Archive for 'Animals'
Cool Green Morning: Thursday, November 5
Things are looking up today — climate talks are reportedly going well, America beats the world in geothermal R&D, and great white sharks now have their very own singles bar. Ain’t life Cool?
How are things in Barcelona (aside from the shocking underperformance of its namesake soccer team this year)? For the climate talks now underway [...]
Posted: November 5th, 2009 under Animals, Climate Change, Energy, Fish, Policy, Science, South America, United States.
Tags: Barcelona climate, Climate Feedback, Copenhagen climate, EcoGeek, EcoWorldly, Ecuador, genome sequencing, geothermal, geothermal R&D, google, great white shark, IUCN Red List, Jeff Tollefson, Journal of Heredity, Journal Watch Online, shark cafe, vertebrate conservation, Washington Post
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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: Monday, November 2
Orangutan-friendly palm oil sales are on the rise! Yah! Vandals are throwing the community bicycles of Paris into the Seine! Boo! Beware emotional whiplash in this roller-coaster edition of Cool Green Morning — just slip the buckle into the clasp and pull tight across your waist…
Can long-range climate forecasting get good enough to help us [...]
Posted: November 2nd, 2009 under Animals, Asia Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Europe, Green Living, United States.
Tags: Climate Change, Climate Feedback, climate forecast, climate scare, Dot Earth, energy sprawl, Environmental Leader, global warming, Jane Lubchenco, New Scientist, NOAA, orangutan, palm oil, Paris bicycle, pets climate change, sustainable palm oil, Times of London, Triple Pundit, Wired Science
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Worry About Air Pollution, Not Just Climate Change
Yes, global warming is a big deal and a big challenge. But sometimes I get so frustrated by conservation and environmental NGO’s for not being able to chew gum and walk at the same time — in other words, for failing to appreciate the real lesson of greenhouse gas emissions.
The real lesson is there is [...]
Posted: October 29th, 2009 under Air Pollution, Animals, Asia Pacific, Birds, China, Climate Change, North America, Protected Areas, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: air pollution, Arctic haze, asthma ozone, Climate Change, Copenhagen, dust storm West, EPA greenhouse gas, global nature, global pollution, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, mercury, mercury baby, mercury healthy, mercury wildlife, National Academy air pollution, National Academy of Sciences, Nature Conservancy air pollution, Nature Conservancy climate, organic pollutant health, ozone, particulate matter, particulate matter health, persistent organic pollutants, Peter Kareiva, pollution agreement, pollution biodiversity
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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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Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, October 27
It’s indeed a bright green morning today, with positive news everywhere: International Climate Day of Action a big success! Smart meters galore! And here’s the big news: a new study shows your personal actions can make a difference in the fight against climate change! Take that, all you climate change pessimists.
Bill McKibben says we need to “stop whining [...]
Posted: October 27th, 2009 under Animals, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Ecosystem Services, Energy, Environmental Science, Green Living, Green Technology, Markets, Media, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: 350.org, Bill McKibben, chytrid fungus, deadly fungus, energy efficiency, frogs, government energy grant, Grist, International Climate Day of Action, Mark Tercek, personal change reduces emissions, Reuters, smart meter
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Haunted (Bat) House!
Late October brings a slight chill to the air and shadows fall early as we dare to tip-toe through the bat trailer. Secreted within a dark corner of The Nature Conservancy’s 12,000-acre Disney Wilderness Preserve in Florida, this trailer is not for the timid.
A rare maternity colony of southeastern big-eared bats has claimed the trailer as home. They [...]
Posted: October 26th, 2009 under Animals, Protected Areas, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: bat cave, bat colony, bat maternity colony, bat trailer, Disney Wilderness Preserve, florida, southeastern big-eared bat
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Cool Green Morning: Friday, October 23
Some days you wake up and find everything you’re doing and believing is wrong — like eating tomatoes or thinking your fellow Americans trust the scientific consensus that man is causing climate change. This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of those days. But tomorrow is Climate Action Day, so…maybe slice a tomato and take [...]
Posted: October 23rd, 2009 under Animals, Climate Change, Climate Science & Research, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Green Living, Policy, United States.
Tags: American believe global warming, Americans believe climate change, biofuel, biofuel carbon emission, biofuel climate change, biofuel science, biofuel Science magazine, carrots carbon emission, clean energy, Climate Action Day, Climate Change, coal climate, Dave Roberts, Environmental Capital, global warming, Grist, Jeffrey Sachs, Pew Climate poll, reptile extinction, Richard Black, Science magazine, Sweden food emissions, The Guardian, The New York Times, tomato carbon emission, Washington Post
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Cool Green Morning; Thursday, October 22
You won’t see it in any headlines today, but let’s just give a quick shout-out to The Nature Conservancy for turning 58 today! Yep, that’s right, today is the day we were incorporated back in 1951. Times certainly have changed – greenhouse gas emissions, iPhone apps and wind farms are the topics du jour – but conservation is still as [...]
Posted: October 22nd, 2009 under Animals, Conservation Issues, Cool Green Morning, Energy, Forests, Green Living, Invasive species, Science, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: bark beetle, city recycling, eating meat impacts, FAO, greenhouse gas emissions, Indiana bat, iPhone app, Mexico beetle infestation, monarch butterflies, San Francisco, vegetarian diet, wind power, World Watch Institute
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Cool Green Morning: Friday, October 16
Phew, that was a furious Blog Action Day ‘09 yesterday — with more than 13,000 blogs posting 27,000 blog posts in 24 hours on climate change in 155 countries to almost 18 million readers. (The Nature Conservancy and Cool Green Science were thrilled to be partners in the effort.) But the sun has risen again [...]
Posted: October 16th, 2009 under Animals, Arctic, Climate Change, Fish, Fresh Water, Green Living, Media, Policy, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: American driving, Arctic ice cap, Arctic ice melt, Arctic melting, Blog Action Day, Bright Green Blog, China Doll turtle, climate change national security, climate change security, EcoWorldly, Environmental Leader, freshwater species, Green Inc., Kate Galbraith, Lindsay Graham climate, Mongabay, The Vine, University of Cambridge ice, Yangtze turtle
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