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The Endangered Species Act exists to protect biodiversity. It can only work when species listed as endangered are actually afforded the protections guaranteed to them in the Act. Unfortunately these days, even earning classification as an endangered species doesn’t always mean safety from...

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Things are not looking good for the honey bee. Entire colonies of bees are dying simultaneously, and no one knows why. Well, that’s not exactly true. Dozens of studies have linked the mass die-offs to a powerful new class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids widely used in commercial...

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Jan. 10, 2013: In this photo from NASA’s Aqua satellite, haze below the Himalayas blankets Northern India and Bangladesh, likely the result of fires, urban and industrial pollution, and a meteorological phenomenon called temperature inversion. NASA image courtesy of Jeff Schmaltz/ Lance-Modis Rapid Response team

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— NYT Exposures: Gorgeous Glimpses of Calamity

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I tested Walmart’s brand of bottled water and I was shocked to see they sell the most toxic water ever. I tested for Total Dissolved Solids using a TDS meter and the number I got was 271. THAT IS THE MOST TOXIC WATER I HAVE EVER SEEN. Even NYC tap water TDS score is 39. Poland Spring is 42. The water is not even drinkable. I think it’s Criminal to even make profits from selling this water filled with sodium fluoride and who knows what else is in that. 500 ppm (parts per million) is the EPA Maximum but even though the FDA is corrupt their recommended is 000, which is pure. THE ONLY BOTTLED WATER THAT READS 000 IS DUANEreade/Walgreens ‘NICE’ branded water. PLEASE SHARE THIS INFO ALONG.

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please dont buy anything from walmart. it’s a disgusting place that funds slavery and poison

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NASA Probe Gets Close Views of Large Saturn Hurricane

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Wolf by Hanae Kolodzinski

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“This is the very first ‘International Empty the Tanks’ protest. On this day we will globally come together as one body and use our voices, to stand up against this cruel industry. We must let SeaWorld and all captive facilities know that we will not stop being a voice for these precious creatures who have lost their right to freedom, their right to live a natural life and are now imprisoned, artificially inseminated and forced to perform ‘tricks’ for food, all for human entertainment.

It is time to EMPTY THE TANKS.”

Protest times and more information available here

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I’ll be at the one in VEGAS!!!!!!!!!

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I’ll be protesting in Atlanta!

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On March 29, 2013, ExxonMobile’s Pegasus pipeline burst in Mayflower, AR, spewing an estimated 5,000 barrels of tar sands oil through town neighborhoods and into a marsh connected to Lake Conway, one of the biggest recreational fishing areas in the state.

This is a fresh reminder of what is at stake. Stand up to big oil by sending a message to Secretary of State, John Kerry. We need to know the TRUE environmental cost of the KXL Pipeline.

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You Can Hear When Trees Are Thirsty

Imagine you’re just polishing off a glass of soda. Whatever liquid left in the straw makes that gurgling sound indicative that there’s just nothing left in the glass to drink. Turns out, trees under drought stress make the same sad sound, and a few researchers hope they can use that acoustic signature to identify and save otherwise-doomed trees. That trees make noise (beyond the delicate rustle of leaves in the wind) is no secret. But teasing out the specific physical phenomena that cause the various arboreal noises has eluded researchers. At the recent meeting of the American Physical Society, scientists from Grenoble University in France presented research that not only were they able to determine that drought-stressed trees make noise, they were also able to show exactly which process created the sound. To really grok the research, it’s helpful to understand how trees transport water. Trees draw ground water up through specialized tubes called xylem, relying on intermolecular forces between water molecules and themselves, and water molecules and the sides of the tubes, to create a single column of unbroken water in each xylem tube. But as groundwater dries up, the trees must pull harder on the remaining water; if the pressure is greater than the strength of the intermolecular forces, the column of water breaks and an air bubble forms. This process is called cavitation. Too many air bubbles can mean death for the tree. To ensure that these air bubbles were the culprits behind the acoustic signature of drought-parched trees, the researchers mocked up a tree in the lab. They placed a thin piece of pine wood, complete with its xylem intact, into a capsule filled with a gel. As the researchers evaporated the water out of the gel — a test “drought” — they simultaneously recorded video and sound of the cavitation in the xylem. The researchers discovered that about half of the sounds made by a tree are due to cavitation, and that the process has its own unique acoustical signature. In the future, the researchers say, forest managers could use a hand-held acoustic device to identify water-stressed trees before permanent damage sets in.

Source: popsci.com

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Gorgeous Oil Paintings of Breaking Waves

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Daredevil Brian Mosbaugh defies death with amazing stunts along highline 2,800 feet above Rio de Janeiro

The thrill-seeker and his fellow thrill-seekers, nicknamed the Moab Monkeys, traveled to Brazil to walk across the 328-foot-long Pedra da Gavea highline and BASE jump from city apartment buildings. Mosbaugh says these death-defying stunts help him accomplish his life’s purpose of ‘seeking better personal balance.’

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