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Image via Facebook

This is begging for a “You know you’re a treehugger if…” joke, the punchline being “if you have a tree as your friend on Facebook.” And there is a century-old tree in Belgium that can fit the bill. It is actually a very social media-savvy tree, with a Twitter stream and Flickr account. It is actually part of a really cool project that brings the life of a tree into the same daily buzz as our human lives, including leaf-eye views of what it “sees” every day. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via djandzoya

It seemed like a plan just sinister enough to work: ship in a bunch of rat-eating opossums to combat Brooklyn’s rodent problem. But as opposed to doing their job and dying off as city officials had planned, the opossums proved to be poor rat-killers, preferring instead to settle down in buildings and neighborhood parks. Now community leaders are fed up with the marauding animals rummaging through trashcans, hanging out in yards, and feeding themselves from local <a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The oil-rig-turned-hotel. Photo via Seaventures Dive Resort.

This time, it’s for real: The type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico has actually been carried out in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, where an old oil-drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image Credit: AP Photo/World Wide Fund for Nature

As far as endangered species go, it’s mostly bad news, with the occasional positive story. Well this news seems to fall somewhere in the middle: in late August, a group of Laotian villagers in the Annamite Mountains captured a saola, one of the rarest animals on the planet. The Bolikhamxay Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office, advised by the IUCN Saola Working Group and the Lao Programme of the Wildlife Conservation Societ… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Just as scientists make forward progress towards a cure for the contagious face-eating cancer plaguing Tasmanian devils, an outbreak of mysterious skin lesions has spread through at least on population of bottle-nosed dolphins…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How Awesome is Copenhagen? Very Awesome!
Our friend Clarence at Streetfilms has just released the third short film in his ‘Copenhagen Trilogy’, and it is great! We’ve written a lot about <a href="… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Neozoon

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Art has always been used to make people think about a variety of issues, from un-subtle propaganda posters to great literary novels that make us see the world through the eyes of people very different from us. Somewhere in between those extremes lies Neozoon, a European collective of street artists that has decided to use discarded fur coats to make a point about how we related to and treat animals. See below for many more photos of their very cool “fur graffitis”…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via Philadelphia Zoo

Take a trip through the week’s biggest animal news stories — from warrior worms to the birth of a rare baby aye-aye and the sad news on a incredibly rare Asian unicorn.

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The Bat Tower under construction in Griffis Sculpture Park. Photo via GOOD.

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the spooky occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy “Bat Tower” a group of architectural students is building to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area — and to raise awareness about th… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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