1. 23 Apr


    Can cloning redwoods help fight climate change? A recent study revealed Earth is currently warmer than any given point in the past 11,300 years. So what should we do?  One idea: Clone and plant a lot of gigantic trees with a glutton’s appetite for carbon dioxide.  Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is spearheading a movement to plant California’s towering redwood trees in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Germany, and other parts of the United States.  According to NASA previous research has demonstrated that these monstrous organisms are capable of digesting much more carbon than any other tree on the planet. Read more… Photo from: DLILLC/Corbis

    Can cloning redwoods help fight climate change?

    A recent study revealed Earth is currently warmer than any given point in the past 11,300 years. So what should we do? 

    One idea: Clone and plant a lot of gigantic trees with a glutton’s appetite for carbon dioxide.  Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is spearheading a movement to plant California’s towering redwood trees in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Germany, and other parts of the United States. 

    According to NASA previous research has demonstrated that these monstrous organisms are capable of digesting much more carbon than any other tree on the planet.

    Read more…

    Photo from: DLILLC/Corbis

     

  2. 12 Mar


    Call it the Thoughtful Gesture That Dare Not Speak Its Name, or perhaps a case of compassionate fanaticism, but Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in hot water for grasping hands and resting his head on the grieving mother of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Frías at Chavez’s funeral last Friday.

    “Shaking hands with a non-mahram (unrelated by family) woman, under any circumstances, whether young or old, is not allowed. Hugging or expressing emotions is improper for the dignity of the president of a country like the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

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  3. 1 Feb


    Top: Young Jarl Squad vikings shout as they march through the streets of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands of Scotland. 
    PHOTO: REUTERS/David Moir

    Bottom left: A passenger wearing a panda costume shows her ticket to a staff member as she enters the Beijing Railway Station. 
    PHOTO: REUTERS/Kevin Zhao

    Bottom right: Exiled Tibetans shout as they take part in a rally during the Tibetan People’s Solidarity Campaign in New Delhi, India. 
    PHOTO: AP Photo/Altaf Qadri

    The week’s best photojournalism

     

  4. 8 Nov


    AGAIN. CONGRATULATION. On a beach in Odisha, an eastern Indian state, sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik crafts an elaborate if temporary salute to Obama’s win. Is that the Washington, D.C., skyline? We’re guessing yes. Photos of the world reacting to Obama’s win PHOTO: Reuters

    AGAIN. CONGRATULATION.

    On a beach in Odisha, an eastern Indian state, sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik crafts an elaborate if temporary salute to Obama’s win. Is that the Washington, D.C., skyline? We’re guessing yes.

    Photos of the world reacting to Obama’s win

    PHOTO: Reuters

     

  5. 10 Jun



    Bin Laden's real codename was "Cakebread"

    Forget “Geronimo.” U.S. intelligence officials actually called the al Qaeda chief “Cakebread.” (“Now they’ve done it,” says a commenter at TheParadox.com. “All the bakers in the world are going to be offended.”)

    On Thursday, ABC News released a multimedia e-book, Target: Bin Laden — The Death and Life of Public Enemy Number One, that provides the most complete account yet of the raid on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Check out the other new revelations