The World's Largest, Smelliest And Most Bizarre Flowers
gardeninggarden.com — While flowers typically attract humans and insects alike with their enchanting beauty and luscious fragrance, some rather perverse stinking flowers entice flesh and fecal-loving insects to their foul-smelling blooms in the guise of meat by their colors and fetid scents, which include some of the largest and most bizarre flowers in the world. (Submitted by drGt1987) More…
Snowcap Vanishing From Mount Kilimanjaro
msnbc.msn.com — The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak — made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway — is rapidly melting, researchers report. Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007, researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University report. (Submitted by alapoet) More…
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Adam Lambert sings the 2012 theme song, “Time for Miracles” view!
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Nazca Civilization Collapsed After Cutting Key Trees
dsc.discovery.com — The ancient Nazca people, who once flourished in the valleys of south coastal Peru, literally fell with the trees they chopped down, new research has concluded. The Nazca caused their own collapse when they cleared their forests in order to make way for agriculture, thus exposing the landscape to wind and flood erosion. (Submitted by mmaine) More…
NASA Explores Lightning's Impact on Pollution, Climate
nasa.gov — Every year, scientists learn something new about the inner workings of lightning. With satellites, they have discovered that more than 1.2 billion lightning flashes occur around the world every year. And then there is this: each of those billion lightning flashes produces a puff of nitrogen oxide gas (NOx) (Submitted by wjappe) More…
Dying Coral Reefs to be Frozen, Preserved for the Future
treehugger.com — Researchers just concluded that the prospects for the world's coral reefs' survival are so slim that a plan must be launched to freeze samples in liquid nitrogen and preserve them for future generations. (Submitted by avizaaj) More…
Horrendous legacy of Bhopal, 25 years later
theage.com.au — The Hiroshima of the chemical industry: At least 25,000 people exposed to the gas have since died, and today in Bhopal tens of thousands more Indians suffer from a variety of debilitating gas-related illnesses such as respiratory and psychiatric problems, joint pains, menstrual irregularities, tuberculosis and cancers. Thanks, Union Carbide. (Submitted by naturalpapa) More…
Leaking Australia Oil Well, in Timor Sea, catches fire
news.bbc.co.uk — An oil well at the centre of a massive spill in the Timor Sea off the north west coast of Australia is on fire. Engineers have been struggling for more than 10 weeks to stop the leak which is spewing gas and oil at an estimated 400 barrels a day. (Submitted by mmaine) More…
Pay us to not pump oil so Amazon will survive, says Ecuador
independent.co.uk — Ecuador is now banking on a new idea to help it shed its poisonous dependency on oil. The Yasuni-ITT Initiative aims to keep the region's remaining oil reserves untapped and underground, in return for financial compensation from the international community. The crux of it is simple: to keep the oil beneath the Yasuni National Park where it is. (Submitted by naturalpapa) More…
Zinc-Air Battery Could Hold 300% More Power Than Lithium-Ion
treehugger.com — ReVolt Technology, a company based in Staefa, Switzerland, claims that its Zinc-air battery can "store three times the energy of lithium ion batteries, by volume, while costing only half as much," and unlike other existing air batteries, this one would be rechargeable. (Submitted by amprather) More…
And the Winner of the 2009 "Rubber Dodo Award" is...
ecoworldly.com — ...Land Speculator Michael Winer. The Rubber Dodo is awarded to the person who has contributed the most to driving endangered species extinct. Winer is apparently behind Tejon Ranch Company’s plan to destroy the largest parcel of private land in California, home to the critically endangered California condor. Last year's award went to Sarah Palin. (Submitted by biofriendlyblog) More…
Toxic Waste Shipwreck in Madagascar Kills Whales
treehugger.com — A ship carrying toxic waste sunk off the coast of Madagascar, & thousands of tons of refuse were emptied into the rich marine ecosystem. The wreck has had devastating effects on sea life and the health of people who live inland - causing whales to mysteriously beach in greater numbers, and afflicting locals with grave respiratory and skin diseases. (Submitted by naturalpapa) More…
Retired Indian Engineer Builds Glaciers To slow glacial melt
ecofriend.org — Chewang Norphel, 76, has already proved his technology by building 12 new glaciers and is trying to build five more before he dies. Chewang is also training new people to continue his work and save the world’s glaciers from being transformed into rivers. The engineer, popularly known as the “Iceman of Ladakh” diverts melt-water through a ..... (Submitted by TheDudeDean) More…
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