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Original Technorati articles tagged “ecology”

• in Film
  Bag It (2010) Explores Our Brief Yet Everlasting Relationships with Plastic
  Paper or plastic? Or do you take your own bags to the grocery store?
  by missbobetier / on Mar 11, 2012
• in Film
  Take a Fresh (2009) Look at How to Improve Our Food Supply
  New thinking about what we’re eating.
  by missbobetier / on Mar 11, 2012
• in Entertainment
  Buffing Up Your Brain: This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman
  Are you willing to take a chance on a book titled THIS WILL MAKE YOU SMARTER?
  by missbobetier / on Mar 7, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “ecology”

 

• Tûranor PlanetSolar, the world’s largest fully...

  
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  Tûranor PlanetSolar, the world’s largest fully solar-powered boat, docked in New York.Via Phys.org [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• People talking #11

  
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  Is it really six months since I posted the last open thread? I do apologise — please avail yourselves of the facility. I’m busy battening down the hatches before the first big winter storm hits, and preparing for the first Climate Show recording in a long while. Meanwhile, severe weather in Europe is striking very ...
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• The Hula Valley is a fresh-water-rich agricultural region in...

  
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  The Hula Valley is a fresh-water-rich agricultural region in Israel’s north. It is a major stopover for birds during migration and is home to a large variety of species. In the 1950s Lake Hula was drained to prevent the spread of malaria, and this was thought to have led to the extinction of the Hula painted frog. ...
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• Definition of the geographic areas covered in the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment

  
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  The Arctic Council study on trends in the polar ecosystems - the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA) focuses on the areas displayed in this map. The high- and low Arctic regions are defined from the bioclimatic zones in the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM), while the sub-Arctic zone is the area definition ...
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• by TLV faces staff on June 16, 2013Two women living in Even...

  
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  by TLV faces staff on June 16, 2013 Two women living in Even Yehuda have come up with a creative solution to the Israeli housing crisis: they transformed an out-of-use public bus into a luxury living space. Tali Shaul, a psychotherapist and Hagit Morevski, an ecological pond water treatment specialist, in  an ...
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• Israeli Scientist: Virus Causing Bees to Disappear

  
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  By David Lev First Publish: 6/17/2013, 1:46 AM An Israeli scientist says that he has found the answer to a riddle that has plagued scientists for the past several years: Why are bees disappearing? The answer, according to Professor Ilan Sela of Hebrew University is because they are succumbing to a virus. ...
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• Climate Change Getting Worse by the Minute

  
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  What goes up and doesnt come down? Greenhouse gas emissions, apparently . The world set another record in 2012, spewing some 31.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, methane , hydrofluorocarbons and other greenhouse gases into the air. [More]
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• Prat watch #11: don’t fone us…

  
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  B ill McKibben must have been doing something right during his New Zealand tour : he’s drawn the ire of the local climate cranks in no uncertain fashion. Perhaps it was the packed houses he addressed in Auckland, Dunedin and Wellington, or his interview on RNZ National’s high-rating Saturday Morning show with ...
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• The Gulf of Mexico, 3 Years after BP

  
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  Dear EarthTalk : The three-year anniversary of the 2010 BP oil spill just passed. What do green groups think of the progress since in restoring the region? --Mary Johannson, New York City [More]
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• Media Archaeology & Technological Debris [London]

  
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  Media Archaeology & Technological Debris Conference :: June 21, 2013; 10:00 am - 5:30 pm :: NAB LG01 (New Academic Building), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London ( map ) :: Free, open to the public, no reservations necessary. Conference speakers: Sean Cubitt (Media & Comms, Goldsmiths); ...
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• Human Population Growth Creeps Back Up

  
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  UNITED NATIONS -- Earths human population is expected to coast upward to 9.6 billion by 2050 and 10.9 billion by 2100, up from 7.2 billion people alive today, a United Nations agency has projected. [More]
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• To reach emissions targets, UK government must invest in nuclear

  
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  There are few more important pieces of legislation under discussion in the UK than the Electricity Market Reform Bill. Though noble in its ambition to re-sculpt the energy landscape from a dependence on coal and gas towards low carbon technologies, there are overarching concerns as to whether the mechanisms it ...
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• 2013 Postgraduate PhD Position in Animal Ecology at Uppsala University, Sweden

  
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  Uppsala University is offering postgraduate PhD position in animal ecology for Swedish students at the Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary .. [Read Full Scholarship Detail]
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• The March Of The Desert

  
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  Desertification is the process in which fertile land slowly turns into sand-filled deserts. It’s happening all around the world, and increasingly so in the United States. It’s a direct result of poor environmental decisions, livestock grazing, and landowner neglect. The good news is that it’s also reversible and ...
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• Chris Maser - "Forest Ecology"

  
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  Chris Masers "Forest Ecology" talk has been rescheduled for June 20th. The time: 8:30 until noon. The place: Longmire Community Building. Feel free to join us! The presentation will include a walk around the Longmire Volunteer Campground.
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• "He needs to be a Youtube star."

  
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  Oliver the green moray eel loves to be petted. With small children, a fish popsicle, and commentary about barracudas. (SLYT) Eels, previously .
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• 16 May, 2013 – This Week in Science

  
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  (http://www.twis.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/TWIS_podcast_logo-e1277863172926.jpg) Not So Random, Doomsday Higgs, Size Matters, Anxious Fish, Interview w/ Dr. Brian Hare About Dognition, And Much More...Disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer!!!Stem cells raise the specter of cloning ...
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• Parasites Get No Respect In Food Web Theory?

  
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  Parasites comprise a large proportion of the diversity of species in every ecosystem but they are rarely included in analyses or models of food webs.  Would it make a difference? A new paper says that including parasites does alter the structure of food webs, but that most changes occur because of an increase in ...
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• Moves Trump Speed For Cheetahs

  
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  Cheetahs reign as the fastest land mammals, capable of sprinting at speeds reaching about 65 miles an hour. But when hunting in the wild, the big cats rarely reach top speed. Instead they rely on rapid acceleration and agility to catch their prey. That’s according to a study in the journal Nature . [A.M. Wilson et ...
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• Ethiopia Ratifies Nile Treaty in Snub to Egypt

  
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  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopias parliament unanimously ratified a treaty on Thursday that strips Egypt of its right to the lions share of the Nile river waters, raising the political temperature in a dispute between Cairo and Addis Ababa over the construction of a dam. The parliaments move follows ...
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