Maple Seeds and Flight

ScienceDaily (June 13, 2009) — The twirling seeds of maple trees spin like miniature helicopters as they fall to the ground. Because the seeds descend slowly as they swirl, they can be carried aloft by the wind and dispersed over great distances. Just how the seeds manage to fall so slowly, however, has mystified scientists.

Saving Butterflies

Establishing Butterfly waystations... see video

Pesticides from Bayer continue to be implicated in colony collapse disorder

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Honey Bee Losses 30 percent 2008-2009

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Wild Bill Secrest Loves His Save The Bees Hat

Forest Wild Flowers on Blue View Lane

Dieing Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder Continues As A Major Problem

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Alaska Is Expanding Like A Dented Pillow Relieved of Stress

As the glaciers retreat, melt and vanish, the land in Alaska rises, and locals are wondering where the water went. Forget those stories of swamped ports. In Juneau, as in few other areas of our planet, the result of global warming is drying streams and land rising from the sea as much as three inches a year. Buy that swampland today, in the future it may be the tenth hole of your new golf course.

Heat pump energy storage System- Very Cool

See this article on a low tech-high tech energy storage system developed by a group of English engineers. The system uses silos and gravel and an advanced heat pump as a way to store energy generated from wind, solar, a gravel battery ...

The Renewable Energy Map

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