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Over 12,000 marine animals could be without a home due to Hurricane Sandy.

The New York Aquarium is Coney Island is without full power like much of the city and they are in dire straits.

The aquarium is flooded and the animals may need to be evacuated while workers work on restoring filtration and life support systems.

Tags: electricity, evacuation, hurricane, hurricane sandy, marine life, new york, new york aquarium, power, sad, sea creatures

When it comes to raw power, nothing in the history of time matches the bite force of the T.rex.

Researchers in the UK scanned in a real T. rex head and made a 3-D model.

One of the researchers explained:

Tags: amazing, bite, history, power, research, researchers, study, t rex, terrifying, tyrannosaurus rex, uk

World Bank has launched a new partnership to try and raise an astounding $1.5 BILLION for the world's oceans.

They aim to double marine protected areas and rebuild fish stocks.

The world's oceans are overfished, heavily polluted and increasingly warming.

None of these are good for the earth, climate change or any of earth's inhabitants. (That means people too).

World Bank's president said

Tags: climate change, danger, earth, fish, health, marine, ocean, oceans, power, protect, save

WooHoo!! We LOVE the Earth!!

Simulating the way leaves harness the energy of the sun, scientists have a discovered a way to use "artificial leaf technology" to possibly powers ships and planes…. and even cars!!!

According to Professor Richard Cogdell:

What you need is to be able to lock that energy up in some sort of storage fluid that’s available on demand, and that’s what fuel is. To really sustain our way of life after the oil runs out we have to be able to make, renewably and sustainably, dense portable fuels for transport, especially for aeroplanes and ships. We’re looking at photosynthesis to see whether we can learn to copy it in a more robust and efficient way. What we’ve realised in just the last couple of months is that we should be able to use electricity to power these reactions. I would be very disappointed if this wasn’t working in the real world in 30 years time.

Uhm, ya!!

We'd be totes disappointed too!!

Oil is soooo last century!! Time to be smart about the way we use our energy!!!

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: artificial leaf technology, cars, energy, fuel, oil, planes, power, richard cogdel, ships, sun

Guy Ritchie wants to make his estate completely self-sufficient, but he has just run into a snag — his plan to erect 200 solar power panels has some environmentalists upset, despite their purpose.

The snag is that

Tags: environment, grass, guy ritchie, law, power, protect, protection, solar power, wild, wildlife

WOW!

A crazzyass pair of goldfish lasted an incredible 134 days in earthquake-hit New Zealand without any pet food or electricity to power their tank filter.

The two fish, named Shaggy and Daphne survived in their 26-gallon tank in the reception area of Quantum Chartered Accountants in Christchurch, where the earthquake struck.

When the people that work in the office were Daphne and Shaggy live earlier this month, they were shocked to find the two fish alive and well.

Was it the strong will and fighting sprit that kept them alive?? Nope — it was poop.

Some experts say bacteria in the tank may have kept the water clean enough to sustain life.

The fish have no memory od the events.

[imgae via fellowshipofminds]

Tags: fish, goldfish, incredible, memory, new zealand, pet, poop, power, survived

Poor Things!

A large, rogue red kangaroo has attacked a 94-year-old woman in her garden in Queensland, Australia.

Police had to use pepper spray to overpower an aggressive kangaroo!

The elderly woman told reporters she thought she was going to die as the "red roo," which can jump more than nine meters in one leap, knocked her to the ground and kicked her several times.

Big Reds are one of Australia's largest kangaroo species and males can weigh more than 80kg and stand more than 4'9” tall.

Tags: australia, pepper spray, power, sad, species, widget, woman