Other News Feeds TreeHugger - Top Green Stories News Feeds TreeHugger TreeHugger is a fast-growing web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. Our influential audience stops by frequently to check out the latest news, reviews and recommendations for modern yet green products and services. Consumers also rely on the directory to help facilitate their buying processes. TreeHugger is the most effective way for them to find well designed products that are also ecologically sensitive. Scientists Drill into Ancient Coral Reefs To Find Secrets About Surviving Rising Seas Photo Credit: ECORD/IODP via Live Science In an instance where drilling into the Great Barrier Reef is a good thing, scientists are pulling core samples of ancient coral to unravel how sea level changes have impacted corals in the past, and perhaps help predict what can happen to them in the future as they struggle with relatively rapid shifts in their marine environments. The corals they're studying lived about 20,000 years ago when the planet was about 9 degrees F cooler than present temperatures, and their grow...Read the full story on TreeHugger Cool Green Bus Terminal Coming to San Francisco An artist's conception of the green new Transbay Terminal being built in San Francisco. Image via Inhabitat. One of my favorite things to do in Turkey is go down to the main otogar (bus station), ask around for buses to interesting destinations, and hop on. The station itself is no great shakes architecturally or anything, but I love the hustle and bustle and the feeling that a whole country's worth of options is open to me. That sense of possibility and movement draws me to trans...Read the full story on TreeHugger Extinct Fox Turns Up Again in California Photo via Keith Slausen / US Forest Service The Sierra Nevada red fox was thought to be extinct, until three weeks ago anyway. U.S. Forest Service biologists captured photos of the fox with a camera set up on a trail, and took DNA samples of saliva pulled from a bait bag the fox bit into to experts at the University of California, Davis. And yep, we can put one extinct species back on the books, at least for now. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger 'Dancing Shrimp' Off The Menu At Sacramento Sushi Restaurant photo via flickr Ever eaten live shrimp? Me neither, and I don't want to. But while some consider the dish a delicacy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals consider it cruel. That's why PETA targeted a Sacramento restaurant that was serving "dancing shrimp," which is shrimp with lemon juice squezzed onto their exposed flesh, creating pain....Read the full story on TreeHugger Mystical Mt. Fuji is Tourist-Polluted Image from oldphotosjapan : Mount Fuji in Clear Weather by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Mt. Fuji in Japan is one of the most famous and iconic mountains in the world; it has been the subject of endless photographs, poems and paintings over the centuries. It is also a spiritual symbol, sacred in the Shinto religion. But it has become a huge site of tourism, growing in popularity yearly. There were 200,000 visitors a decade ago and 430,000 in 2008. With that growth comes garbage, noise, tacky tourist shops, more garbage and a lack of toilet facilities....Read the full story on TreeHugger Obese Orangutan Finds a Healthier New Home Photo via The Telegraph Oshine the orangutan has a bit of a weight problem. After being kept as a pet for 13 years, lazing around and eating junk-food, the portly primate ballooned up to 220 pounds - but she should soon be on the right track to a hea...Read the full story on TreeHugger The 6 Crucial Errors that Led to the Deepwater Horizon Explosion Photo via NY Daily News It's beyond well-known by now that crucial mistakes and shoddy cost-cutting measures were instrumental in bringing about the tragedy at the Deepwater Horizon drill site. But it's still rather alarming to look at them back-to-back-to-back -- New Orleans Times...Read the full story on TreeHugger If Obama Had Chosen Energy Over Health Care ... Photo via MSNBC's Cosmic Blog It's an interesting question for followers of both politics and climate issues: How would things have turned out if Obama had thrown his weight behind clean energy legislation instead of health care reform? Would we now be looking at a freshly passed law designed to map out the future of the American energy economy and to stimulate job growth in sustainable sectors -- while curbing greenhouse gas pollution and ramping up renewables? Would Democrats have benefited from focusing on the economy i...Read the full story on TreeHugger Seasonal Shifts Could Be Confusing Bees Image credit: ruurmo/Flickr Everything from fungus to parasites, pesticides to disease, pollution to habitat loss, has been blamed for the startling—often sudden—declines in bee populations worldwide...Read the full story on TreeHugger Europe's Largest Onshore Wind Farm to Expand to 539 Megawatts Photo: Flickr, CC Adding 3MW Turbines Europe's largest onshore wind farm, which is located in East Renfrewshire in Scotland, is about to get even bigger. ScottishPower Renewables is planning to add 75 turbines to the existing 140, increasing the capacity of the wind farm from the current 322 megawatts to 539 megawatts. Read on for more details....Read the full story on TreeHugger