Cyclists assemble in Yerevan, Armenia, for a bike tour to Teghut Forest. Photo by Ruzanna Hovasapyan via ride-earth on Flickr. Armenian environmental activists fighting plans to build a copper mine in an endangered forest got a boost recently when former System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian , surely the world’s most famous Armenian-American rock star, sent a me…
This photo, via The Telegraph , shows just how difficult it is to move one of the large, primitive cycads. Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style, from a botanical garden in South Africa. The species, cycads, is so old, in fact, that their broad ..
Image via HaPPi Like A HiPPo Happy – and very unusual – news! Delivered to a cheering crowd, two male calves were born in the north-eastern province of Surin to a 35-year-old mother named Phang Thong Khun. They’re the very first known male twins, and follow the birth of a set of female twins born in Thailand 15 years ago. But while the world celebrates their birth and they add to the very low count of elephants in Thailand, the boys aren’t out of the woods yet.
Workers at a golf club in China. Photo by Dan Washburn via Foreign Policy
Don’t get me wrong, I’m extremely excited about Bloom Energy. I honestly think that their technology is a good thing for the world and that it might very well revolutionize the power infrastructure in America and throughout the world
Image credit: Shek Graham /Flickr Around the world, marine environments are threatened by overfishing , warming waters, ocean acidification, and coastal development . The diminished biomass and diversity that results leaves ecosystems vulnerable to disease and
Warmer ocean temperatures pose a serious threat to corals around the world. Warmer waters typically kill the brown or green algae that a reef depends on for food, leading to bleaching and death of the reefs, but Penn State scientists have found some algae are not affected by rising temperatures, buying their coral partners some time. Heat-resistant algae have been found in the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean as well as in spots in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. Scientists aren’t sure if the resilient algae can save corals – the algae may not be able to be imported to coral reefs where it doesn’t naturally occur and there are other things threatening coral, including rising ocean acidification , pollution and bottom-trawling fishing. Considering all of that, the algae may be just a temporary life-preserver. But some scientists think warmer waters may encourage the growth of these algae, benefitting the reefs they occupy over the long-term. Continued research will be needed, but this discovery does offer a glimmer of hope for the world’s coral
Photo via National Geographic Great Whites Could Go Extinct Before Tigers Two of the world’s most famous carnivores are now under the microscope for being perilously close to extinction. One of them, the tiger, has gotten plenty of PR recently , along with the frightening revelation that the entire species could be on the brink of be…
The 2010 Vancouver Olympics has yet another feather to add to their cap – they now have the greenest neighborhood in the world . Yesterday, Millennium Waters, the Olympic Athlete’s Village located on Southeast False Creek across from the BC Place Stadium, received LEED Platinum Certification for the entire neighborhood as well as LEED Gold status for all of the buildings included.
Apparently, manufacturing of one of the most durable wristwatches in the world was just not enough for electronics maker Casio . To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day , the company decided to flex their clock-making prowess by taking their popular G-Shock series to the next level – making them run on solar power
