photo: praegerr via flickr Burning for some weeks now, the fires in Russia are not only causing Moscow’s daily death rate to double as smog engulfs the city, but are also emitting tons of greenhouse gas emissions as drained peatlands burn. What’s worse,
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Russia’s Peatland Fires May Continue Burning Underground Through Winter
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photo: Ashok Prabhakaran via flickr Now this is really the spirit: The Tribune (Chandigarh, India) reports that Tirumala’s Sri Venkateswara temple , the richest Hindu in the world with some 60,000 people visiting daily, will soon be a plastic-free zone, after the state government of Andhra Pradesh decided to ban the use of plastic products there. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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World’s Richest Hindu Temple Doesn’t Just Ban Plastic Bags, Bans Plastics
It had to happen sooner or later. After experiencing the hottest decade on record (2000-2009), the hottest spring (2010), and the hottest overall Jan-June period, and then a bunch of record-shattering highs around the globe, as well as heatwaves and an unusually powerful monsoon, the media was bound to draw the connection between the extreme weather and the warming planet. It’s a bit of a tricky line to walk, to be sure — no single monsoon or heatwave, no matter how crippling, proves man is causing climate change. But ignoring that our warming climate plays a role in these weather events is dishonest too. Thankfu… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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It’s Hot Enough to Wake the Media: MSM Links Heat, Extreme Flooding to Climate Change
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Image: Sylvar, Flickr After the Environmental Working Group exposed a study claiming that chemical manufacturers overuse the trade secret protections provided in current law, the EPA is taking action. Proposed changes to the Inventory Update Reporting (IUR) rules will require manufacturers to substantiate their trade secret claims up front, with their update report. EPA touts the proposed changes as part of their “
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EPA Proposal Addresses Abuse of Chemical Trade Secret Claims
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Photo from 1st Earth Day via National Geographic The environmental movement, as most people long understood it, was a broad coalition of individuals, advocacy groups, activists, and others who continually work to address conservation issues and to preserve natural resources; to make sure the environment was given due consideration in business and policy discussions. Inspired by oil spills and out-of-control pollution, the environmental movement was the catalyst for creating the Clean Air and Clean Water Ac… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Can ‘Environmentalism’ Ever Really Hope to Tackle Climate Change?
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Lord Monckton confronted by youth climate activists during COP15, photo:
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House of Lords Tells Climate Skeptic Lord Monckton: Stop Pretending You’re One of Us
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photo: @marco via flickr Just as Lester Brown writes about rising temperatures leading to rising food prices , a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details the connection, already evident and likely to become more so, between rising temperatures and declining rice yield… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Asian Rice Yields Drop As Climate Change Warms Nighttime Temperatures
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Photo via Nature in the Ozarks Man, it’s hot out there. How hot is it? Don’t worry, I’m not going to talk about climate change. I’m just trotting out some ideas for a Bob Hope-style comedy routine. And climate change would’ve probably been too edgy for Hope, anyway. So how hot is it? So hot that trees can’t decide what season it is. Okay, needs some work. But it’s true. CNN has this video about how the heat has confuse… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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US Heat Waves Causing Trees to Change Colors (Video)
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Smog from ongoing forest fires, plus temperatures 25°F higher than normal have engulfed Moscow for over a week. Alexandr Solo via flickr via flickr. When the heatwave/forest fire/drought in Russia started a few weeks ago things were bad enough, with Moscow engulfed in smog the likes of which it had never seen and drought stunting crops in the countryside. Well, things have only gotten worse since then–the
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Russian Heatwave Worst in 1000 Years – Moscow’s Daily Death Rate Doubles From Smog & Heat
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+ Turn an empty breakfast-cereal box into a series of ramps for dropping and rolling marbles . All you need is some shears and tape! + A wicker basket gathering dust can be repurposed into a pretty bird feeder for hanging on a tree in your backyard. + Capture Mother Nature’s beauty through the shifting seasons by crafting a handmade nature book with … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Best of Inhabitots: Top 7 Green DIY Projects For Kids
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