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allabouthumansupremacy:

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Once this Alberta, Canada landscape was a pristine wilderness roamed by deer now it’s ‘the most destructive industrial project on earth’

*Lush green forests once blanketed an area of the Tar Sands at Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, larger than England

*Area where blackened earth now stands dubbed by environmentalists as most destructive industrial project on earth

*Boreal forest - once home to grizzly bears, moose and bison - is vanishing at rate second to Amazon deforestation

ARTICLE/SEE THE PHOTOS:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219240/Tar-Sands-Canada-worlds-largest-oil-reserve-173billion-untouched-barrels.html

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Wind turbines can kill bats without impact, they die because their lungs explode from a drop in air pressure. - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14593-wind-turbines-make-bat-lungs-explode.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

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nrdc:

What Trees Mean to Communities

In a recent blog post, NRDC’s director of sustainable communities, Kaid Benfield shares a few impressive facts about trees, via the National Arbor Day Foundation and the US Forest Service:

• The net cooling effect of a young, healthy tree is equivalent to ten room-size air conditioners operating 20 hours a day.
• If you plant a tree today on the west side of your home, in 5 years your energy bills should be 3 percent less. In 15 years the savings will be nearly 12 percent.
• One acre of forest absorbs six tons of carbon dioxide and puts out four tons of oxygen. 
• A number of studies have shown that real estate agents and home buyers assign between 10 and 23 percent of the value of a residence to the trees on the property.
• Surgery patients who could see a grove of deciduous trees recuperated faster and required less pain-killing medicine than matched patients who viewed only brick walls.
• In one study, stands of trees reduced particulates by 9 to 13 percent, and the amount of dust reaching the ground was 27 to 42 percent less under a stand of trees than in an open area.

Read more.

Photo: Kaid Benfield

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earthfixseekssalmon:

The Pebble Mine in Alaska is causing even an “ideal redneck Republican” like legislator Rick Halford to come out against it.

earthandscience:

Rick Halford is a “manifest destiny” kind of Alaskan. He cleared his land with dynamite. He calls himself the “ideal redneck Republican”. As a longtime leader in the state legislature, he never met a hard-rock mine he didn’t like.

That is, until he took a long look at the proposed Pebble Mine in south-west Alaska. It is a phenomenal prospect, the biggest and richest in North America. But to dig a mine there is to make a Faustian bargain that involves an agonizing Alaskan twist.

In return for copper and gold worth an estimated $500bn (£320bn), state and federal regulators risk poisoning what scientists describe as the last best place on earth for millions of wild salmon.

Read more @ Ripples from Pebble felt far from Alaska | Environment

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jtotheizzoe:

Burning Up The Climate Record Books

328: The magic number

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released their latest “State of the Climate” report. June 2012 marks the 328th month in a row that global surface temperatures – the temperatures that affect our local climate and weather - were above average. This unfortunate proof of the “new normal” is just the latest straw on the climate camel’s back, and you really have to wonder how many more it will take before more people start to view this as the serious situation that it is.

Some other high/lowlights:

• The Northern Hemisphere was more than 2˚F above normal for June, an all-time record.
• Globally, June 2012 was the warmest on record (for land temps).
• Ocean temperatures, whose rise is perhaps more dangerous than land (feeding extreme weather and ice melt), were at their 10th highest level on record.

There’s hope, however. A new poll from Stanford University and The Washington Post says that 6 in 10 Americans now agree that the climate is changing, and two-thirds want the U.S. to lead the world in fighting climate change. They can’t yet agree on what that means, exactly. More interesting tidbits from that poll here.

Previously: Record highs to record lows ratio at 10:1 in 2012! Ack!

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