How could global warming change our world? See this slideshow of 7 terrifying global warming pics @ Treehuger. -Hang-

So, I’ve rounded up 7 of the most terrifying photographic depictions of global warming around—because it could do us all a little good to get just a little nervous from time to time. Just to inspire us to work that much harder to avoid a potentially disastrous fate. After all, climate change really is some scary stuff.

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Prometheus (aka WPN-114) was the nickname given to the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) tree approximately 5,000 years old which formerly grew at tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, USA.

A group of students cutted it down to research… how old it is. The full story after the click.

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Treehuger has an interesting slideshow on 14 strange and fabulous trees from around the world. Some are really amazing. -Hang-

Trees can grow over some pretty crazy objects and still go on to thrive, taking in the item as if it’s another branch. This bicycle didn’t stand a chance.

Click on the image to see more.

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Two articles about a gigantic (continent-size) plastic garbage patch floating in the Pacific Ocean, click to start reading. Link 1, link 2.

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