Here’s what caught our eye on green blogs this afternoon:
- Better Birding in Sight: Speaking of bird counts, our friends over at 10,000 Birds report on the best gift they received in 2008: cool new digiscoping technology that lets them take outstanding close-up pics. See for yourself.
- Hansen Continues Banging the Drum for Climate Change: NASA climate change scientist James Hansen continues to drive home the point he’s been trying to make for 20 years: climate change is human-caused and must be human-stopped. Check out his recent letter to president-elect Obama. (Hat tip: Bright Green Blog.)
- How Much Do Three Monuments Matter? Can Bush recast his environmental legacy with the creation of three new marine national monuments? The BBC’s Richard Black poses the question.
- A Monument is a Monument: Meanwhile, over at the MPA blog, a new marine reserve is still a new marine reserve – in fact, it will be the world’s largest protected ocean area at 195,280 square miles. And yes, that’s worth celebrating.
- Green Resolve: Enough waffling already — make a green New Year’s resolution and use these cool new Web tools to keep track of your eco-progress. It’s that easy, says Planet Green.
- Iguana Discovery Debunked: The headlines claim this pink iguana is a new species, but The Great Beyond reports that scientists actually discovered it 20 years ago. Sure it’s unique, but it ain’t new.
- Hydrogen from… Sewage? Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a way to produce hydrogen from sewage and dough. (Hat-tip: Clean Technica.)
- Milky Way Diet: Who knew you could weigh the Milky Way? Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, of course. And it turns out that the Milky Way might be heavier than had been previously thought. (Hat-tip: Scientific American.)
(Image: Cardinal. Credit: Dan Irizarry, licensed under Creative Commons.)
Tags: Birds, Climate Change, hydrogen, James Hansen, monument, MPA, Obama, Planet Green
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