Image credit:via University of Missouri -Kansas City School of Law . Excerpted from the work by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. “Galileo before the Holy Office”, 1847. Musee Luxembourg. Due mainly to habitat loss, well-known and deeply-cherished animals all over the world are disappearing at astonishing rates. Nothing proposed by the UN has appreciably curbed this modern, and uniquely extreme ‘loss of biodiversity.’ (In other words: animals that Disney made billions animating are...
Artist’s rendering of the ‘Lusail Iconic Stadium’ for Qatar. Image: Foster + Partners . Qatar is touting its eco-friendly design for a new football stadium as a key component of the country’s 2022 World Cup bid. In designs released by architects Foster + Partners , the building certainly looks cool and has a lot of the right qualification… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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In an attempt to cut down on back on consumer waste , one toilet paper manufacturer has unveiled perhaps the biggest change the product has undergone in over a century — replacing that old cardboard tube with, well, nothing. If the advancement in TP technology seems unremarkable, consider just how much waste it will keep from the landfill. Each year, a million miles worth of cardboard tubing … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Toilets are easily the most long-suffering fixtures of modern life, tucked away behind closed doors to endure decades of unspeakable uses — so don’t they deserve something better than a landfill?
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City Makes Sidewalk From Hundreds of Old...
No one can skate outside in the US Northeast this winter. Even Canada is likely to loose the cultural memory of outdoor skating.
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Memories Lost To Climate Change: End Of Outdoor Ice Skating & Ice Fishing May Be...
This nice 10-minute video interview will teach you everything you need to know about the Mann hockey stick controversy.
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The percentage of electricity generated in coal-fired power plants fell to its lowest level since 1978 at the end of last year.
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In 2011, Coal Produced Less than 40% of US Electricity for First Time in 30...
Korean activists are spearheading efforts to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there and the air quality their families are exposed to back home.
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Most people don’t get into computer repair by driving a school bus, but Jodi Spangler is definitely not most people.
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Don’t You Know that Grandma’s the Fix-It...
A super minimalist mobile ice fishing hut consists of a wooden frame, some chicken wire and walls of ice, made on the spot.
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Tiny Folding Winter Hut Is Made with Walls of...
In his latest undertaking as a pioneering oceanic explorer with the National Geographic, the much lauded filmaker is bound to reach an epic low.
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James Cameron to Travel Solo to the Ocean’s Deepest...