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'Green News Report' - March 26, 2013

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.26.2013 | Green
Read More: Green Jobs, Epa, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Green Energy, Video, Energy Department, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Anti-Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Environmental Health, Climate, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, BRAD BLOG, Water, Tipping Point, Green News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Natural Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Exxonmobil, Montana, Apple, Russia, Olympics, Butterflies, Extreme Weather, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport FACEBOOK: Green News Report The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'...

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Designing a Pollinator-friendly Garden

Sharon Kitchens | Posted 03.30.2013 | Green
Read More: Pollinators, Hummingbirds, Gardening, Honey Bees, Butterflies, Gardening Tips, Home Garden, Gardening Advice, Green News
Sharon Kitchens

Whether your garden is a floral retreat or a source of food, you will need pollinators to ensure long-term productivity.

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Butterfly Time In Tanzania

Eliza Deacon | Posted 12.17.2012 | Travel
Read More: Nomad, Greystoke, Tanzania, Mahale, Nomad Tanzania, Butterfly, Butterflies, Travel News
Eliza Deacon

Mahale Mountains National Park is brimming with butterflies again.

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Jaguar Stalking In The Panama Jungle

Peter Mandel | Posted 12.16.2012 | Travel
Read More: Cartoons, Panama Hats, Bus Tours, Central America, Rainforest, Cutter Ants, Cruises, Flowers, Jaguars, Iguanas, Shore Excursions, Ginger, Caribbean, Butterflies, Panama Canal, Pepto Bismol, Panama, Travel News
Peter Mandel

The jaguar, which must be a dominant male, is padding steadily towards us around a bend on the path.

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Debate Predictions

Michael Kupperman | Posted 12.01.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Mitt Romney, HuffPost Comics, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Butterflies, Presidential Debate, Satire, Comedy, Comedy News
Michael Kupperman

A few predictions for the presidential debate to be held on Wednesday.

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Bullies and "The Diamond in the Dust"

Lisa Novick | Posted 07.11.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Office of Community Beautification, Stewardship, Bullying, Birds, L.a.'s BEST, Habitat, MacArthur Park, City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, Bullies, Inner-City Children, Native Plants, Los Angeles, Amy Nettleton, Home Depot, Theodore Payne Foundation, Sustainable Garden, Joshua Contracting, Urban Parks, Nature, Environmental Education, Education, L.a.'s BEST Afterschool Program, California Native Plant Gardens, Butterflies, The Diamond in the Dust, Natural World, Vons, Habitat Gardens, Santa Barbara Bobcat, Environment, Los Angeles News
Lisa Novick

L.A.'s BEST after-school program is all about enriching the lives of students and their communities, and the ripples of this remarkable program recently spread to a challenging project in MacArthur Park known as "The Diamond in the Dust."

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Saving Butterflies

Misha Lyuve | Posted 08.05.2012 | Arts
Read More: Butterflies, Arts News
Misha Lyuve

Was I a savior? Playing a butterfly god? Or a sentimental fool interfering with the nature and natural course of their lives?

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The Littlest Wildlife

Ken White | Posted 07.31.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: Millipedes, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Bugs, Butterflies, Native Wildlife, Insects, Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA, Wildlife, Invertebrates, San Francisco News
Ken White

Butterflies are beautiful, but so too are these millipedes. Next time you see some little thing crawling, hopping, flying, or scurrying by on what seems like a surplus of legs, say "Gadzooks, it's an invert" instead of "Ewww, it's a bug."

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How To Save Europe's Threatened Butterflies

Posted 03.30.2012 | Green
Read More: European Butterfly Population Dying, European Butterflies, Video, Europe Butterflies Extinct, Butterflies, Butterfly Population Dying, Europe Butterfly Population, Butterfly Population Europe, Animals, European Extinct Butterflies, Green-Earth-Day, Europe Butterflies, Green News

By OurAmazingPlanet Staff: Many of Europe's butterflies are in trouble, according to a new report, but a team of scientists is offering hope for th...

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PHOTOS: Endangered 'Miami Blue' Butterfly Vanishes

AP | By JENNIFER KAY | Posted 04.16.2012 | Miami
Read More: Jim Duquesnel, Threatened Butterfly, Miami Blue Missing, Blue Butterfly Floriada Keys, Animals, Florida Keys News, Miami Blue Butterfly, Video, Missing Butterfly, Bahia Honda, Butterflies, Miami Green, Endangered Species, Endangered Butterfly Vanishes in Florida, Miami, Miami News

BAHIA HONDA KEY, Fla. -- For more than a year, Bahia Honda State Park biologist Jim Duquesnel traversed the nature sanctuary with two hopes. He wanted...

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How Butterfly Wings Could Help Save Lives, Aid Spies

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Searles | Posted 02.03.2012 | Science
Read More: Lingxiao Zheng, Flying Robots, Video, Mavs, Butterfly Robots, Tiras Lin, Butterflies, Johns Hopkins University, Micro Aerial Vehicles, Robots, Science News

What could match the agility and grace of a butterfly? How about a butterfly robot? Engineers at Johns Hopkins University are pointing their high-s...

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Broken Butterflies As You've Never Seen Them Before

Posted 01.24.2012 | Arts
Read More: Anne Ten Donkelaar, Video, Broken Butterflies, Butterfly Art, Butterflies, Lepidopterology, Arts News

The fragility, the electrifying colors, the inimitable patterns ... butterflies are arguably works of art in themselves. But Anne Ten Donkelaar repair...

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WATCH: Otters Chase A Butterfly

Posted 01.09.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Video, Butterflies, Otters Chase Buterfly, Urlesque, Cute Animals, Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing of the Day, Otters, Cute Animal Videos, Comedy News

Otters may not be the first creatures that come to mind when you think of a group chase scene, but that's exactly what happened when this bevy caught ...

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Poem: We Look for Migration

Hannah Stephenson | Posted 01.17.2012 | Arts
Read More: Migration, Butterflies, Autumn, Winter, Fall, Poetry, Poem, The Storialist, Arts News
Hannah Stephenson

For months now, I notice what seem to be leaves floating and flapping in the air over the freeway, above my windshield and car.

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Gifts That Keep On Living

Avital Andrews | Posted 01.16.2012 | Green
Read More: Lichen, Soil, Uncle Milton's, Children, Nightlight, Green, Lamp, Mike Thompson, Animals, Jewelry, Back to the Roots, Larvae, Etsy, Ring, Kids, Insect Lore, Presents, Worms, Insects, Necklace, Gardening, Holidays Canada, Holidays Canada Gift Guide, Ecosphere Pod, Mushrooms, Holidays, Compost, Shopping, Uncle Jim's, Dirt, Habitats, Ladybugs, Ant Farm, Butterflies, Gifts, Green News
Avital Andrews

The problem with most holiday presents is that they're just so... lifeless. Not these.

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Can You Identify This Giant Insect With No Mouth?

David Mizejewski | Posted 09.13.2011 | Green
Read More: Moths, National Wildlife Federation, Animal Oddities, Insects, Animal Planet, Butterflies, Green News
David Mizejewski

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She-Male Butterfly Is Born

Posted 09.11.2011 | Weird News
Read More: Half Male Half Female Butterfly, Hermaphrodite, Natural History Museum, Butterflies, Gynandromorphs, Half Male Butterfly, Half Female Butterfly, Animals in the News, Weird London, London Natural History Museum, Weird News News

Is this Madame Or Monsieur Butterfly? A rare half-female, half-male hatched from its cocoon at London's Natural History Museum, stunning researche...

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The Butterfly Art Of Vladimir Nabokov: A Love Story

Stephen J. Gertz | Posted 08.12.2011 | Arts
Read More: Modern Literature, Art, Lepidoptery, Rare Books, Auctions, Books, Butterflies, Arts News
Stephen J. Gertz

Nabokov disliked ineffective, syrupy sentiment. Consider his butterfly drawings to Vera as mash-notes without the slop.

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PHOTOS: Happy Birthday Damien Hirst!

Posted 08.07.2011 | Arts
Read More: Maia Norman, Installation Art, Spin Paintings, Young British Artists, Sculpture, Painting, Blur, Sharks, Death, Video, Spot Paintings, Butterflies, Sensation, British Art, Mini Cooper, Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, Arts News

Art's reigning enfant terrible, Damien Hirst, was born June 7, 1965 in Bristol, England. The now not-so-young British artist is best known for his mac...

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Pandora Boxx Doesn't Molest Butterflies

David Mizejewski | Posted 07.09.2011 | Green
Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Animal Oddities, Animal Planet, Pandora Boxx, RuPaul's Drag Race, Butterflies, Video, Green News
David Mizejewski

This week's Animal Oddity is all about butterflies and drag queens.

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The Price Of Obsession: How Much Do Black Market Butterflies Go For? (PHOTOS)

Jessica Speart | Posted 06.05.2011 | Books
Read More: Slidepollajax, Black Market Butterflies, Queen Alexandra Butterfly, Yoshi Kojima, Ed Newcomer, Butterflies, Books News
Jessica Speart

Most people view butterflies as beautiful, angelic creatures. Then there are those who regard them as dollar signs with wings.

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The Wonder of Exotic Creatures

Dora Levy Mossanen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Strange, Dora Levy Mossanen, Research, Books, Sex, Behavior, Novel, Butterflies, Entertainment News
Dora Levy Mossanen

For many years now, I continue to look forward every month to my copy of the "National Geographic," turning the pages with the eagerness of an explore...

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Matchmaker in the Know: Finding Romance in Costa Rica

Samantha Daniels | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Four Seasons Papagayo, Professional Matchmaker, Samantha Daniels, Arenal, Romance, Butterflies, Costa Rica, Skytram, The Springs Hotel and Spa, Style News
Samantha Daniels

Have you ever wondered where to find romance in Costa Rica? Here's what I know...

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Butterflies Emerging Earlier Due To Manmade Global Warming

Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Butterflies Cocoons, Butterflies Greenhouse Gases, Butterflies Climate Change, Butterflies, Butterflies Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Common Brown Butterfly, Climate Change, Green News

Butterflies are emerging from their cocoons ten days earlier than 65 years ago because of climate change, experts warn. The finding represents the f...

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Flutterbies in the Peruvian Amazon

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Iquitos, Peru, Morphos Butterflies, World, Butterflies, Travel, South America, Amazon, Rain Forest, Home News
Lea Lane

The Amazon River is a swirling, branching force in the Peruvian jungle, midway from where it first sweeps from a trickle in the Andes and swoops towar...

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