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Mountain Ranges Can Act As Conservation Safe Havens in a Warming World

photo: Jim Whitehead / Creative Commons While there have been some pretty dire reports about the extinction of plants and animals due to global warming , there has also been some interesting and encouraging research about how species may be able survive in certain places. This is one of those. Research coming out of the University of Basel , Switzerland shows t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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On the Street….Very Young Madrid, Madrid
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On the Street….Very Young Madrid, Madrid
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Today Would Have Been Carl Sagan’s 76th Birthday

Billions and Billions of Thanks for Your Life’s Work! Today would have been the 76th birthday of Carl Sagan, a great popularizer of science, as well as an astronomer, astrophysicist, author, and cosmologist. If you are… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Economics of Happiness as a Response to Environmental Crisis (video)

Image credit: The Economics of Happiness From the confessions of an economic hitman to David Korten urging that we rid ourselves of the Wall Street mafia , the green movement is no stranger to the idea that we may need to rethink conventional economic wisdom if we are going to get out of the crisis we face. But a new movie from the International Society for Ecology and Culture puts … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Dog Plays With His Dolphin Friend… Every Day (Video)

Skip to 30 Seconds In to See the Dog & Dolphin And now, something a bit lighter… I thought this video, which shows a white labrador jumping in a harbor and playing with a dolphin, was just too good not to show here. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sight of Meat Makes Men Less Aggressive, Calms Them Down

American Meat Institute 1946 Found in Mom’s Basement No wonder us weekday vegetarians are so jittery by Tuesday. Frank Kachanoff of McGill University thought that meat would make people more aggressive; you know what happens if you try to take it from a fee… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: A Rally to Defend Climate Science (Video)

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io9′s Environmental Writing Contest Offers $4,000 in Prizes!

Image: io9 Think You Can Write? Give It a Try! Sadly, we can’t run lab experiments with the planet (or at least, we shouldn’t ). There’s no control group to be sure of how certain thing would unfold in this or that situation. But we do have this very useful simulator between our ears that allows us to run thought experiments, and these experiments are most valuable when they are shared with others so that they too can think about the problem and then come up with a better way to approach it, or at least be more aware of it. All of this to say that

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Tea Party Fights for Companies’ Freedom to Pollute

Photo: nmfbihop , Flickr, CC I can understand the anti-regulatory sentiment that cable news shows tell us is still sweeping the nation; it makes for an attractive ideology. The notion that government interference is the root cause of all our current woes — that if the gov would just get out of the way, the American people would sort it all out — makes for a straightforward, patriotic-seeming solution to get behind. But is there no bounds to this sentiment? The Tea Party is turning out to protest regulations on pollution — and not even just the

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