Category: Climate Science & Research
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, April 18
Written by Nicole Levins | April 18th, 2012
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Get your green news right here:
- A new report says electric vehicles are good for the environment and also for your wallet. (CleanTechnica)
- Vote for your favorite of these clever and hilarious Earth Day haikus. (Grist)
- Bad news: deadly “citrus greening” has been found in California. (Green)
- A new poll reveals that many Americans are finally connecting the dots between climate change and wacky weather. (New York Times)
- How green/not green is “the cloud”? (Guardian)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, April 11
Written by Nicole Levins | April 11th, 2012
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Isn’t technology grand?
- An electric DeLorean is in the works (time travel not included). (EcoGeek)
- Here’s more on the connection between climate change and wacky weather. (DotEarth)
- A new study says shrinking numbers of large predators wreak havoc on forest ecosystems. (YaleE360)
- Might want to double-check– are you buying illegally harvested wood? (Mongabay)
- Research links pesticides to declining bee populations. (Grist)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, April 4
Written by Nicole Levins | April 4th, 2012
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Get your green news on:
- Meet Peter Kareiva, one unconventional conservationist. (Greenwire)
- If it journeyed across the Atlantic today, the Titanic would encounter more icebergs than it did in 1912. (Los Angeles Times)
- Is your favorite restaurant really serving “sustainable” and/or “organic” food? (Grist)
- Look at this cute little albino baby albatross! (Treehugger)
- Climate change=more infectious diseases?! (Huffington Post Green)
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, April 3
Written by Nicole Levins | April 3rd, 2012
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I’m wide awake, it’s (cool green) morning:
- New research shows that our oceans have been heating up for more than 100 years. (Mongabay)
- Denmark plans to rely on 100% renewable energy by 2050. (EcoGeek)
- Do social networks spur greener behavior? (GreenBiz)
- Baby bald eagle cam! (Treehugger)
- A new study shows that some corals are more resilient to increased ocean acidification. (YaleE360)
Cool Green Morning: Friday, March 30
Written by Brad Parker | March 30th, 2012
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I’m pretty sure that if you make it 63 years, you win the game of hide and seek.
- A long-fingered frog, last seen in 1949, has come out of hiding. (Huffington Post)
- New tool predicts Amazon deforestation a year before it happens. (Mongabay)
- A controversial pesticide has been linked to global bee decline. (Wired)
- Live, interactive wind energy map looks like a living van Gogh painting. (Clean Technica)
- New data from an historic sea level rise may help predict effects of climate change. (Scientific American)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, March 28
Written by Nicole Levins | March 28th, 2012
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Do you like luxury?
- Apparently, there’s a Ferrari hybrid in the works. (Gas2)
- This map will show you just how dirty your air is. (Treehugger)
- The US Army gives up on LEED, but not on green building in general. (EcoGeek)
- Here’s how to make solar even more sustainable. (GreenBiz)
- Even with a changing climate, we can still fight food insecurity. (Scientific American)
Is Antarctica’s Fate Sealed?
Written by Jake Cohen | March 19th, 2012
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Climate change is having a huge impact on Antarctica, says The Conservancy’s Geoff Lipsett-Moore. Learn what that means for penguins and southern elephant seals.
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, March 14
Written by Nicole Levins | March 14th, 2012
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The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the news is green.
- Sounds like climate change really has it out for rainforests. (Mongabay)
- Say goodbye to Greenland’s giant ice sheet. (Christian Science Monitor)
- Not a drop of beer– or its waste grain– will go to waste if this big-time brewer gets its way. (Grist)
- Philadelphia makes a play for the country’s greenest football stadium. Fly, Eagles, fly! (Treehugger)
- Starling flocks in flight behave like magnets(?), says a new study. (Wired)
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, March 7
Written by Nicole Levins | March 7th, 2012
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Sometimes, I guess there just isn’t enough corn.
- Warmer temperatures are affecting the cheetah’s ability to reproduce. (Guardian)
- New analysis suggests that there just isn’t enough corn to meet steep Congressional quotas for ethanol. (Conservation Magazine)
- Researchers in India have discovered a new legless, worm-like amphibian, and it’s just as cute as you’d expect. (Mongabay)
- Campbell’s vows to stop lining soup cans with BPA. (GreenBiz)
- This portable treehouse works anywhere– even if there aren’t any trees nearby. (Treehugger)
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, February 28
Written by Nicole Levins | February 28th, 2012
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Get your green news on:
- What shapes American attitudes toward climate change? (Spoiler alert: not climate scientists.) (ArsTechnica, via Wired)
- A new industry standard may keep more cell phones out of landfills. (GreenBiz)
- In Michigan, renewables are now cheaper than coal. (CleanTechnica)
- What’s “left” and what’s “right” when it comes to climate change? (Grist)
- With its numbers dropping 99 percent (!) in some areas, sturgeon could be in some pretty serious trouble. (Green)
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