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For Subway Map Lovers (I Know You’re Out There!)
We have done many posts about subway maps, and they are always pretty popular. It seems like there’s a large group of people out there who enjoy looking at subway maps from around the world (who knew?). Today, I have a treat for these people. I stumbled on a site that has subway maps from around the world, and they’ve all be normalized to the same scale so that it’s easier to compare them…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Soaring With a Unique Point of View
I just found a couple of great videos filmed by miniature cameras strapped on birds of preys (thank you <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dg0n3/cameras_att… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: Richard Barnes

Taken individually, the European starling appears to be a mundane species; the kind of bird that is present in backyards around the world, pecking at insects, darting from one place to the next.

But when these gregarious birds flock together, they form a swarm that is more reminiscent of the Smoke Monster from Lost t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Images via Penn State, Credit Timetree of Life project

How are humans linked to prehistoric bacteria? When did cats and dogs evolve away from each other? Everything you wanted to know about the timescale of life on Earth is heaped in one giant project called TimeTree of Life, a brilliant idea to chart the entire timescale of the evolution of life on our planet. It was dreamed up by Sudhir Kumar, a Ph.D. grad from Penn State and who is now director of the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics at Arizona State University. The project… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Map of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). Image: www.phoenixislands.org

Kiribati, a Pacific nation of 33 atolls and lying just barely two meters above sea level, is one of the countries that’s on the front-lines of climate change. With its very existence is threatened to be wiped out by rising waters, Kiribati recently made a unprecedented decision: despite its overwhelming dependence on fishing, by 2050 it will forbid it in over… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Knowing that a species is endangered is one thing, but knowing how to save it is a whole other problem. For the Grevy’s zebra, which has only 2,500 individuals left in the wild, how and why people hunt them. IBM has created a new predictive analytics software that Marwell Wildlife can use to collect huge amounts of complex information — such as what herdsmen think about the zebras, where the animals are located, why they hunt the… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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You like to-may-toes and I like to-mah-toes
Up until recently, botanists believed that there to be over one million types of flowering plants on Earth, but now about 600 thousand of those species my soon be cut from the list — but extinction’s not to blame this time. It turns out that after decades of cataloging plants from around the world, there… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Acorns are piling up around the U.S., threatening to cover some cities in nuts. Not really, but there have been an “exceptionally large number of acorns” dropped by oak trees around the country this year, Chicago-area experts say. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Officials in Kuwait have announced that a comprehensive survey of their territorial waters has revealed that about 90% of the corals there are dead or dying. The head of the Kuwait Diving Team, Walid Al-Fadhel, said in a statement: “this requires quick action by the competent authorities to find out the real causes, as well as solutions.” He also called on frequent goers to these marine natural sites to refrain from any action that may inflict damage in the reefs or kill the creatures co-existing with them…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The above headline may seem to describe an overly imaginative kid’s overly ambitious idea for a science fair project. But no, it’s a plan conjured up and carried out by working conservationists in Guam. So when do poison-laced mice need to be parachuted from helicopters into natural forest under any circumstances? When you have a rampant, invasive species of tree snake to kill off, of course…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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