Photo: kaibara87 A deadly drug-resistant bacteria is spreading to elderly patients in nursing and long-term care facilities in Los Angeles County, according to CBS Local Los Angeles . Today 350 cases have been counted, most found in the elderly population. It’s called the CRKP bacteria and currently, it has no cure. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Drug Resistant Superbugs Hit U.S. Hospitals and Nursing Homes

It’s a bird… It’s a plane… Wait, it’s both Mankind has long been fascinated with the idea of soaring through the sky like a bird, though oddly enough, many of the early flying contraptions were so bizarre as to seem plucked from thin air — even though nature had conquered that realm eons earlier. Eventually, of course, we figured out how to achieve sustained flight, though achieving sustainable flight has been an entirely new challenge. One engineering firm, however, seems to have made a real breakthrough in efficient aviation — by mimicking a design that had been over our noses the whole time…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Amazing Mechanical Seagull Rivals the Real Thing (Video)

Photo credit: Patrick H~ / Creative Commons This guest post was written by Beth Buczynski , a writer for Care2 Causes . Compare a television from 10 years ago to the ones on the market today, and you probably wouldn’t guess that they were the same type of technology…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Samsung Unveils See-Through Solar-Powered TV

photo: Graeme / Creative Commons Given that there’s an ongoing nuclear power plant crisis in Japan and another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, you may have missed this one: An oil spill caused by a ship run around on Nightingale Island in the South Atlantic (part of Tristan da Cunha group of islands) which has resulted in rockhopper penguins , listed as endangered by IUCN, and seals being covered in oil, in addition to the undoubted effects on the less charismatic parts of the food chain. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Endangered Rockhopper Penguins Covered In Oil By Remote South Atlantic Oil Spill (Video)

Images via PixelThis Etsy Shop PixelThis is an artist who builds beautiful and funky clocks made from all sorts of recycled things — record players, computer parts, even bike wheels. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Awesome Clocks Made From Turntables, Apple Computers, Bikes and More

Skip to 30 Seconds In to See the Dog & Dolphin And now, something a bit lighter… I thought this video, which shows a white labrador jumping in a harbor and playing with a dolphin, was just too good not to show here. It doesn’t reveal anything very deep about environmental problems or solutions, but it’s a good reminder of the simple pleasures of life that we share with many other sentient species. Who knows how the dog and the dolphin understand their relationship and what it means to them? All I know is that it looks like they’re having fun! This was shot in Tory Island, off the coast of Ireland. Via Youtube . See also: There are Things that Birds Just Won’t Fly Over… … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Dog Plays With His Dolphin Friend… Every Day (Video)

A boatload of Asian carp. Via asiancarp.org If you can’t beat ‘em, ship ‘em. The state of Illinois is spending $2 million to ship invasive Asian carp back to China, where they’re considered a delicacy. In Illinois, and the Great Lakes region, they’re considered a political football. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Illinois Spending $2M to Ship Asian Carp Back to China

Photo: nateOne (Flickr) As if the annoying, misleading ads from the makers of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) weren’t enough food for thought already, CBS News reports that researchers from UCLA have found that fructose — which is a component of HFCS (a suspected culprit in America’s obesit… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fructose Can Accelerate Growth of Cancer Cells: Study

Photo via Ruth Flickr There’s nothing quite like a visit to the zoo for catching a glimpse of some of the world’s most fascinating animals –but, as it turns out, we’re not the only ones who enjoy a little interspecies gawking. Researchers from Australia’s

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Orangutans in Zoos Enjoy Watching You, Too

Image via: Wonderlane /Flickr Weekday vegetarians ready to ramp up their meatless-ness may find inspiration in this recently released study in Environmental Health News . For five days, 25 study participants dwelled in a Buddhist temple and adopted a monk’s lifestyle–including their oftentimes veggie… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Buddhist Monk’s Vegetarian Diet to Minimize Chemical Exposure