Rish and shine! There’s a cool green morning out there, waiting to greet you with some oh-so-refreshing news: marine sponges are important, the Dutch want to tax drivers and there could be a rot-free apple in your future.

The Daily Green asks, Is everything you know about being green wrong? Here’s the scoop: it’s not about what car you [...]

Generally, giving struggling species a helping hand is considered a good thing — like saving the vaquita porpoise and anything cute and cuddly (read: koalas). But there’s hot debate over whether helping plants migrate as climate change transforms their habitat is positive or not. Read on for the latest on these cool green topics, and more.

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If you’re anything like me, you can’t get your day started without your daily serving of Cool Green Morning.  (Also, caffeine.  Lots and lots of caffeine.)  Read on to get your fix:

Big snakes are becoming a big problem, says the United States Geological Survey.  The group just issued a report concluding that, should the Burmese [...]

Indigenous Aboriginal ranger Romeo Lane points out an ancient painting of a six-legged goanna lizard to the curious crowd of media and visitors — myself included — that surrounds him.
The painting is just one of thousands that scatter the escarpments of Arnhem Land in the very northern tip of Australia’s vast tropical savanna. This rich cultural [...]

Editor’s Note: Alison Green, senior marine scientist for The Nature Conservancy, recently traveled to Papua New Guinea to see cutting-edge marine work by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Coral Triangle, the most biodiverse marine region on Earth. Also read her first post from Papua New Guinea on sea-surface monitoring and [...]

The island nation of Australia has a long history of newcomers landing on its shores — beginning with the first indigenous people, who arrived over 40,000 years ago.
With them they bought what was probably the first introduced animal to Australia – the dingo. While it is highly probable this canine had a significant impact on [...]

Camels and mosquitoes — what do they have in common? They’re invasive species troublemakers, according to today’s Cool Green Morning green gatherings…and they must be dealt with. (Read that last bit in a horror-show-narrator voice. Yeah, like that — that’s spooky…)

Camels are in numbers Australia’s largest invasive species (probably in size, too), so the Australian [...]

Killer algae sounds pretty bad, but we won’t leave you with depressing news today… instead, take heart in knowing that volunteers gave 4,000 baby loggerhead turtles a helping hand in Australia. From A to Z (or 1 to 5), we’ve got the top Cool Green News links of the morning.

Ah, wouldn’t you like to be [...]

Happy Cinco de Mayo! While you’re drinking margaritas and grooving to mariachi music, don’t forget to read today’s top five green news stories:

New York City has gone a little greener with it’s new fleet of hybrid police cars. Will they be cracking down on environmental fugitives now?
Last week at Dot Earth, Andrew Revkin posed this question: will a green revolution [...]

The Washington Post today has an interesting story (registration required) about how the Earth’s oceans are getting crowded with competition for use — and how more and more ocean experts are pushing ocean zoning as the answer.
But even though such zoning (which experts call by the unlovely name “marine spatial planning”) has high-level support within [...]