Saturday, August 31, 2013

Worlds Largest Bicycle Parking Facility at Trainstation Utrecht Central, The Netherlands

Utrecht Central Station will get the largest bicycle parking facility in the World; it will house some 12.500 bicycles. The first part will be ready in 2016, in 2018 the entire parking facility and the square on top of it will be ready.

Greenland's Mega Canyon: Another 'Grand Canyon'

Hidden for all of human history, a 460 mile long canyon has been discovered below Greenland's ice sheet. Using radar data from NASA's Operation IceBridge and other airborne campaigns, scientists led by a team from the University of Bristol found the canyon runs from near the center of the island northward to the fjord of the Petermann Glacier.

A large portion of the data was collected by IceBridge from 2009 through 2012. One of the mission's scientific instruments, the Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder, operated by the Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at the University of Kansas, can see through vast layers of ice to measure its thickness and the shape of bedrock below.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Liquid Ivory: How Palm Oil is Killing Indonesia's Elephants

The Ecologist Film Unit travels to Indonesia to investigate the impact palm cultivation - and the resulting deforestation - is having on the Sumatran elephant, the world's most critically endangered elephant.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Thai Oil Spill Hits Beach at Koh Samet Island

Crude oil that leaked from a pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand over the weekend has reached a tourist resort.




PTT ... and at least 300 navy soldiers are cleaning up the damage caused by an oil slickthat has pollutedAo Phrao beach on Samet island. On Monday the oil entered the bayand washed up on the beach at Ao Phrao, on the western part of the island, on Sunday night. The oil slickhas affected the entirebeach of the small bay. Read more at Bangkok Post

PTT Global Chemical Plc (PTTGC) apologised on Monday for the oil spill from its pipeline that has damaged a beach on Koh Samet, one of the country's most popular tourist destinations, and promised to complete the clean up and restoration by Thursday. Read more at Bangkok Post

Monday, July 29, 2013

World Tiger Day: Tiger Island - A BBC Natural World Documenrary

'Tiger Island' is a BBC Natural World documentary following Panthera's CEO and tiger expert, Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, as he investigates a controversial project to rehabilitate and release conflict tigers in Sumatra. Travel with Dr. Rabinowitz as he visits a 'sanctuary' for conflict tigers in southern Sumatra and learn what he discovers while monitoring tigers released back into the wild. Find out if this new and radical approach to tiger conservation could put tigers and local villagers in harm's way or be a tool used to help save the Critically Endangered Sumatran tiger from extinction.

Global Tiger Day: The Wild American Tiger by National Geographic

With more tigers living in captivity in the United States than in the wild, what effect is the relationship between human and beast having on the wild tiger crisis?

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