increasing length of the ice-free season in the region means that a tipping point will soon be reached, which means the polar bears will decline over the next 30 years to a point where too few remain to sustain a viable breeding population. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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What We Don’t Know About the Ocean Can Kill Us

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Jo aboard the Plastiki; Photos via The Plastiki Guest post by Jo Royle, Skipper on the Plastiki ‘The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides’ – Jules Vern, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. I think most of us feel an emotional tie to the oceans. Most of us breathe a sigh of relief or relaxation as soon as we set eyes upon the deep blue wilderness, a feeling of coming home. My childhood mem… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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After Burning for 50 Years, Chinese Coal Fires May Finally Be Extinguished

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Fire in Rujigou coalfield in China. Photo: Anupma Prakash The Coal, The Coal is on Fire, Let the… China has the worst underground coal fires on Earth. These fires, which have sometimes been raging out-of-control for decades, destroy as much as 20-200 million tons of coal each year (nobody knows the exact number), which is more than Germany’s entire annual coal production. Inner Mongolia, which is a part of China and not to be confused with Mongolia, is China’s biggest coal-producing region (637 million tonnes of coal just last year), and it’s also #1 when it comes to massive coal fir… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Less Than 1% of Oil-Soaked Birds Survive

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Photo via Boston “Kill, don’t clean” oiled birds No, that’s not the opinion of the most heartless oil spill expert ever, or BP CEO Tony Hayward letting fly another tactless gaffe . It’s the actual recommendation of one oil spill expert and animal biologist who says that once birds are thoroughly oiled, the best course of action is to put them out of their misery. Even if all the crude is scrubbed from their feathers, she says, oiled bir… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today Is A Starting Point – Thoughts on World Oceans Day

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Photos via The Plastiki It’s very exciting to have a world ocean day, and when you think about our planet being covered in 72% of water, one would think that rather than calling it Planet Earth we would call it Planet Ocean. Today, the 8th of June is a very special day , we get to recognise and appreciate the scale of the ocean and how integral it is to our ability to live on this planet. Often we don’t connect with the ocean; it is often out of sight out of mind, an endless horizon that in real… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Orangutans in Zoos Enjoy Watching You, Too

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Ruth Flickr There’s nothing quite like a visit to the zoo for catching a glimpse of some of the world’s most fascinating animals –but, as it turns out, we’re not the only ones who enjoy a little interspecies gawking. Researchers from Australia’s

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Reforestation & Biochar: Two Geoengineering Methods That Won’t Cause More Harm Than Good

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: US Forest Service via flickr Geoengineering has been a slow burning controversy for some time now , with some truly wacky ideas proposed, as well as some which take a more sober look at the prospect of intentionally tinkering with the climate to stop the effects of human activity disturbing it in the first plac… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Crocodiles Surf Currents to Explore Their Realm

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Image credit: Obliot /Flickr The estuarine crocodile , more commonly known as the “saltwater crocodile,” has the largest geographic range of any crocodile species. Spanning more than 10,000 square kilometers of ocean, the crocodiles make their home from India to Australia, Indonesia to China, and have turned up as far north as the Sea of Japan and as far east as the Pacific Islands. To occupy such a vast marine realm, the crocodiles must be excellent swimmers—at least, that is what logic would sugge… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can Audubon’s "Frozen Zoo" Save Endangered Species?

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Audubon retrieves oil-coated turtle from NOAA. Photo: Audubon Nature Institute With the recent declaration of the rusty grebe extinction , due to a non-native carnivorous snakehead murrel being introduced to its habitat, Lake Alaotra in Madagascar, as well as drowning in nylon fishing nets, there’s no chance of resurrecting it. Unlike Cuba’s Zapata rail, which is critically endangered by the mongoose and catfish – not as long as the Audubon Species … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Cartoonist Explains the Pacific Garbage Patch With Talking Sealife (Slideshow)

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by poolie So just how does garbage get from your hand all the way out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean where it swirls in a soup of trashy debris — or if not there, then to one of the 4 other trash gyres in the oceans across the globe? Cartoonist Jim Toomey decided to send two of his characters off on an adventure to show you in the comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon . The journey starts in the fictional Kapupu Lagoon by the island of Kapupu in the South Pacific Ocean, west of the Elabaob Islands in the Palauan archipelago… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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