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Just a friendly reminder about the election tomorrow: Whatever you do, don’t vote conservative!. That is all!
The researchers were startled to find bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They are being forced into the long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed are melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart.
Although polar bears are strong swimmers, they are adapted for swimming close to the shore. Their sea journeys leave them them vulnerable to exhaustion, hypothermia or being swamped by waves.
According to the new research, four bear carcases were found floating in one month in a single patch of sea off the north coast of Alaska, where average summer temperatures have increased by 2-3C degrees since 1950s.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article767459.ece
Serene Bear on an ice float. 1
Another bear resting by the ocean.2
An increasingly frequent open ocean crossing. 3
Iconic image of a resting Polar Bear. 4
Greenpeace has a way with words.
We must also keep our humour in difficult times :) 5
Haunting picture of a drowned Polar Bear before the era of arctic thawing. 6
Iconic image of a resting Polar Bear. 7
A very tired Polar Bear makes it to an ice flow. 8
Nearly a quarter of the world’s land mammal species are at risk of extinction, and many others may vanish before they are even known to science, according to a major annual survey of global wildlife
The fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus), found in south-east Asia, moved from vulnerable to endangered due to habitat loss in wetlands. Photograph: Mathieu Ourioux/IUCN
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VBS.tv does another spectacular documentary with this piece on Linfen. This is part 1. To see the rest, check out their site or follow this link:
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/community-news/china-pollution-88081801?src=rss
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ANWR comprises 19,800,000 acres (80,000 km2) of the north Alaskan coast. The land is situated between the Beaufort Sea to the north, Brooks Range to the south, and Prudhoe Bay to the west. It is the largest protected wilderness in the United States and was created by Congress under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980. Section 1002 of that act deferred a decision regarding future management of the 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km2) coastal plain, known as the “1002 area.” The controversy surrounds drilling for oil in this area of ANWR.
The total production from ANWR would be between 0.4 and 1.2 percent of total world oil consumption in 2030. Consequently, ANWR oil production is not projected to have a large impact on world oil prices. Furthermore, the Energy Information Administration does not feel ANWR will affect the global price of oil when past behaviors of the oil market are considered.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has stated that the 1002 area has a “greater degree of ecological diversity than any other similar sized area of Alaska’s north slope.” The FWS also states, “Those who campaigned to establish the Arctic Refuge recognized its wild qualities and the significance of these spatial relationships. Here lies an unusually diverse assemblage of large animals and smaller, less-appreciated life forms, tied to their physical environments and to each other by natural, undisturbed ecological and evolutionary processes.”
The Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, which represents 229 Native Alaskan tribes, officially opposes any development in ANWR. In March 2005 Luci Beach, [40] the executive director of the steering committee for the Native Alaskan and Canadian Gwich’in tribe (a member of the AI-TC), during a trip to Washington D.C., while speaking for a unified group of 55 Alaskan and Canadian indigenous peoples, said that drilling in ANWR is “a human rights issue and it’s a basic Aboriginal human rights issue.” She went on to say, “Sixty to 70 percent of our diet comes from the land and caribou is one of the primary animals that we depend on for sustenance.” The Gwich’in tribe adamantly believes that drilling in ANWR would have serious negative effects on the calving grounds of the Porcupine Caribou herd that they partially rely on for food.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Refuge_drilling_controversy
All of this when:
“We also see an exponential progression in the use of solar energy,” ….. “It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we’ll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.” - Ray Kurzweil
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Traffic jams really capture the essence of humanity’s absurd systems of living. Rather than cooperate to build infrastructure that may have a large up front cost but long term benefits, many cities continue to pursue the “have 10,000 engines running at once going 1 km/h model” of transportation planning. It’s such a simple problem to solve when one steps back to look at the problem but the association of the car with individual freedom and the industries that profit from this kind of inefficiency continue to propagate the problem.
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The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) is a rare subspecies of tiger (P. tigris). Also known as the Amur tiger, it is confined completely to the Amur region in the Far East, where it is now protected. It is considered to be the largest of the six tiger subspecies and the largest member of the family Felidae.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_tiger
Siberian tiger in a zoo. [1]
Prowling through the snow. [2]
Close-up of the face and mouth. [3]
Siberian tiger and its child. [4]
Another shot of a family. [5]
Leaping through the snow on a hunt. [6]
Stalking its prey. [7]
White Siberian Tiger hugging its former trainer. [8]
Leaping through the snowy tundra. [9]
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