The blue areas in this image represent changes in elevation of the ice sheet from 2003-2006; the grey areas represent no change in elevation. Image: NASA Goddard Photo and Video / Creative Commons . We’ve all heard that the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting and that should it disappear completely some really dr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Caused By Short-Term Extreme Weather Not Gradual Temperature Rise
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Image credit: wolfpix , used under Creative Commons license. The puzzle of the red bees of Brooklyn may now be solved , but conclusive answers regarding the larger honeybee mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder remain elusive. Nevertheless, in my roundup post about the epic fight to save the bees , I noted that the British Beekeepers … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Beekeepers & Activists Demand EPA Remove Pesticide Linked to Bee Deaths
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Image credit: wolfpix , used under Creative Commons license. The puzzle of the red bees of Brooklyn may now be solved , but conclusive answers regarding the larger honeybee mystery of Colony Collapse Disorder remain elusive. Nevertheless, in my roundup post about the epic fight to save the bees , I noted that the British Beekeepers … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Beekeepers & Activists Demand EPA Remove Pesticide Linked to Bee Deaths
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At the moment, I can’t think of a profession I’m less envious of than that of the American climate scientist. Consider: The climate science community’s years of meticulous study, research, data collection and modeling — not to mention its cautious, much-deliberated-over policy guidelines — are met with what? Certainly not our thanks. Nope, instead, climate scientists… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Climate Scientists vs. Congress (Video)
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Photo credit: / Creative Commons Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel Freedom has been lauded for it’s critique of middle-class American family life. There is another theme, however, that has slowly begun to attract attention: The place sustainability issues in pop culture…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Jonathan Franzen Knows His Birds
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Image credit: BoingBoing I would have loved to send my kids to the Happy Mutant Retreat and Preschool, being built at an undisclosed location and revealed for the first time on BoingBoing. It’s being built of Binishells, which,
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Binishells At The Happy Mutant Retreat and Preschool
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photo: Wakx / Creative Commons Initially estimated at about 20% of total CO2 emissions, then revised downwards to about 15% last year, new research claims that the carbon emissions from deforestation may be just half of that lower estimate. There’s a whole array of good, bad, and muddled news here…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Carbon Emissions From Deforestation Revised Down
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Until this point, despite having the environmental impact and energy consumption of a wealthy nation, China has maintained that it is a developing nation and as such would not submit to any binding emission reductions. Photo: Ricky Qi / Creative Commons . Some truly interesting news coming out of the COP16 climate talks in Cancun:
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China May Submit to Binding Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Target!
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Image credit: Daly3d , used under Creative Commons license. Richard Branson has long argued that business must step up and tackle both climate change and peak oil as a matter of urgency. From proposing waste-based biofuels in aviation, and even towing planes to the runway , through to setting up a carbon war room a… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ships Get Energy Ratings Thanks to Richard Branson
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC A Lesser Evil? It’s time for a round of “good news, bad news”. The good news is that some U.S. utilities with aging coal plants are looking at the costs of installing anti-pollution equipment on them and at the future cost of carbon regulations (the details are uncertain right now, but at some point it’s going to happen), and they’re deciding it makes sense to them shut down instead of sinking more cash into this dirty source of power. The bad news is that they aren’t exactly replacing them with wind, solar, geother… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Some U.S. Utilities Starting to Replace Coal with Natural Gas
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