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1. Run for Your Lives: The Crabs Are Coming
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2. Carbon Cap & Trade To Give Middle Eastern, State-Controlled Oil Companies Market Advantage
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3. Video: Catastrophic Wind Turbine Failure
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4. In Israel: More Cellular Antennas = Less Radiation?
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5. Paper Tickets Are Flying Away For Good
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6. BP = Back [To] Petroleum: Honking Recarbonization On The Way
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7. The Guardian Takes on Cute Overload
Run for Your Lives: The Crabs Are Coming
2008-02-24 18:30
Science & Technology
Image courtesy of denn via flickr Don't look now, but an army of crabs is silently massing up along the borders of the Antarctic Peninsula, waiting for just the auspicious moment to launch a large-scale invasion. Notch another one up for global warming: though once limited by the Antarctic Ocean's frigid waters, rising sea temperatures in the region have made it possible for a wave of new species - crabs and other fast-moving predators - to make a return. ... 
Carbon Cap & Trade To Give Middle Eastern, State-Controlled Oil...
2008-02-24 16:27
Business & Politics
If oil companies like Shell reported the carbon footprint of oil from their operations in Nigeria, the numbers, in comparison to oil from other sources, could be shocking, even to SUV drivers. The relatively high carbon "footprint" of Nigerian oil based fuel is due to the practice of burning off natural gas from the well heads. This also is called "flaring." TreeHugger's Jeremy has posted a stunning overview of this issue: see "Global Gas Flaring Satellite Survey Reveals Oil's Hidden Costs." His graphic is a must-see. The extent to which a prospective global cap and trade... 
Video: Catastrophic Wind Turbine Failure
2008-02-24 14:20
alternative energy
Here's what we don't want to see a wind turbine doing. There's a safety mechanism that usually slows down the blades during high winds. It was obviously defective on this one. Despite how spectacular it is, it's still a cleaner failure than what would happen in most other places that generate power, though. Via ::reddit. See also: ::Enerc... 
In Israel: More Cellular Antennas = Less Radiation?
2008-02-24 14:00
Science & Technology
Controversy over cellular antennas is nothing new in Israel. The battle lines are clear: on one side, the cellular companies and the Environmental Protection Ministry, on the other side, wide segments of the public, who fear possible health risks to themselves and their children and the economic effects of cellular antennas in proximity to their homes (which drastically lower property values). The companies and government authorities are pushing for more and more cellular antennas to be erected on top of buildings and in open spaces, based on the claim that a greater number of antennas will mean less radiation emitted by antennas and cellular phones. ... 
Paper Tickets Are Flying Away For Good
2008-02-24 13:00
Cars & Transportation
In just three months, according to the International Air Transport Association, 100% of tickets issued for air travel will be electronic. This is an impressive figure given that four years ago "just 18 percent of airline tickets issued worldwide were e-tickets when the program started. Today that figure is 93 percent." Like anything related to business, the airlines haven't been making the transition out of the goodness of their hearts. No, there's some money to be saved along the way: Processing a paper ticket costs 10 bucks a pop, according to the association. The cost to process an e-ticket? One dollar....
BP = Back [To] Petroleum: Honking Recarbonization On The Way
2008-02-24 12:28
news
Not sure if you share the feeling; but, Peak Oil seems to be accelerating like a Chinese rocket over Alberta Canada. Principal driver:- major oil companies have been forced to lower their tallies of "global reserves". This loss helps explain why, like giant oil-eating geese, they're, one after the other, setting down in the Alberta Tar Sands - wanting to send the "we've got it" message to the stock analysts. Once you're up to your tail feathers in Tar Sands, it's a lot more difficult to put on the PR 'green face' like BP once did with the "Beyond Petroleum" alias. See Lloyd's recent post for further context: "
The Guardian Takes on Cute Overload
2008-02-24 12:01
Travel & Nature
We commented before that conservationists trying to save the Aye Aye Lemur were facing an uphill struggle due to the creature's unique, some might say downright ugly, looks (although our readers quickly reminded us of the old adage that beauty is in the eye of the beholder). Either way, we suspect that environmentalists working with the crowned verreauxi sifakas, another type of lemur, should not have their work cut out if the above photo is anything to go by. Could there be anything cuter? The picture is part of an 
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