Image credit: Chelsea Bay Wills It wouldn’t be the first time that researchers have claimed to solve the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) mystery . In fact, everything from CO2 confusing bees’ social structure to cell phone towers messing with bees’ navigation systems has been cited as a possible cause of CCD and mysterious honeybee declin… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images from the Guardian : Basset Hound It’s the answer for those who can’t have a real dog: too allergic, work too hard, place too small, afraid of them, etc. etc. Knit your own. This new trend pulls together knitting–a relaxing DIY hobby and dogs in one happy combination. Be it a Portuguese water dog (the Obama favourite) or a classic English bulldog–there’s a pattern for them all. It’s enough to make a novice give it a try–maybe. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Lagoons Bursting Out: At The Intersection Of Climate Change And Inadquate Design
October 8, 2010 No Comment
Image credit: NOAA Atlas 14, Vol 2 (2004) (pdf file) Wastewater or sludge storage lagoons are designed, in part, based on statistical probability of annual precipitation and evaporation amounts. The data behind these estimates generally don’t take into account contemporary or projected weather extremes associated with man-induced climate change. There is powerful anecdotal evidence of the rapidly changing risk such storage lagoons can pose, as the poor villagers of Hungary could easily tell us about, if we were in direct communication. Accu… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The high speed rail lines at stake — red has partial funding, gray is proposed. Image via the Transport Politic As a dreamer of the American high speed rail dream, this news just makes me sad: the Republican candidates running for governor in Ohio, Florida, California, Wisconsin, and elsewhere, have all pledged to kill the rail projects in their states if they’… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bioasphalt developer Chris Williams and paving machine.Credit: Photo by Mike Krapfl/Iowa State University Asphalt is usually made from the bottom of the barrel , the dregs of the oil refining process. But then along came the tar sands and better technologies for refining heavy oil into gasoline, and the price has climbed. John has noted that it has got so expensive that rural roads are going back to the stone age . But Chris W… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: US Department of Defense Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the US military was “pushing aggressively to develop, test and deploy renewable energy to decrease its need to transport fossil fuels,” in order to avoid increasingly frequent attacks on supply convoys. Deploying renewable energy to power military bases has been a goal for years , and now the first battalions are hauling solar panels into Afghanistan. While this… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Greatest Global Warming Impact on Life in Tropics, Even Though Poles Have Higher Temperature Increase
October 7, 2010 No Comment
photo: Kevin Walsh / Some Rights Reserved If you even only casually follow the issue of climate change, you’re probably aware that the polar regions are warming significantly faster than the tropics . Now, a new report in Nature shows that even though this is the case, the greatest impact on … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Like many youngsters, and those young at heart, seven-year-old Max Geissbuhler and his dad dreamed of visiting space — and armed with just a weather balloon, video camera, and an iPhone, in a way they did just that. The father and son team from Brooklyn managed to send their homemade spacecraft up nearly 19 miles, high into the stratosphere, bringing back perhaps the most impressive DIY space scenes ever captured on film…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Existing International Law Supports States Suing One Another Over Climate Change Damages
October 7, 2010 No Comment
International Court of Justice, photo: Karen Rustad / Creative Commons . The issue of international legal liability for damages caused by climate change has come up a number of times recently, especially as scientists have become more adept at attributing natural disasters to global warming. Now, a new briefing by … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Oil Spill Commission Finds Obama Admin Downplayed Estimates, Acted Incompetently
October 7, 2010 No Comment
Photo: World News On May 22, 2010, just a few weeks after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig had exploded in the Gulf and unleashed the biggest environmental catastrophe in American history, President Obama established a National Oil Spill Commission to investigate the event. Yesterday, that commission issued a report on the effic… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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