Polar bears already face a number of perils: melting ice, grolar bears, Sarah Palin. Now it seems there may be even more bad news for bears. According to a recent BBC article, California scientists are giving hearing tests to polar bears to find out whether they could be adversely affected by increased noise from Arctic urbanization.
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The holidays are fast approaching, and it’s never too early to start shopping for that someone special in your life. Lucky for you, we’ve got the perfect gift for the “Joe Six-Pack”/”Hockey Mom” set: A “Sarah-Cuda” hunting bow from Lakota Industries.
Unfortunately—and as much as we’d all like it to be—this is not a hoax. The Ohio-based company created a custom-designed, pink camouflage hunting bow (dubbed, the Sarah-Cuda), in honor of VP candidate Sarah Palin. The handy-dandy hunting bow weighs a mere 3.4 pounds (ideal for gals of dainty proportions), and sells for $590.
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‘Tis the season for pumpkin spice lattes, Sarah Palin jokes, and…clean energy plans? Lately, it seems like everyone and their Mom has been outlining plans for America’s energy future. Al Gore recently said that Americans need to be totally carbon-free by 2018, while oil tycoon-cum-clean energy supporter T. Boone Pickens launched a campaign to make America energy independent by using wind power and natural gas.
Now, Google becomes the latest entity to join the energy-plan fray. Yesterday, the search engine announced it would pour $4.4 trillion into its Clean Energy 2030 plan, a proposal to greatly reduce America’s reliance on fossil fuels over the next 22 years.
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“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” And if you buy this car listed on eBay, you won’t need gasoline, either.
A recent eBay ad lists a 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 for sale. (If this means nothing to you, it’s the vehicle that transports Doc Brown and Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy. And if this still means nothing to you, perhaps you should stop reading blogs and get thyself to a Blockbuster). As if a DeLorean isn’t cool enough on its own, the owner of this particular vehicle converted it to run on electric power. Green and awesomely retro!
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Bush’s environmental record isn’t exactly pristine (much unlike the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), which some politicians want to start drilling for oil), but just how much the current administration has mucked up the environment is hard to picture without a nicely bulleted list in front of you. Luckily, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has that list of the Bush Administration’s environmental misdeeds, which she so graciously provided in an opening statement at a recent Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing. Here are some of the report’s more disturbing low points:
Continue reading Senator Barbara Boxer slams the Bush Administration’s environmental policies
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