Archive for 'Africa'
Ecotourism: Green Problem or Green Solution?
Ecotourism is often presented as the savior for wildlife and wild places — providing local communities with financial incentives to preserve nature while also reducing poaching and development pressure.
But, lately, others question whether rich Westerners jetting around the world really help much at all: They disturb animals, create demands for new development and only employ [...]
Posted: November 4th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Ecosystem Services, Green Living, North America, Protected Areas, South America, Sustainable Livelihoods.
Tags: air travel, avitourism, Brazil, carbon footprint, Climate Change, ecotourism, ecotourism bad, ecotourism good, Galapagos, green travel, Matt Miller, Namibia, Serengeti herd, tourism, Yellowstone National Park
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, November 3
It’s Election Day in the United States — get out and vote! Then immediately get back on your smartphone and check out the hottest in online green this morning — including what might possibly be the best green name ever…
Mt. Kilimanjaro’s ice cap is disappearing — but is that climate change’s fault? Two research teams [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2009 under Africa, Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Fresh Water, Green Living, Media, Science, Water Conservation.
Tags: Associated Press, carbon emissions, climate change survivor, Gaia Vince, glacier melt, green patriarch, Himalayan glacier, Kilimanjaro ice cap, Kilimanjaro melt, Laos, Nepal cabinet Everest, Orthodox green, Patriarch Bartholomew, The New York Times, Toto, Toto Africa, Treehugger, Washington Post, Yale Environment 360
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Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, October 28
There are more trees out there than previously thought. Carbon emissions may soon be offset with a text message. Tractor-trailers might be going green (really?). It’s a yucky, rainy morning here in Cool Green Science Land, so let’s brighten it up with some nice, happy (for the most part) green news:
Best headline of the morning [...]
Posted: October 28th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Forests, Green Technology, United States.
Tags: Bright Green Blog, carbon emissions, carbon offsets, CleanTechnica, deforestation, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Green Biz, Green Inc., Pacific albatross, scientific american, solar power, trees
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Fish and People on the Edge: Why the Zambezi River Looks OK, But Isn’t
How do you convince people that a river they’ve known their whole lives is not the river it once was…or could be?
That turned out to be my challenge last week, when I traveled to Zambia in support of The Nature Conservancy’s new project to restore the Zambezi River. After several days of meetings with our [...]
Posted: October 14th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Conservation Issues, Ecosystem Services, Fish, Fresh Water, Protected Areas, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, Water Conservation.
Tags: Africa dam, dam management, dams, environmental flows, fishing, floodplain, Jeff Opperman, Lower Zambezi National Park, river health, Zambezi dam, Zambezi fishing, Zambezi overfishing, zambezi river, Zambia
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Planet Change: Speaking Out on Climate Change
Over the past several months, I and many of my colleagues across The Nature Conservancy have been working on Planet Change, a new microsite we are launching today to draw attention to the need for a global solution to climate change that significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions as well as two crucial, yet often overlooked [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2009 under Africa, Climate Change, Media, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: dave connell, deforestation, drought, facebook, food production, global agreements, global leaders, hardships, impacts of climate change, lawmakers, livelihood, microsite, national legislation, Nature Conservancy, samburu tribeswoman, social networks
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, September 17
Mountain gorillas, salmon, killer whales, even cute bunnies… we’re animal-friendly here at Cool Green Morning. From wild creatures to the latest news on the Senate cap-and-trade vote, we’ve got something that will float your boat in today’s round-up of Cool Green News links.
Can better health care for local people help save endangered mountain gorillas? It all comes down [...]
Posted: September 17th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Environmental Science, Fish, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, United States.
Tags: British Columbia salmon, cap-and-trade, Chinook salmon, clean energy, Copenhagen, David Roberts, EPA regulations, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Grist, killer whales, mountain gorilla, nuclear energy, public health, Senate vote, Spain, Uganda, Washington salmon
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Cool Green Morning: Monday, September 14
OK, so it turns out that you can’t get solar power from human hair, as we reported last week. But you can track a gorilla in Uganda online now, OK? Is that good enough for you? Read all this morning’s vetted and triple-fact-checked hot green news, only in Cool Green Morning:
That story about a Nepalese [...]
Posted: September 14th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Asia Pacific, China, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Deserts and Aridlands, Green Living, Green Technology, Media.
Tags: Bright Green Blog, China carbon emission, China greenhouse gas, Climate Change, climate change desert, desertification, Environmental Capital, Geophysical Research Letters, Green Revolution, India carbon emission, India greenhouse gas, Journal Watch Online, Nepal solar human hair, Nicholas Stern, Nicholas Stern China, Norman Borlaug, Sustainablog, Uganda gorilla conservation, Uganda gorilla tracking, Uganda online gorilla
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, August 27
Could lions be extinct in Kenya within 20 years? Will Waxman-Markey help America kick its foreign oil habit? Are we at the Conservancy shamelessly self-promoting our new study on energy sprawl? Find out in this edition of the most essential green links you need today… check them out.
Will the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill help reduce America’s dependence on foreign [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Media, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Africa without wildlife, Bloomberg, cap-and-trade, climate change debate, ClimateWire, dependence on foreign oil, energy sprawl, Environmental Capital, Kenya national parks, Kenya wildlife, loss of ocean life, nature, Richard Conniff, science of climate change, Scopes trial, Treehugger, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, warming ocean, Waxman-Markey
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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, August 25
From the serious (climate change in Africa, declining reef fish in the Caribbean) to the not-so-serious (carbon-friendly ice cream? robotic fish to help detect pollution?), our round-up of Cool Green Morning news is sure to help start your day off on a green foot.
It’s the new robo-cop of the underwater world: scientists have developed a [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2009 under Africa, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Coral Reefs, Energy, Fish, Forests, Green Living, Green Technology, South America, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Caribbean.
Tags: ambient ice cream, Blogfish, Brazil deforestation, Caribbean reef fish, climate change in Africa, drought, Environmental Capital, flood, global carbon emissions from deforestation, heatwave, low-carbon ice cream, National Institute for Space Research, population growth, robofish, sea level rise, underwater pollution
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, August 20
Tiger populations, suburban lawns, clean energy, green universities and a rice plant that will outgrow a flood… read on for today’s Cool Green Morning news round-up.
Suburban lawns and gardens are an uncounted source of water pollution, says new research. Water run-off from these neighborhood fixtures can pick up chemicals and toxins and wash them into rivers and [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2009 under Africa, Animals, Asia Pacific, China, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Fresh Water, Green Living, Green Technology, United States, Water Conservation.
Tags: China, clean energy, dead zones, food production, Green Technology, green universities, Indian tigers, rice production, snorkel rice, suburban lawns, The Vine, United States, water pollution, water run-off
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