July, 2009
Nature Photo of the Week: Great Sand Dunes National Park
Written by Robert Lalasz | July 31st, 2009
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I admit it: I could spend all day staring this image shot by tguttilla of a morning at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. Check out all The Nature Conservancy’s featured daily nature images, submitted to the Conservancy’s Flickr group by people like you — at my.nature.org. And don’t forget to enter your best [...]
Traditional Fire Practices: Making a Difference in Mexico
Written by Wendy Fulks |
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In 1999, a year after widespread, drought-driven fires caused extensive damage to the country’s forests, the Mexican government began looking for ways to improve and strengthen its national fire program. But, like many governments, they assumed that all burning was bad and focused their efforts on ways to prevent people living in rural areas from [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, July 31
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Your green horoscope for today: Every piece of bad news has a piece of good news, too. (Kind of like when a door closes, a window opens — except that your apartment is probably on the 22nd floor.) Learn more in these five glass-half-empty, glass-half-full green links, fresh from Al Gore’s brainchild: A new global [...]
From Forest to Toilet Paper… and Back Again
Written by Cara Goodman | July 30th, 2009
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When nature calls, how do you respond? Just 2 percent of us in the United States use 100 percent recycled toilet paper at home, according to a recent New York Times article on the “Charmin effect”. Yet somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 percent of people recycle other products regularly. We buy local when possible, [...]
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, July 30
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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The image above shows ice sheets off the coast of Alaska in 2006 (left) and 2007 (right). What’s different about these two photos? (Hint: it’s related to climate change.) Read on for all the Cool Green News of the day. Why didn’t we know about this before? Newly declassified images from U.S. spy satellites show ice melt [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, July 29
Written by Robert Lalasz | July 29th, 2009
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Wasn’t it Michael Caine in the Austin Powers’ movie “Goldmember” who said there are two kinds of people he couldn’t stand — “those who are intolerant of other cultures, and the Dutch”? We don’t take stands on whole peoples here at Cool Green Science — but the Dutch are doing some pretty funky things with [...]
Climate Change & National Security: The U.S. Military Gets It
Written by Bob Barnes | July 28th, 2009
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently held a hearing on climate and energy legislation focusing on an aspect of global warming that so far has received surprisingly little public attention: national security. While most people associate global warming with droughts, rising sea levels, declining food production, species extinction and habitat destruction, fewer connect these impacts [...]
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, July 28
Written by Darci Palmquist |
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A methane mystery in Los Angeles, tiger discoveries in Nepal, and a question of roads… enjoy today’s edition of Cool Green Morning. If there’s one thing worse than being a CO2 emitter, it’s being a methane emitter. But that’s just what the city of Los Angeles has been charged with. Recent research shows the City [...]
Looking for the Sky Blue Little Queen of the Forest
Written by Dave Mehlman | July 27th, 2009
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One of the best parts of my job as director of The Nature Conservancy’s migratory bird program is reading the reports that come in from the research we sponsor — especially on birds about whose wintering habits we previously knew little. I recently received the final report of the field research being conducted by my [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, July 27
Written by Robert Lalasz |
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Justin Timberlake, eco-golfer? Fore sure! That and more in this morning’s Goodness: Having gotten Nike to capitulate, Greenpeace UK continues its campaign to stop shoe companies from using leather from cattle grazed on former Amazon rainforest lands, reports Environmental Leader. Reebok, Adidas, Timberland and Clarks are among the targets. What are the Seven Wonders of [...]
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