Salmon adapting to dams? Solar panels causing climate change? Optimistic conservationists? There is nothing wrong with your computer. Do not attempt to adjust your monitor. We are now in control of the transmission…here on the best darn roundup of daily cool green news ever:

The Royal Botanic Gardens in England announces that it’s collected seeds from [...]

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 [...]

Blane Heumann is director of fire management for The Nature Conservancy.
On August 26, a controlled burn (also known as a prescribed fire) got away from a federal fire crew in Yosemite National Park. The Big Meadow fire, which was planned to span one day and 91 acres, is being mopped up today after having spread [...]

Some days, you just have to give in and say: Yes, it really is all about climate change. At least the links are always interesting here at Cool Green Morning:

How is climate change like an epileptic seizure? Climate Feedback reports on two new studies warning that a “flickering” between pre-tipping and post-tipping point conditions often [...]

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 lighting [...]

In the last issue of Nature Conservancy magazine, writer Madeline Bodin reported on white-nose syndrome in bats. Unfortunately, as today’s lead story shows, the situation is getting worse. Read on to learn more… and check out all of today’s top news stories from the enviro-web.

The U.S. Forest Service has ordered thousands of bat caves closed due to deadly white-nose syndrome, and lawmakers [...]

Swine flu may have all the news attention today, but let’s re-focus our thoughts on… frogs. Today is the first-ever international “Save the Frogs Day.” Learn more about how to save one of the world’s most threatened animal groups, and then check out all of today’s top news stories.

Save the Frogs Day: Never heard of it? [...]

Happy Arbor Day! Happy Arbor Day? Sadly overshadowed now by Earth Day, Arbor Day (celebrated in the United States on the last Friday in April) is almost forgotten in the green blogosphere today. Still, why not plant a tree and connect with one of the original American ways of making Earth a little greener? Then [...]

It’s a dewy green morning here, but not so much in the Brazilian Amazon, where forest destruction has led to nighttime dew loss, which has led to declines in rodents, which has led to… well, read on for the rest of this cascading calamity. But never fear, there is some hope in this morning’s top green [...]

We’re covering the globe today… from Australia to Bolivia to Oregon to the depths of the ocean, here are the top green news stories you should read.

Australia Holds the Grim Distinction… of being the place scientists point to for evidence of climate change. Drought, wildfires, heat waves and agricultural collapse plague the country, and the [...]