Hong Kong Officials to Torch Over 61,000 Pounds of Illegal Ivory Seized From...
Just four months after officials pulverized $10 million worth of ivory from its stockpile, China is once again taking a public stand against poachers and those who smuggle such items. In Hong Kong,...
View ArticlePowerful Images from the Frontline of West Africa’s Devastating Ivory Trade
Read the rest of Powerful Images from the Frontline of West Africa’s Devastating Ivory Trade Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: “World Wildlife Fund” , Africa , CITES , elephant...
View ArticleThe Bizarre Way the Ivanpah Solar Plant Wants to Solve Its Bird-Killing...
What’s the world’s largest solar plant to do when its massive mirrors start frying all of the birds flying by ? If the solar plant is Ivanpah, the apparent solution is to institute a sort of cap and...
View ArticlePoachers Killed 100,000 Elephants in 3 Years Due to Skyrocketing Ivory Demand
Africa is experiencing a huge spike in elephant deaths due rising demand for ivory in China and other Asian nations. A new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
View ArticleScania is testing Sweden’s first wirelessly charged hybrid city bus
A wirelessly charged electric city bus is about to hit the streets of Sweden. Scania is launching a sustainable public transit project in the streets of Södertälje, Sweden in June 2016 to see if the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Director Kathryn Bigelow takes on the illegal ivory trade in Last Days...
Click here to view the embedded video. WARNING: video contains scenes that may disturb some viewers (but, then again, that’s the point!) Hollywood director Kathryn Bigelow has never been one to shy...
View ArticleNational Geographic plants faux ivory tusks to track the illegal ivory trade...
National Geographic is taking an incredible stance in the efforts to stop the illegal ivory trade in Africa by planting and tracking their own faux tusks. Commissioned specially for NatGeo, the fake...
View ArticleCalifornia passes sweeping ban on rhino horns, elephant ivory to protect...
Lawmakers in California passed a bill yesterday outlawing the sale of nearly all ivory and rhinoceros horn products in the state. This move is an attempt to reduce elephant and rhino poaching, which...
View ArticleAamodt / Plumb Architects’ modern Texas prefab was built in just 12 months
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View ArticleWhy is Yahoo Japan selling ivory?
Google, Amazon, eBay, and most other tech giants refuse to allow their users to sell ivory on their platforms. But if you use Yahoo’s Japanese site, you’re welcome to sell all the ivory you want — in...
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