Currently, human society is consuming natural resources as if there were one-and-a-half Earths, and not just a single blue planet, according to the most recent Living Planet Report released today. If governments and societies continue with ‘business-as…
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May 16
Wind, Solar…Coconuts: Small Island Developing States Commit to Renewable, Sustainable Energy for All
Typically heavily reliant on the cost of high and volatile diesel and fossil fuel imports, small island developing states are also on the front line when it comes to having to cope with climate change. Now they’re realizing there’s a lot in the way of …
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: Coffee and Carbon Trading
For every ton of carbon captured by newly planted trees, a coffee-growing community in the Peruvian Andes receives a carbon credit that can later be sold on the global market to benefit local residents.
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: Imagining Many More Gray Whales
A study of DNA in whale bones seems to indicate that far more whales once existed than previously thought.
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Emissions from deforestation depend on fate of cleared trees
Carbon emissions from deforestation vary greatly depending on whether timber stocks are turned into finished wood products, converted into bioenergy feedstocks, or burned outright, reports a new study published in Nature Climate Change.
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President of Czech Republic to give keynote at Heartland climate summit despite backlash over murderer billboards
Companies are abandoning the Heartland Institute left-and-right following the conservative group’s controversial climate change billboard campaign, but Czech President, Václav Klaus, is sticking with the group, reports the Guardian. Although he critic…
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Green Blog: Severe Weather, Climate and the State of the Evidence
An opinion article by a NASA scientist linking climate change to recent weather events draws some criticism.
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: Lugar, the G.O.P. and Climate Change
The senator says the nation must address greenhouse gas emissions.
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May 11
U.S. undergoes warmest 12 months yet
Americans would not be remiss in asking, “is it getting hot in here?” According to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Climatic Data Center, the last twelve months (from May 2011 through April 2012) were…
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