You can now volunteer to monitor the effects of climate change on plants in your backyard.
Or you can also cut down forests illegally in Sumatra and get eaten by a tiger. Your call.
Find out more about your choices for today — and other weird and interesting green news in (as always) Cool Green Morning:
- Deforestation Blowback? Tigers have gone on a rampage in the last two months on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing nine people (most of whom have been illegal loggers).
- California Dreamin’: There’s doubt now that the Obama administration will let California set its own carbon emissions standards instead of hewing to a nationwide set of targets, reports Environmental Capital.
- Ask Not What Climate Change Can Do For You: The U.S. government is recruiting volunteers to report on the seasonal cycles of local plants — toward a new database on the effects of climate change. (Hat tip: Climate Feedback.)
- You Have to Let Me Know: Obama has also moved to suspend the December Bush administration ruling that federal agencies need not consult with the USFWS on projects that might affect endangered species.
- An Undigestable Truth? An acre of corn grown from ethanol would take 48 years to have the same net greenhouse gas benefits as leaving that land as grasslands, says a new study in the journal Ecological Applications. (Hat tip: Journal Watch Online.)
- Big, Big Green: Wired Science reports on the five biggest green-tech projects of 2009 — including a geothermal field in the Philippines.
(Image: Sumatran tiger in Melbourne Zoo, Australia. Credit: Fir0002/Flagstaffotos via a Gnu Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.)
Tags: California, carbon emissions, Climate Change, Climate Feedback, corn, Ecological Applications, endangered species, Environmental Capital, ethanol, George Bush, geothermal, Grasslands, green tech, greenhouse gas, Indonesia, Journal Watch Online, Obama, Sumatran tiger, tiger, Wired Science
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