Visualizing Atlantic overfishing:

Holy shit.

Vuvuzelas for BP:

BP is not feeling the pain they are causing in the Gulf. BP is spending millions on PR. In order to put a bit of public pressure on them, we plan to buy 100 vuvuzelas and hire 100 vuvuzela players off Craigslist to play in front of BP’s International Headquarters in London for an entire work day. Ideally, the players will keep coming back every day until they fix the gusher.

Didn’t take long to reach their funding goal.

Wow, the new Guatemala City sinkhole is incredible.

Al Gore is unconvinced by the “global warming can’t be true because it snowed” argument.

Sorry to be a downer, but I hate to be depressed all by myself: An Ominous Warning on the Effects of Ocean Acidification.

Happy to see I’m not the only one who hates the but look at all the snow “argument” against climate change.

Fer fuck’s sake: The Ungreening Of America.

Jon Udell puts his Kill-a-Watt and Wolfram|Alpha to good use, to express his electricity usage in more relatable terms.

Monumentally sad and depressing. Chris Jordan photographs dead albatross chicks, killed because their parents fed them our plastic garbage:

These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

For example:

We suck. (via josh spear)

The Big Picture has a bunch of cool before/during Earth Hour photos. Starting with the second photo, you can click the picture and watch the lights fade off.

An immortal jellyfish is spreading through the oceans. Sounds like a mixed blessing. On the one hand, eternal youth. On the other hand, you’re a jellyfish forever.

Independent.co.uk, The World's Rubbish Dump:

A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.

Fortune Small Business is running a feature, "The Next Little Thing" (big ideas from small businesses). They're all pretty cool, but the bold ones in particular grabbed me:

• Six-foot roses
• An ATM for books
• Removable tattoos
• Electricity from wave power
• Cow parts for medical devices
• Street-smart filters for rainwater
• Drug plans go generic
• Lunch-hour liposuction
• Your new bankers: Hedge funds
• Tap the tide

Killing Animals for Profit by Carl Hiaasen:

If your kids asked to bury a small animal alive, you'd be horrified. You'd tell them that's an awful thing and that they ought to be ashamed.

Most children wouldn't dream of doing it, of course, because they know what's wrong and what's right. Unfortunately, they don't make the rules.

Tough to watch.