Thanks to the Conservancy’s work restoring gopher frogs in Georgia, Kermit’s not the only amphibian on PBS anymore.

HUGE suspenseful questions asked (and perhaps answered) in today’s Coolness — about China, eco-TVs, melting permafrost and biospheres in North Korea. Just don’t ask us how plankton soak up CO2…or why they aren’t doing as much as anyone thought…

Can the United States reach a climate deal with China? The New York Times reports that, while [...]

Sascha Müller-Kraenner, The Nature Conservancy’s senior policy advisor in Europe, always has a fresh perspective on conservation issues from across the pond. Below he discusses why it’s so important for the United States to be fully engaged in international climate change discussions and how Europeans view the latest developments on climate change legislation.
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Newborn animals always elicit a certain “awwww” feeling.
But the bison calves recently born at The Nature Conservancy’s Broken Kettle Grasslands Preserve in Iowa aren’t just cute — they mark a turning point in the effort to reintroduce “pure” bison to native prairie in Iowa.
Bison used to roam American prairies in numbers so great you’d think they [...]

Would you change your commute if you had a personal “CO2 pedometer” that tracked your daily carbon footprint? Do you think white-washing rooftops will help fight global warming? Tell us what you think… after you finish reading your daily dose of cool green news, of course.

Who’s looking out for the California gnatcatcher? No one, says the U.S. GAO. A new [...]

In John Crowley’s science fiction novel Beasts, humans decide they’ve inflicted enough damage on the Earth, and utilize their technology to construct a giant tower removed from the rest of the world.
They achieve self sufficiency in food and energy production, and thus no longer interact or inflict damage on the rest of the world. Of [...]

Why might poker be bad for the environment? What were the 10 top species discovered last year? How could there possibly be another reason to check your Facebook page? Cool Green Morning — your daily roundup of hot online greeness — reveals all…

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg at Sustainablog reviews the new Facebook game Earthkeepers Hero: Mission Impossible [...]

Editor’s note: Alison Green, senior marine biologist at The Nature Conservancy, recently helped conduct an assessment of a proposed marine reserve in Mozambique. In this series of blog posts, she explains why the area is so special and what the Conservancy is doing to help preserve the marine resources here and the livelihoods that depend on them. [...]

What better way to come back from a long weekend than with a news round-up ready-and-waiting for you? Take your time easing into the work week, knowing that at least you already have the day’s most important enviro news items at your fingertips… 

Ecuador is trying to choose the high road with a carbon-credit plan that allows them to [...]

That’s not a typo. According to a new report by Nature Conservancy scientists and partners, shellfish reefs worldwide have deteriorated over the last century to the verge of disappearance.
I’m a vegetarian, but this is bad news for me — and all of us. Why? Because shellfish reefs are critical in many places for more than [...]