We are headed into Week Two of international climate negotiations here in Bangkok. Progress is slow…but there is some progress. I asked Andrew Deutz, The Nature Conservancy’s director of international government relations, to provide some context on what’s going on…and what it means for a climate-change agreement in Copenhagen this December:
Q: What progress has been [...]

This fabulous close-up of a young green anole was taken by Flickr user Jenna Stirling in her backyard in Texas. Never seen an anole before? Me neither. But now I know it’s a lizard closely related to the iguana, though because it can change its skin color and run up walls, the anole is often [...]

BONN, Germany — The Nature Conservancy’s forest carbon team hosted an event here at the Bonn climate talks this week to present an innovative proposal on how to reduce emissions from global deforestation — a crucial part of effectively addressing climate change. I sat down with the team to get their perspectives on the proposal [...]

I wrote about the Church Bird of Borneo a few weeks ago, and asked the question how species could be evolutionary winners and conservation disasters at the same time.
The issue is about exotic and invasive species that are ecologically much better adapted to their new environments than indigenous species, which are often fine-tuned with their [...]

Happy MLK Day to those of you in the United States! Here’s the green stuff that’s catching our eye online this morning:

Wardrobe Check: Inhabitat urges Michelle Obama to dress green for the inauguration.

Lean Green Fighting Machine: The Pentagon is realizing that renewable energy makes for good defense policy, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The Clock is [...]

California’s Santa Cruz Island is famous for its miniature foxes and baby bald eagles, but now a new creature is making headlines — the pygmy mammoth.
At least, that’s what researchers think the four-foot-long bone — recently unearthed on the island — once belonged to. (Check out the full story here.)
An archeology student from the University [...]

“Not another blog!?” you might be saying. And you’d be right: Cool Green Science isn’t just another blog.
For starters, it’s a group blog about every important conservation issue you can think of – from migratory birds to coral reefs, from rainforests to climate change to personal green technology. There’s nothing like it in the world.
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Good morning! (We didn’t say that too loudly, in case you’re still suffering from a New Year’s hangover.) Here’s what we’re finding in the green blogosphere this morning:

Joel Makower is pessimistic that businesses can ever achieve true sustainability–that is, without an economic meltdown to prod them.
But is corporate carbon neutrality impossible, anyway? That’s what a [...]