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Climate Change Could Destroy 80% of World’s Rainforest by 2100

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via Gangajal Seeing as how it’s Friday, I figured I’d just go ahead and rain on everyone’s parade a little bit: Climate change and deforestation are going to more or less wipe out tropical rainforests as we know them in about 90 years. Yes, according to a recent study, 80% of rainforests — which hold a full half of the world’s plant and animal species — stand to be destroyed by climate change as soon as 2010. Happy Friday!… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Can President Obama Cut Carbon Emissions Without a Climate Bill?

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Beth Rankin via flickr With Congress still not able to get out of its own way and actually move forward any legislation with the word ‘climate’ in it, what options does President Obama have to make good on his oft-stated commitments to make reductions in greenhouse gas emissions? Leaving aside the EPA mandating carbon emission reductions (remember it’s now officially a pollutant), over at

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Key West, Florida Confirms 24 Cases of Dengue Fever

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Matthew McDermott According to new statistics by the Florida Department of Health (via CNN ) Key West has seen 24 cases of dengue fever through mid-July that have been confirmed to have been contracted locally. That compares to an additional 49 cases in people who had recently travelled to areas where dengue is more prevalent. What’s the green angle? Basically it’s just an illustration of what Florida, as well as 28 other … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Reforestation Captures More Carbon Than Industrial Tree Farms

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A hoop pine monoculture plantation in Australia. Credit: Dr. John Kanowski. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Australian researchers examining environmental restoration projects have found that reforesting damaged rainforests captures carbon more efficiently than softwood industrial monoculture plantations — or big

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Russian President: Heat Waves ‘Wake Up Call’ to Climate Change

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via the Kansas City Star “What’s happening with the planet’s climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us” That’s Dmitri Medvedev, the President of Russia, addressing the record heat waves that are currently devastating the largest nation in the world. Russia has seen crippling heatwaves and record-shattering temperatures all across the nation, and approximately 25 million acres (that’s the size of all of Kentucky) of crops have withered under widespread droughts. A wake-up ca… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Climate Change Threatens to Devastate Burma

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Monks in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. Photo via Disposable Words Sometimes we tend to fixate on the wider scope of threats posed by climate change, like the rising global temperatures, the melting ice in the Arctic, general sea level rise, and so on. But we also need to be looking at the regions and nations that global warming stands to hit the hardest — those places are often the least well equipped to deal with adaption as well. Take Burma, for instance. A nation heavily dependent on agriculture, and extremely vulnerable to flooding and cyclones, a new report reveals … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Exxon Gave $1.5 Million to Climate Denier Groups in 2009

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via the Guardian How does that old saying go? “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, well, I won’t get fooled again.” Something like that (thanks, Dubya). Maybe the revised maxim holds some truth in this case: I certainly won’t believe a word Exxon Mobil’s PR factory churns out, perhaps ever again. The oil giant has manipulated the public into buying its crap (metaphorically speaking, at least) for the last time, as far as I’m concerned. So what am I rambling about? Well, for the second time, Exxon has b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Coral Species in Red Sea Barely Growing, Thanks to Global Warming

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A CT scan showing slow coral growth of a coral species in the Red Sea. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Global warming is wreaking havoc on plant and animal populations around the world: Polar bear habitats are melting, giant trees in Yosemite are thinning , and

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Japanese Subway Restaurant Grows Own Hydroponic Lettuce In Store (Video)

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via InventorSpot There’s a new draw for Japanese commuters looking for a fast meal in the form of a sandwich. The Subway Japan store in the Marunouchi Building, across the street from the always-busy Tokyo Station, has a new enclosed hydroponic garden for growing lettuce. Grown without any agrochemicals, the organic lettuce is the freshest ingredient the store can possibly offer, living out the “Eat Fresh” tag line from the chain. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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June 2010 Was Hottest on Record, NOAA Data Shows – Year-to-Date Has Also Been Warmest

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

images: NOAA Continuing the hottest-month-ever trend… NOAA has released their global temperature data for June 2010 confirming that the month was the warmest on record, judged by combined global and ocean surface temperature. The January-June and April-June 2010 periods were also the hottest observed, since records began in the late nineteenth century. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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