More Gardening Diary, With Photos, Including Scary Bug

by Miep

I really failed last time. Failed you all, with my gardening diary that should have had photos, should have been illustrated thusly.

This time I'll try to do better.

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Thousands of Walruses Mass on Beaches: Arctic Sea Ice Gone

by FishOutofWater

Tens of thousands of walruses have pulled themselves out of the Arctic ocean, beaching in never-seen-before numbers on Alaskan Arctic shores. Since the great Arctic sea ice melt of 2007 walruses, unable to hunt for food from the ice, have congregated on Arctic ocean beaches at summer's end. Walruses may be on the path to extinction.

Walrus researchers with the United States Geological Survey estimate there could be anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 of the mammals currently taking a rest along Alaska's Chukchi coastline. Ferreira, one of about 234 people who call Point Lay home, thinks the numbers may be even higher. Since only about 20 percent of walruses generally come to shore, scientists suspect another 80,000 walruses may be swimming nearby.

photo: USGS

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Nissan's LEAF Advertising Sets An Example

by A Siegel

Last evening, my better 95+% was flipping through the channels and received the rare: stop, go back to that.  What was that?  A Nissan "innovation" advertisement in which the Nissan Leaf played a prominent roll, "if you never needed to buy another gallon of gas ..."

Watching this well-done advertisement made me think of Who Killed The Electric Car? and how GM used black-and-white anti-promoting advertising in relation to the EV-1 (See after the fold for examples.)

While the above ad captured me, within the diary is an ad that truly matters on multiple levels.

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New Coal Ash Video and Facebook App Aim to Educate, Engage

by Bruce Nilles

You've seen our push against toxic coal ash continue over the past few months as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeks public comment on how to regulate coal ash. Our push continues this week with the unveiling of a new coal ash video we produced and a Facebook application. Take a look at the video first:

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Stupid Goes Viral: Deep in the Heart of Climate Zombieland

by RLMiller

They prowl the halls of Congress, moaning for caaasshh.

Their stupid has gone viral.

And if they win, humanity loses.

I'm tracking Climate Zombies: every Republican candidate for House, Senate, and Governor who doubts, denies, or derides the science of climate change.  Like this elected Representative, whose website proudly informs us that

Global warming is simply a chicken-little scheme to use mass media and government propaganda to convince the world that destruction of individual liberties and national sovereignty is necessary to save mankind, and that the unwashed masses would destroy themselves without the enlightened global dictatorship of these frauds.

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Blight at the Museum: The Smithsonian Clouds Climate Science

by Target Global Warming

An exhibit on evolution & climate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History that doesn't even mention manmade climate pollution or the current impacts of global warming?

It's a shocking story ... until you learn who sponsored it.

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BP Catastrophe Liveblog Mothership: 112

by Gulf Watchers

The current ROV DIARY: Daily Kos Gulf Watchers ROV #377 - We Ain't No Ways Tired - BP's Gulf Catastrophe - Yasuragi

The digest of diaries is here

Rules of the Road

• We take volunteers for subsequent diaries in the sub diaries or ROV's as we have playfully coined them.
• Please rec this mothership diary, not the ROVs.
• Please be kind to fellow kossacks who may have limited bandwidth and refrain from posting images or videos.

PLEASE visit Pam LaPier's diary to find out how you can help the Gulf now and in the future. We don't have to be idle! And thanks to Crashing Vor and Pam LaPier for working on this!

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