South Pole Highway
Drive Will Show Viability of Alternative Fuels, Group Says
by Ray Lilly, ENN
A U.S. team plans to drive from the
Antarctic coast to the South Pole later this year to demonstrate the
viability of alternative energy sources to replace fossil fuels, a
spokesman said Monday.
The 1,000 mile (1,600 kilometer)
journey to the South Pole will take 10 days using alternative fuel
vehicles driven along a U.S.-developed ice highway, said Nick
Baggarly, executive director of the "Zero South" expedition.
The expedition would "demonstrate the
viability of these energy alternatives," Baggarly said, without
specifying what types of alternative energy sources the group plans
to use.
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Ocean Debris: Habitat
for Some, Havoc for Environment, Experts Say
by
John Roach, National Geographic News
Look
under a chunk of plastic afloat in the ocean and you're likely to
spot a fish or two. But look inside the stomach of a dead albatross
or sea turtle and you're likely to find chunks of plastic.
So goes the paradoxical legacy of plastic debris in the ocean.
Carl
Safina is a marine conservationist who has traveled the world's
oceans and documented the effects of plastic on marine life...
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Greening the Hotel Industry One
Eco-Property at a Time
by Heleigh
Bostwick, ENN
With
eco-tourism on the rise, eco-hotels are fast becoming the darling of
the travel and hospitality industry. These days however, staying at
an eco-hotel doesn't necessarily mean vacationing in a tree house in
the Costa Rican jungle, although that is definitely an option.
The
majority of eco-hotels fall into one of several categories; hotels
and resorts that conserve ecologically significant habitats, "green"
hotels that reduce, recycle, minimize waste, and conserve water,
sustainable hotels that harvest food from gardens on the hotel
property or obtain part or all of their power from renewable energy,
hotels that encourage community involvement such as guests
participating in trail clearing, and hotels that offer some form of
environmental education to their guests...
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Video: Filming the Arctic, From Above and
Below
National Geographic
Hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle, filmmakers struggle
against a brutal and unpredictable climate to capture walruses,
beluga whales, seabirds, and other animals that stream into feeding
grounds each summer.
Watch as shattering sea ice nearly strands the crew, ghostly white
whales glide through a "peaceful, weightless world," and ultralight
planes soar over vertigo-inducing icebergs.
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