January 2012
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WatchThe future is wild, Ep. 3
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Tell Tennessee Tea Party: You Can't Erase Slavery...
signatures: 32,244
deadline: ongoing
signature goal: 40,000
Target: Tennessee State Legislators
Sponsored by: Care2.com
Members of the Tennessee Tea Party are lobbying toerase any instances of slavery or genocide from being connected to the Founding Fathers in order to prevent their reputations from being tarnished. The audacity of this action alone is absurd. Part of the reason why...
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Life Beyond Earth? Underwater Caves in Bahamas...
ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2012) — Discoveries made in some underwater caves by Texas &M University at Galveston researchers in the Bahamas could provide clues about how ocean life formed on Earth millions of years ago, and perhaps give hints of what types of marine life could be found on distant planets and moons.
Typical Bahamian Blue Hole entrance pool. (Credit: Photo by Tamara Thomsen)
Tom...
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The Arctic is already suffering the effects of a...
Two decades after the United Nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change in order to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”, the Arctic shows the first signs of a dangerous climate change. A team of researchers led by CSIC assures so in an article published in the latest issue of the Nature Climate Change magazine.
These researchers...
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Pesticides blamed for bee decline
New formulas make colonies more prone to disease, research finds. Jonathan Owen reports
JONATHAN OWEN
SUNDAY 29 JANUARY 2012
Compelling new evidence from the US government’s top bee expert that modern pesticides may be a major cause of collapsing bee populations led to calls yesterday for the chemicals to be banned.
A study published in the current issue of the German...
Why
Never be afraid to ask why things are like they are. Every question can be the start of a change!
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William Butler Yeats ~ The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand....
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Help Protect Australia's Coral Sea →
The Australian government is now deciding the fate of the Coral Sea. The government’s draft plan for this iconic area would exclude the majority of species-rich coral reefs and important breeding sites for tuna and marlin, leaving them exposed to destructive or extractive activities. In fact, under the current proposal, many of the jewels in the crown of the Coral Sea remain vulnerable: Only...
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Biodiversity Loss Costs EU 450 Billion Euros a...
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 26, 2012 (ENS) - A silent crisis of biodiversity loss is costing the European Union 450 billion euros (US$590 billion) a year, adding to the stress of the ongoing financial crisis, the European Parliament heard on Tuesday.
The loss estimate was presented in a draft report to the Environment Committee by Dutch MEP Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Special Rapporteur on Biodiversity...
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New biodiversity map of the Andes shows species in...
The Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia is one of the most biologically rich and rapidly changing areas of the world. A new study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Ecology has used information collected over the last 100 years by explorers and from satellite images which reveals detailed patterns of species and ecosystems that occur only in this region. Worryingly, the...
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Here Comes the Sun: Tunisia to Energize Europe →
In the desert of Southern Tunisia, a group of renewable energy entrepreneurs, NUR Energie Ltd, and their Tunisian joint venture partner, Top Oilfield Services, are creating what may just be the most ambitious solar power renewable energy project to date. Along with the endorsement of the Desertec Foundation, NUR Energie has launched the TuNur project to export solar energy from North Africa to...
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ACT NOW: US Aid to Ethiopia Supports Forced...
signatures: 4,495
deadline: ongoing
signature goal: 10,000
Target: President Barack Obama and Dr. Rajiv Shah, USAID administrator
Sponsored by: The Oakland Institute & Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia (SMNE)
Ethiopia, which is deemed an “important regional security partner” by the US government and one of the largest recipients of US aid (over $1 billion a year...
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Anthropologists clarify link between Asians and...
A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists.
Lying at the intersection of what is today Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan, the region known as the Altai “is a key area because it’s a place that people have been coming and going...
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World's giant trees are dying off rapidly, studies...
Ecological ‘kings of the jungle’ being toppled by forest fragmentation, severe drought and new pests and diseases
John Vidal, environment editor
The Guardian, Thursday 26 January 2012
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The largest patch of old growth redwood forest remaining in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California. Photograph: Michael Nichols/NG/Getty Images
The biggest trees in the world,...
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Inventory Lists 19,232 Newly Discovered Species...
ScienceDaily (Jan. 18, 2012) — More than half of the 19,232 species newly known to science in 2009, the most recent calendar year of compilation, were insects — 9,738 or 50.6 percent — according to the 2011 State of Observed Species (SOS) report released Jan. 18 by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University.
Invertebrates account for nearly 75...
11 clean tech innovations that can change the...
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Imagination is key
The clean technology boom seems to spread exponentially every year. These new eco-friendly inventions compete with, and sometimes surpass, their conventional counterparts. It’s a reminder that the only thing tying us to old, less-than-clean industries is a lack of imagination. Here’s our list of some of clean tech’s most recent planet-saving innovations.
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“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of...”
– Charles de Montesquieu
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Protect Jaguars: Stop the Rosemont Copper Project...
signatures: 5,850
deadline: ongoing
signature goal: 10,000
Target: U.S. Forest Service
Sponsored by: Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
Late last year, a jaguar was sighted in southern Arizona — the first jaguar confirmed in the U.S. in 3 years! But now, as jaguars are making their way back to Arizona, new mining exploration could destroy the very habitat that these big cats...
