Conservationists say there is only one breeding pair of Hen Harriers left in England and claim numbers have dwindled over the last decade partly because of illegal killing (RT @TinaHood1: BBC - Would changing the law protect Britain's birds of prey?
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Renowned biologist George Schaller has been traveling to the Tibetan Plateau for nearly three decades, studying its unique wildlife. Via Maria Nunzia Delete the scoop?
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Jan 23, 2013 YALE ENVIRONMENT After more than four decades as a leading environmentalist, Gus Speth is disillusioned with what has been accomplished. What's needed now, he says in an interview with Yale Environment 360, is a transformative change in America's political economy that will benefit both society and the planet ... http://e360.yale.edu/feature/interview_gus_speth_charting_new_course_for_us_and_environment/2612/
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Scuba News and Ocean Conservation, by James Sacci: Daily articles compiled from Twitter influencers related to scuba, ocean conservation, and climate change. (Scuba News and Ocean Conservation is out! Delete the scoop?
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It's a basic human desire to separate an OREO cookie. Humans love either cookie or creme. And sometimes a man just needs to invent a machine to do the hard w... Delete the scoop?
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Fragments of an ancient continent are buried beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, a new study suggests. Delete the scoop?
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Fossils, as we typically think of them, tell us about the death of an animal. The teeth, bones, shells, fragmented pseudopods and other weird and wonderful bits of carcass all only ever reflect one thing: a permanent geological ... Via Catherine Russell Delete the scoop?
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Reducing carbon dioxide emissions may not be enough to curb global warming, say Stanford University scientists. The solution could require carbon-negative technologies that actually remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. Via Michele Diodati Delete the scoop?
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Bumblebees can detect and distinguish electrical signals given by flowers to enhance discrimination and memory of floral rewards, a study suggests. Via Sakis Koukouvis 
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Thirty years ago, the French philosopher and literary theorist Jean-François Lyotard published a prescient “report on knowledge” called The Postmodern Condition. Via Pierre Levy Delete the scoop?
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Conservationists say there is only one breeding pair of Hen Harriers left in England and claim numbers have dwindled over the last decade partly because of illegal killing (RT @TinaHood1: BBC - Would changing the law protect Britain's birds of prey?
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WWF INDIA, DIRECTOR, CONSERVATION POLICY. Posted on 21 February 2013. Director – Conservation Policy. WWF India is looking for a dynamic and motivated individual to work closely with the current Director of its ... Delete the scoop?
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California's plan for reducing wildfire devastation is both drastic and unnecessary. The current proposal involves the destruction of nearly 38 million acres of land, far more than any wildfire season itself would demolish. Delete the scoop?
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My retirement plan of moving to the mountains and living off the land just got expedited. Grosser Than Horse Meat http://t.co/HENUWVLyj1 Delete the scoop?
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A new video standard enables a fourfold increase in the resolution of TV screens, and an MIT chip was the first to handle it in real time.
It took only a few years for high-definition televisions to make the transition from high-priced novelty to ubiquitous commodity — and they now seem to be heading for obsolescence just as quickly. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, several manufacturers debuted new ultrahigh-definition, or UHD, models (also known as 4K or Quad HD) with four times the resolution of today’s HD TVs. Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald Delete the scoop?
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Stunning new data not yet publicly released shows Louisiana losing its battle with rising seas much more quickly than even the most pessimistic studies have predicted to date.
While state officials continue to argue over restoration projects to save the state’s sinking, crumbling coast, top researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have concluded that Louisiana is in line for the highest rate of sea-level rise “on the planet.”
The news of NOAA’s new calculations comes on the heels a 2011 U.S. Geological Survey report, which found that coastal Louisiana had lost 1,883 square miles of land between 1932 and 2010 — an area almost the size of the state of Delaware. (See the map at the top of this post.) From 1985 to 2010, the report found a rate of wetland loss amounting to 16.57 square miles every year. That works out to the loss of an area the size of one football field every hour.
Nearly half of that wetland loss occurred in the Terrebonne and Barataria wetland basins. These are home to Terrebonne Parish, source of inspiration to Beasts director Zeitlin, and neighboring Lafourche parish. (The latter was in the news in early January, with reports of cemeteries washing away.) Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald 
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how fast should we be working to replace our old poluting technologys with substainable ones, with the speed that global warming change is happening the sooner the better I think ! 
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Not really sea level rise, it seems, but land subsiding. Otherwise, why only there?
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Will robots put us all out of work? FT Alphaville's Cardiff Garcia and Izabella Kaminska discuss how technology is making jobs obsolete at a historically high rate, and how it may be accelerating.
We had a lot of fun making this short video, which is based on a topic that’s been discussed energetically in the blogosphere and elsewhere for a few months, and which has captured Izabella’s fascination for nearly a year. In addition to Izzy’s work, we drew on many blog posts and other readings in our discussion, and regrettably we didn’t have time to hat tip everyone in the video itself. We include those links below and thank their authors, and of course any misrepresentations are entirely our fault. Better than human – Kevin Kelly Will a robot take your job? – Gary Marcus Robots and robber barons – Paul Krugman Myth of the jobless recovery – Matt Yglesias The end of labor – Timothy Noah And special thanks go to Andrew Smithers and Martin Ford for the two charts we used in the video. Another wonderful set of links can be found at Izzy’s tumblr, which you should be reading in any case. And again be sure to check out her beyond scarcity series. Via James Keith Delete the scoop?
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Searching for magnetic monopoles in polar rocks Space Daily The first search for magnetic monopoles in mantle-derived polar igneous rocks - thought to be likely to contain a higher ratio of monopoles to matter - has been conducted by researchers in... Via Catherine Russell Delete the scoop?
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MIT researchers' new method for observing the motion of electron density waves in a superconducting material led to the detection of two different kinds of variations in those waves: amplitude (or intensity) changes and phase changes, shifting the relative positions of peaks and troughs of intensity. These new findings could make it easier to search for new kinds of higher-temperature superconductors. While the phenomenon of superconductivity — in which some materials lose all resistance to electric currents at extremely low temperatures — has been known for more than a century, the temperature at which it occurs has remained too low for any practical applications. The discovery of “high-temperature” superconductors in the 1980s — materials that could lose resistance at temperatures of up to negative 140 degrees Celsius — led to speculation that a surge of new discoveries might quickly lead to room-temperature superconductors. Despite intense research, these materials have remained poorly understood.
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Regional Director at Fauna & Flora International (FFI), Dr Tony Whitten, shares his grave concern for the wondrous and diverse lifeforms that lurk in the darkness of Asia's karst landscapes. (Welcome to the #Anthropocene. Delete the scoop?
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Feb 25, 2013 The biomimetic design could increase water delivery efficiency, decrease water-borne illness, and lower wastewater operating costs.... http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/fish-gill-inspired-water-management-system-wins-student-design-contest.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+%28Treehugger%29
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