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Fewer than 50 Wild Tigers Left in China, Says Wildlife Conservation Society

by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 02. 9.10
Travel & Nature

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Wild tigers in China are on the Brink of Extinction
Xie Yan, the China Country Program Director for the Wildlife Conservation Society, estimates that fewer than 50 South China Tigers are left in the wild, with about "10 still live in the southwestern province of Yunnan, some 15 in Tibet, and 20 or so in northwestern Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces." Even if take a step back and look at 12 Asian countries and Russia, it is estimated that only about 3,500 tigers are left in the wild, compared to around 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century.

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TreeHugger's Best of Green 2010: Now Calling for Nominations

by Team Treehugger, Worldwide on 02. 9.10
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Do you know of a green person, product, company, event, or concept that deserves to be lauded for the positive environmental change it has enacted? Let us know! In TreeHugger's second annual Best of Green Awards, we're looking to bestow top honors on the people, places, and things that are helping move sustainability into the mainstream.

Last year, we awarded more than 170 prizes across eight general themes. This year, we're asking for your help making some of the selections. Let us know who you think should be nominated for a Best of Green Award. Then we'll ask for your help picking the cream of the crop in dozens of specific categories in our new-this-year Readers' Choice Awards. Click the link below for nomination instructions.

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10 Disgusting, Diseased Trees We Don't Want to Hug (Slideshow)

by Jeff Kart, Bay City, Michigan on 02. 9.10
Travel & Nature

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Credit: Michigan State University.

Trees. They provide shade. They turn carbon dioxide into oxygen. They're the perfect shape for hugging. Unless they're riddled with disease. There are dozens of diseases that sicken or kill trees in the United States. There also are bugs that make trees more prone to disease, like the Emerald Ash Borer, first found in Detroit in 2002.

The bug, native to Asia, likely arrived here in shipping containers. It starts out as larvae that feed on the inner bark of ash trees, and has killed tens of millions of ash in Michigan, other states, and Canada since first being discovered, according to emeraldashborer.info, a clearinghouse site.

The borer is just one of a number of insects and afflictions that make trees less huggable. Climate change is likely to bring news diseases to new areas, according to U.S. Forest Service officials. Get ready to meet some of your new neighbors.

10 Disgusting Diseased Trees We Dont Want to Hug

Ocean Film Fest 2010: Where Do Great White Sharks Go? To The White Shark Cafe! (Video)

by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California on 02. 9.10
Travel & Nature

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Image via Environmental Economics

The White Shark Café is a remote area in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, and it's the winter and spring habitat of great white sharks. It was coined in 2002 by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium who were studying the geolocation information of tagged sharks. While researchers know where the sharks hang out, they don't know why. White Shark Cafe follows researchers off the coast of San Francisco as they tag and track white sharks, hoping to find out more about why they congregate for long periods of time away from their primary food sources along the coastlines. Check out footage from the film, and meet one of the sharks, Omoo, who has his own Facebook page.

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Klättermusen Win Award, For Organic Cotton Bilskirner Jacket

by Warren McLaren, Bundanoon, Australia on 02. 9.10
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Photo: Klättermusen

Klättermusen, the Swedish outdoor gear design firm, just keeps on winning official kudos for its innovative clothing and equipment, having amassed 12 international design awards in the past four years alone.

Their latest creation, the Bilskirner Jacket, recently picked up an ISPO Outdoor Award for Textiles, as well as a 100% ranking in Klättermusen's own internal Eco Index. Although not strictly a waterproof garment, the Bilskirner, available later in 2010 if highly wind and water resistant due to an ultra-dense woven, certified organic cotton, shell fabric. Overlays of 100 % fluorocarbon-free, recyclable polyester fabric increase the weatherproofing. And if returned, at the end of useful life, Klättermusen will offer a refund of 10 Euros.

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Ocean Film Fest 2010: Can Studying Sea Birds Reveal Global Impacts of Climate Change? (Video)

by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California on 02. 9.10
Travel & Nature

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Many researchers feel that sea birds could be the perfect species to study in order to see how climate change is affecting marine life on a large scale. In the film Arctic Cliffhangers, biologist and filmmaker Steve Smith travels along the eastern Canadian Arctic to talk with specialists who are tracking information about several cliff-dwelling species. Because their nesting is coordinated with arctic ice break-ups, and their feeding takes them as far as 500 kilometers out to sea, they have the ability to show us what is happening both on land and far out in the ocean depths.

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Migrating Insects Use Wind to Travel Efficiently at Speeds of up to 60 MPH

by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 02. 8.10
Travel & Nature

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Photo: Wikipedia, CC

What Can We Learn From The Highways in the Sky
Science recently published a study titled "Flight Orientation Behaviors Promote Optimal Migration Trajectories in High-Flying Insects". It's about how migrating insects have evolved to take advantage very efficiently of high speed winds (while you're stuck in traffic, butterflies whiz by at up to 60 MPH, possibly more) to travel hundreds of miles in relatively short periods of time, all that while correcting for crosswinds taking them off-course, and expanding as little energy as possible. This made me wonder, in the spirit of biomimicry, what can we learn from that?

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Sloths More Vulnerable to Predators than Previously Thought

by David DeFranza on 02. 8.10
Travel & Nature

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Image credit: flickrfavorites/Flickr

Researchers monitoring three-toed sloths in the jungles of Panama came upon a shocking discovery after one of their radio-collared animals stopped moving. The sloth had been killed, its organs eaten, and left on the forest floor. Upon closer inspection, researchers determined the sloth to be a victim of a surprising killer: The tiny spectacled owl.

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