Tag: Climate Change
Al Gore’s Formidable Opponent – Stephen Colbert
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Formidable Opponent – Global Warming With Al Gore | ||||
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Ocean Phlegm Balls
via National Geographic
Giant, Mucus-Like Sea Blobs on the Rise, Pose Danger
New Mileage Standards Announced
Last week the Obama administration proposed new rules that would increase the average fuel efficiency of cars and light trucks by 40%
The Robin’s Nest: A New Set of Circumstances
from filmmaker Stephen Thomson “The Robin’s Nest: A New Set of Circumstances”
Stephen posted this description on Current:
Plomomedia’s environmental focus brings original music and the imagery of San Francisco (including its 2007 oil spill) to the sampled voice of Janine Benyus, author of “Biomimicry” as she likens man-made technology to other natural processes. “Our technologies are natural,” she states. “The question is: how well adapted are they?”
Footage shot from 2007-2009 at San Francisco’s Sutro Park, Ocean Beach, Land’s End, and elsewhere along the coast.
Mystery “Blob” in Arctic: Algae or “The Thing”?
Time Magazine has a story on a massive “blob” in the Arctic Ocean off the Alaska coast. Tests have deemed it to be a massive bloom of algae.
World’s First Self-Watering Plant?
Desert rhubarb in bloom (G. Ne’eman)
World’s First Ever Self-Watering Plant Discovered in Israel
The Plant That Can Water Itself
” The Desert Rhubarb can hold 16 times more water than its rivals and has developed a unique ability to effectively water itself in its barren habitat.
Scientists claim ridges in the leaves act like mountain valleys, funnelling the water slowly and directly into the plant while stopping it evaporating. A team from the Department of Science Education-Biology at the University of Haifa-Oranim, in Israel, said the leaves act like a mini irrigation system. Lead researcher Professor Gidi Ne’eman said “We know of no other plant in the deserts of the world that functions in this manner. We have managed to make out the ‘self-irrigating’ mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region based on the quantities of rain in the desert.”
The topography of the leaves channels water to the roots (S. Lev-Yadun)