Building new roads has been a major contributor to the city’s unsustainable growth, newly released Landsat photos show, but more of the same appears to be on the horizon.
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Mike Carpenter’s coffee tables are handmade from reclaimed materials, and have mini gardens built in. Photo: EduardoDuarte / cc The sprawling Amazon rainforest is easily one of the most fascinating and mysterious regions on the planet, what with its dark, dense vegetation that stretches across the horizon like an unimaginable vast sea of green, home to an untold number of undiscovered species — but the depths of the Amazon’s secrets just got a whole lot deeper. According to a team of Brazilian scientists, over 2 miles beneath the region’s lush surface lies an enormous underground river which runs nearly the entire length of the Amazon river…. Read the full story on TreeHugger Image credit Wired I love the Wired magazine series “Found ” which “represents our best guess at what lies over the horizon, from touchscreen windshields to organ farming.” They nailed it with this one, a “you-rinal” that analyzes your urine, determines the state of your health, and feeds appropriate google ads for just what you need to fix your physical and mental issues…. Maps of the BP Gulf oil leak show the extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; fishing closures; the devastation facing bird, turtle and fish habitats; forecasts of how far the oil could travel, the Gulf of Mexico loop current and more. Despite the apparent initial success of the “top kill,” 39 days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, it’s quite possible that the BP oil spill is three times as big as the Exxon Valdez . Despite the apparent initial success of the “top kill,” 39 days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, it’s quite possible that the BP oil spill is three times as big as the Exxon Valdez . Are most Gulf beaches really clean and safe following the BP Gulf oil spill ? The Deepwater Horizon rig explosion had created an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that’s already bigger than the Exxon Valdez, and it’s still leaking thousands of barrels of BP oil a day. U.S. geothermal energy capacity grew 6 percent in 2009, and there are many more projects on the horizon. |
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