Taiji Opens Season on Dolphins Today

Photo via Animal Planet Each year in early September, Japan opens season on dolphins, and today marks the start of the season in Taiji, a now notorious place for slaughtering cetaceans thanks to the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove . And of course, activist Ric O’Barry is on the move. He delivered a petition to the US Embassy in Tokyo signed by 1.7 million people from 155 countries demanding an end to ..

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New Bee Species Discovered During Downtown Toronto Commute

Example of a sweat bee — Metallic colored sweat bee species are diverse, and difficult to identify to which species a specimen belongs; photo via zackzen Researchers Jason Gibbs who was working on a study of sweat bees discovered a new species while commuting from downtown Toronto to York University. It is one of 19 new species he found while examining 84 species of sweat bees in Canada — so named because they are attracted to perspiration — which are common in North America

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Live On From Beyond The Groove: Have Your Ashes Pressed Into Vinyl

TreeHugger has reviewed many different, greener things to do with our bodies after we have shuffled off the mortal coil, from freeze-drying to composting .

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Live On From Beyond The Groove: Have Your Ashes Pressed Into Vinyl

be trashy.

If being green was a class in school, the first lesson would probably be, “don’t litter”, right? We all know that it’s not good to litter, but have you ever thought about why?

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The Fascinating Life and Times of the Humble Pigeon

Photo via fabriziogiordano23 If you´re a city dweller, chances are you see them everyday – strolling down the sidewalk with their friends, having lunch at a local cafe, or just hanging out in the park. But for as much as we share with our urban lifestyles , few animals are as misunderstood or as maligned as the humble pigeon

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Incredible Blind Animals That are Hardly Senseless (Slideshow)

Image credit: johntrainor /Flickr In the comic Daredevil , mild-mannered Mathew Murdock is blinded when a chemical spills onto his face from a passing truck. With his vision impaired, the rest of his senses become heightened. Plot devices aside, nature is full of animals that, lacking a highly-developed sense of sight, are able to accomplish incredible things with their other senses

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Vanishing of the Bees: Film Documents Ongoing Honeybee Decline (Video)

Image credit: Vanishing Bees Honeybees have had a hard time of late. Yet while Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) was all over the news last year, this year the media have found other crises to focus on. Sadly, that doesn’t mean the problem has gone away—in fact, Planet 100 reported only this week that h oneybee colonies are continuing to disappear at alarming rates

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NYC’s Empire State Building is Going Dark this Fall to Save Migratory Birds

Photo: Wikipedia , CC The Lights Out NY Campaign Just in New York City, about 90,000 migratory birds die each year by colliding with buildings. The Lights Out campaign, which started in Chicago and is organized by the Audubon society , aims to save migratory birds by dimming the lights of skyscrapers during the peak migratory season each Fall.

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Facebook Game Rescues Virtual Chickens, and Real Ones Too

Image credit: Farm Rescue From unborn chicks injected with antibiotics , to the horrors of a commercial chicken hatchery , the life of a factory farmed chicken is pretty brutish from the outset. And we haven’t even gotten into the potential health hazards posed by meat unfit for KFC being served to our kids .

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BP Spill Oil Already Entering the Gulf Food Chain

Photo via NOLA The recent discovery of trace amounts of oil in blue crab larvae has left experts forecasting dire news for the Gulf ecosystem.

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