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For those folks who love the taste of seafood but hate all the trouble of fishing it from the ocean, one recently unveiled invention in China has a cruelly-convenient solution — a vending machine that dispenses crabs, guaranteed to be alive or your next meal is free! That’s right, for around $1.50 you can now [...]

Imogen Heap at Poptech 2010. Photo: Kris Krug, Creative Commons, Flickr. Imogen Heap, the British singer perhaps most famous for her ‘the OC’-approved song Hide & Seek, made a surprise appearance at Poptech to give a sneak peak of her latest project: A crowd-sourced nature documentary that she’s scoring for an orchestra. Called ‘Love the [...]

Screengrab via Vic’s Crappy Videos Time for an afternoon break from the grind. Check out these two absolutely hilarious videos from a couple guys who think nature is pretty neat — so neat, that we should call it “neature”!! The film makers are sending out an important message about the wildlife all around us, and [...]

This morning, Mike Adams from Naturalnews.com realeased his latest music video – “Just Say No To GMO!” Mike’s latest song seeks to expose the lies within the GMO industry, distinctively talking about Monsanto and the effects of genetically modified corn. Check it out below. This text will be replaced by the player var so=new SWFObject(‘http://naturalnews.tv/player-licensed.swf’,’mpl’,’480′,’360′,’9′);so.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,’always’);so.addParam(‘allowfullscreen’,’true’);so.addParam(‘flashvars’,’config=http://naturalnews.tv/v-flashvars.asp?v=B459FF2B150FDF4651302A60993D9CF3′);so.write(‘playerB459FF2B150FDF4651302A60993D9CF3′); [...]

Photo: Screen capture from video. Sometimes it takes a heartbreaking video to fully grasp the scale to which some human activities are jeopardizing habitats of crucial species around the world. When the World Wildlife Fund installed a camera on the grounds of a forest in Indonesia’s Riau Province, they were hoping to better understand the [...]

Particularly potent video around the 1:00 mark… If you need a really graphic illustration of what happens when storm water overwhelms a city’s aging sewa… Read the full story on TreeHugger Credits to:TreeHugger

AP Photo via Climate Progress A couple days ago, I ran a video post explaining how climate change was killing walruses: the ice floes that the animals are used to resting on during hunting expeditions and while rearing their young are melting as ocean temps warm. Walrus calves that can’t make the trip back to [...]

OK, so if you’re a regular TreeHugger reader and/or a member of Slow Food, have read any of Michael Pollan’s recent writing there’s nothing in 11 year old Birke Baehr’s five minute talk at TEDx Next Generation Asheville on the gigantic sticky, spiky, … Read the full story on TreeHugger Credits to:TreeHugger

Photo via EarthEcho International Philippe Cousteau, the renowned oceans advocate, has been doing some of the best reporting on the Gulf out there (some of it has been published here on TreeHugger). I caught up to him at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative, where he’d just launched a student-citizen journalism program called STREAM — which [...]

I’m proud to announce that Natural News has selected me to be one of their “health experts.” If you haven’t seen NaturalNews.tv, I’d recommend for you to check it out. They have alot of health professionals and experts all sharing their videos. Browse around the site. It’s a great place to discover the latest information [...]