Amazon Tribe Battles Rabid Vampire Bats

Image credit: Zeusandhera /Flickr At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. It sounds like the plot from a bad B-movie, but the reality is far more grim: More than 500 people have been infected and at least four children have died.

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New Wooden RFID Tags Could Reduce Illegal Logging

Trees, like animals, get tagged with radio chips : the chips help timber companies keep track of their product and fight illegal logging.

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Even Logged Rainforest Holds High Biodiversity Levels & Is Worth Protecting: Study

Logged forest on left, unlogged forest on right… photo: Wakx via flickr Conventional political wisdom on rainforest degradation is that once you’ve logged an area once, or even twice, removing the largest most valuable trees, the forest becomes degraded to the point that biodiversity losses make it not worth protecting

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Thailand Attempts to Solve Overfishing By Dumping Tanks, Trains and Trucks into Sea (Video)

Thailand has decided to dump 27 army tanks, 273 old train carts, and 198 garbage trucks into the sea. It’s a whole lot of scrap metal hitting the ocean floor, but it’s all in an effort to create an artificial reef to solve the problem of overfishing. Government officials believe that by providing more habitat for species, the fishing industry can be sustained.

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Toronto To Get Bixi Bike System; Will It Get Strangled At Birth?

Like American cities, Toronto is taxed-starved to the point that a couple of years ago it couldn’t find $75K to save its community yellow bike system. But its gotta be, as a former mayor used to say, “World Class”, so if Paris and London and Montreal have bike share systems, so does Toronto. It is bringing Montreal’s Bixi system to town, or a small portion thereof.

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Pakistan Now Holds Record for "Hottest Reliably Measured" Temp in Asia

Photo via the Guardian It’s been a hot, hot summer — as if you needed me to tell you that.

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Wax And Soap May Be Key to Better Rechargeable Batteries

Image via Gizmag Rechargable batteries are not all that great yet. In fact, in a question posted to Pablo Paster in our “Ask Pablo” series, the inquiry wasn’t which rechargeable batteries to use, but “Why do rechargeable batteries suck?” But researchers are working on ways to improve them so they last longer per charge and have more recharge cycles in their lifespan, without increasing the cost or complexity of the batteries.

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Reforestation Projects Better Than Monoculture Tree Plantations for Capturing & Storing Carbon

photo courtesy Dr John Kanowski Australian scientists studying the amount of carbon stored in monoculture tree plantations and reforested areas of damaged rainforests have found that, though reforestation is more expensive than establishing a plantation it is more efficient for capturing carbon.

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11 Master Chefs Driving the Green Food Movement (Slideshow)

photo: Fredrik Brauer Around the world, master chefs have long been the face of sustainable eating. After all, sustainably-sourced food tends to be better for you and tastier . From waking up at the crack of dawn to hit the fish market, to hand-picking heirloom produce, chefs understand that their menus are only as good as their ingredients.

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Black Carbon Pollution From Fossil Fuels Causes Twice the Warming As Burning Biomass

photo: Peter Gibbons via flickr More on the important role that black carbon soot plays in increasing global warming and what can be done about it: A new study published in Nature Geoscience found that the amount of solar radiation absorbed increased as the ratio of black carbon to sulphate rose.

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