Late this afternoon, Congressmen Henry Waxman and Ed Markey released a discussion draft for energy and climate change legislation they plan on moving through the House of Representatives.
This is one of many steps the House, Senate and Obama Administration will need to take to craft comprehensive legislation on climate change.
My colleague, Eric Haxthausen, director of [...]

Visit an Andean village, and you have a decent chance of seeing a few cuy — also known as guinea pigs — running around homes.
These aren’t pets. If you stick around that village, you may very well be served one for dinner.
Cuy is a dish served in many parts of the Andes on special occasions [...]

The Nature Conservancy is selling 92,000 acres of protected forestland in the Adirondacks to Danish timber investors. 
Sound a little strange?
The catch is that the land will continue to be used for sustainable forestry and recreation like snowmobiling, hiking, hunting and fishing. It will also be managed under a binding conservation easement that protects river corridors, wetlands and other [...]

We know there’s a lot of news out there to stay on top of every day. That’s why we’ve done the work for you — and condensed it into the top five green news stories of the day:

Feel the Squeeze: Check out this video of CNN reporter John Zarrrella learning how to catch a Burmese [...]

Finding a new population of any species is good news in conservation. But finding a hitherto undiscovered population of orangutans (see one in the video above) is really exciting. And we did just that.
In December 2008, we found a significant population of Bornean orangutans. This is some welcome news on a generally gloomy conservation agenda.
Orangutans [...]

It’s Up-In-The-Air Day at Cool Green Morning — with unsolved questions such as: Is airborne dust the cause of global warming? Are energy-efficient light bulbs backfiring? And doesn’t anyone in the U.S. Defense Department remember the Hindenburg? All the rising green news follows:

More Than Just Hot Air: The Pentagon will spend $400 million to develop [...]

In honor of the groundbreaking new report, The State of the Birds, this week has been unofficially dubbed “Bird Week” on Cool Green Science. (See our migratory bird expert Dave Mehlman’s posts on the report.)
My contribution to “Bird Week” has to do with flocks — but not flocks of birds — flocks of data and flocks of people.
It [...]

Spring has finally arrived here in Arlington, Virginia…and a middle-aged blogger’s thoughts are turning toward golf. Eco-crime! you scream. Yes, it seems truly green golf has a difficult course ahead of it (although I might sneak out this weekend anyway)…check out that and the other green links you must click on this morning:

Go for the [...]

I’ve been creating (and embellishing) fish stories ever since my grandfather took me to the North Carolina mountains to teach me the alchemy that transformed the grasshoppers we caught together into rainbows of flipping shining scales in a five-year-old boy’s hands.
Subsequent initiations by father and great-grandfather led to a life of piscatorial pursuits, more fishing [...]

I cannot conclude my blogs on the U.S. State of the Birds Report without mentioning Hawaii and its birds. The native bird species of Hawaii are by far in the worst shape of any group of birds in the United States.
Here’s why the severe decline in Hawaii’s birds should be an issue of national concern:

One-third [...]