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First-Ever Carbon Map Shows Global Warming in Peru’s Amazon

TreeHugger — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:43:23 +0000

This image shows an area of road building and development adjacent to primary forest in red tones, and secondary forest regrowth in green tones. Credit: Carnegie Institution. You can see the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that shows carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices in Peru's Amazon. The maps were created with satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys. And the images may help pave the way for a new United Nations monitoring system to curb deforestation and forest degradation....Read the full story on TreeHugger

The Beat of New York

Fubiz — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:55:39 +0000

Un remix-vidéo énergique de la ville de New-York à travers sa musique, ses bruits et ses différents sons. Une très belle initiative du directeur de photographie allemand Thomas Nöesner, le tout produit par Stereoscreen. A découvrir en vidéo, dans la suite de l’article.

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Wyoming Town Close to Drilling Told To Avoid Drinking Water

TreeHugger — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:50:36 +0000

image via Gasland I lived in Wyoming for 8 years and it breaks my heart that the state's landscape is being so significantly altered by the oil, coal and gas industry. I never visited the town of Pavillion when I was in Wyoming, and now I don't have much of a desire to go there after federal officials told locals to avoid drinking their tap water and to make sure they have ventilation when showering. Pavillion is located close to several natural gas drilling sites. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

On This Labor Day, Demand Safe Green Jobs, And Honor Those Who Work With Their Hands

TreeHugger — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:46:00 +0000

There is a price to pay for cheap energy and gas for our cars that goes beyond dollars, as we saw this year with the 29 dead miners in West Virginia and the 11 on the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf. American labor used to make things and fix things, and used to be proud to do it, for a decent wage. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

‘Local’ Cream Travels 340 Miles to End on its Own Doorstep

TreeHugger — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:23:02 +0000

Image credit: Roddas From the very beginning, TreeHugger has been a huge advocate for local food. Ever since Time Magazine declared that local food was going mainstream back in 2007, there's been a steady stream of retailers and restaurateurs getting in on the locavore bandwagon. Heck, we even have <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/michele-ob...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Cocoon - Comets

Fubiz — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:20:18 +0000

Voici en exclusivité sur Fubiz, le nouveau clip du groupe Cocoon sur leur titre “Comets”. Une réalisation de Julien Raymond et une direction Artistique de Mark Maggiori, à l’occasion de leur nouvel album “Where The Oceans End” prévu pour le 25 octobre. A découvrir dans la suite.

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Snakebot - a Robot that Maneuvers Like a Snake

EcoGeek — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:10:11 +0000

We are always intrigued by biomimetic technologies that find answers based in imitating naturally developed systems. Mechanical locomotion that imitates animal locomotion is particularly interesting. So we liked finding this video of a robotic snake being which is developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon University.

The motion of the snake-bot would allow it to maneuver through tighter spaces than either people or other mechanisms can easily move through. According to the researchers, "Snake robots can use their many internal degrees of freedom to thread through tightly packed volumes accessing locations that people and machinery otherwise cannot use." The flexibility and maneuverability of the snakebot allow it to move through a wide range of terrain types, and could be useful for a range of tasks from building maintenance to field research.

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Human Activity May Have Boosted Palau Shellfish Size

TreeHugger — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:00:00 +0000

photo: Wikimedia Commons A new study in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows there are exceptions to the conventional eco-wisdom that increased human activity always spells harm for animals: Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered that the size of one mollusk, that's been a food source for Pacific Islanders for thousands of years, has increased in size in conjunction with human population growth. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Can Big Society Save the Planet, and Squash Big Government Too?

TreeHugger — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:24:27 +0000

Image credit: Conservative Home I've always found the assertion that all environmentalists are socialist a little hard to swallow. I know plenty of conservatives who love the natural world and abhor waste. And I know plenty of radical greens whose anti-authoritarian, DIY streak puts them in direct conflict with any "big government" solutions from the traditional left. This very debate is flourishing right now over in the UK, with the <a href="http://www.treehugger...Read the full story on TreeHugger

ERAU researcher to develop swarm of underwater turbines to tap shifting current

AditiJ — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:22:11 +0000

Eco Factor: Autonomous turbines to move freely in water to capture underwater currents.

We have already seen many kinds of turbines harness power from the winds. How about underwater turbines moving freely in water to capture the shifting current? Sounds really interesting! Darris White, associate mechanical engineering professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida is working on building a swarm of underwater turbines that could trap energy. He is developing a control algorithm that will allow autonomous turbines to float together.

Behaving like schools of fish, these autonomous turbines would be tethered to each other, allowing them to move in synchronization to tap underwater currents. These turbines that wouldn’t require to be affixed to one spot on the seafloor will communicate with each other through their sensors. Researches claim that there is 21,000 times more energy in that underwater stream than Niagara Falls, holding the potential to power more a million households, so harnessing the power of underwater currents could prove to be more fruitful.

Via: Discovery News