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Study Finds Large Animals in India are Facing Extinction Even in Protected Areas
Study Finds Large Animals in India are Facing Extinction Even in Protected Areas
The Satkosia Gorge Sanctuary in India. Image credit: Raveesh Vyas India has had a system of wildlife sanctuaries since 1928. Now, there are more than 500 in the country ranging from dedicated tiger and bird reserves to more general areas intend to protect habitats rich in biological diversity. Unfortunately,...
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The Electric Chainsaw Massacre: Pleatherface on the Rampage
The Electric Chainsaw Massacre: Pleatherface on the Rampage
Image credit: Funny or Die TreeHugger has covered hand-powered chainsaws before , and even chainsaws lubricated with mushroom spores , but we’ve never done much on electric chainsaws. I’m thinking we should get something up soon though, before Pleatherface dons his cruelty-free mask and...
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Posted by in Environment on 03 10th, 2010 | No Comments
A Roadmap For Taking On Coal Plant by Plant
A Roadmap For Taking On Coal Plant by Plant
photo via flickr Coal activist Ted Nace today published a must-read post in Grist on the importance of taking on coal via a variety of strategies, effectively coming at the country’s Number 1 contributor to climate change from every angle possible. Nace, the man behind the indispensable Coalswarm...
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Test Driving Volkswagen’s First Hybrid Vehicle: The 2011 Touareg
Test Driving Volkswagen’s First Hybrid Vehicle: The 2011 Touareg
Photo via MotorTrend VW’s 2011 Touareg Hybrid The 2010 Geneva Motor Show was filled with so many splashy auto announcements — Porsche’s first ever plug-in hybrid , a new Aud… Read the full story on TreeHugger Here is the original post: Test Driving Volkswagen’s First...
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Obama Gathers Bipartisan Group for New Energy Reform Thrust
Obama Gathers Bipartisan Group for New Energy Reform Thrust
Photo via Whatson The so-called “conventional wisdom” has been pretty unremitting in deeming any sort of comprehensive energy reform legislation dead in the water this year. But that’s still not looking to be the case –some rather unlikely champions, including GOP Sen. Lindsey...
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Gary Lauder on the Social and Environmental Impact of Stop Signs and Roundabouts (Video)
Read the full story on TreeHugger View post:  Gary Lauder on the Social and Environmental Impact of Stop Signs and Roundabouts (Video)
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MIT Scientists Discover a Way to Generate Electricity with Thermopower Waves in Carbon Nanotubes
MIT Scientists Discover a Way to Generate Electricity with Thermopower Waves in Carbon Nanotubes
Image: MIT Could Store Power at 100x More Energy/Weight Than Lithium-Ion A team of scientists at MIT has discovered a new way to generate power with carbon nanotubes. In a paper titled ” Chemically driven carbon-nanotube-guided thermopower waves ” published in Nature Materials , they describe...
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Finding the Key to Subsidizing Solar Power
Finding the Key to Subsidizing Solar Power
Photo via International Rivers The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined–in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today . Basically, in a rush to jumpstart a pioneering solar...
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A Good Climate Bill Will Be Strong, Not Easy
A Good Climate Bill Will Be Strong, Not Easy
Image credit: Good Passing a strong climate bill, Good tells us in a recent editorial, is a necessity. Such a bill, they write, must be defined by what is good for the country, not what is easy for the Senate to agree upon…. Read the full story on TreeHugger View post:  A Good Climate Bill...
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Life on the Endangered Species Waiting List
Life on the Endangered Species Waiting List
The greater sage-grouse was deemed to be “warranted but precluded” by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Though it “warrants” protection under the Endangered Species Act, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said, the greater sage-grouse will...
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