Tag: Antarctica
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, June 19
Written by Madeline Breen | June 19th, 2012
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A bear did not write Cool Green Morning today. We promise.
- Bears have big brains and use computers!? (BBC Nature)
- This just in: Antarctica was once as warm as Iceland. (TG Daily)
- Where have you been hiding all these years, Kandyan dwarf toad? (Mongabay)
- Feast your eyes on the 12 most pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables. (Huffington Post Green)
- Inspecting wind turbine blades is a dangerous job — so hire a robot. (Ecogeek)
Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, May 22
Written by Madeline Breen | May 22nd, 2012
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In today’s green news, we learn yet another awesome benefit to biking.
- Cyclists in the U.S. save a whopping $4.6 billion every year on gas and transportation costs. (TreeHugger)
- Attack of the supersized mice! Endangered baby birds beware. (National Geographic)
- 13 green buildings that will blow your mind. (Huffington Post Green)
- Stressed? Blame your grandparents exposure to chemicals. (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
- An environmental coalition aims to protects Antarctica before it’s too late. (The Guardian)
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: Tuesday, March 6
Written by Madeline Breen | March 6th, 2012
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Climate changes claims another victim in today’s green news: ice hockey.
- The world’s most toxic frog gets a new reserve in Colombia. (Mongabay)
- Robotic “Cheetah” has set a new world speed record. (BBC)
- Climate change may mean the end of ice hockey in Canada. (Guardian)
- Alien species invade Antarctica? (Discovery News)
- Adobe launches new software to cut printing by 40%. (Green Biz)
Nature Photo of the Week: Transantarctic Mountains
Written by Madeline Breen | December 9th, 2011
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Photographer Edmund Stump writes, “As the Andes are to South America and the Himalayas are to Asia, so are the Transantarctic Mountains to Antarctica.” This glorious — and desolate — photograph of the Transantarctic Mountains caught our eye and was an easy pick for Nature Photo of the Week. Thanks to Flickr user Edmund Stump [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 22
Written by Nicole Levins | November 22nd, 2010
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Get your green news on:
- The economic recession’s silver lining? Lower carbon emissions, says a new study. (Green House)
- Is there a better, non-doom-and-gloom way to spur action on climate change? (ClimateBiz)
- Antarctica: the fastest warming place on Earth. (YaleE360)
- Is veganism physically impossible for some people? (Treehugger)
- You’re greening your Cyber Monday, your pets, your garden… now green your work meetings! (GreenBiz)
Cool Green Morning: Monday, December 7
Written by Bob Lalasz | December 7th, 2009
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It’s the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor…and the opening of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. (Don’t draw any inferences from that coincidence.) It might be snowy and freezing where you are, but it’s always cool and green here every weekday… 56 newspapers in 45 countries have published op-eds this morning urging decisive [...]
Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 23
Written by Bob Lalasz | November 23rd, 2009
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East Antarctica is melting. CO2 atmospheric concentrations are the highest in 2 million years. Green innovation needs more than a price on carbon. Cheery news this Cool Green Morning! But if we’re going to Hades, at least we’re taking the bus there…fasten your seat belts and drive deep into today’s green links: Americans are loving [...]
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, April 29
Written by Bob Lalasz | April 29th, 2009
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Hurricanes — can’t live with them, and can barely run away from them. But hurricane season predictions? How about we just outlaw those right now? That and today’s other top green questions asked (and perhaps answered) below: I Predict 100 Bad Hurricane-Season Predictions This Year: Predictions about the upcoming hurricane season are notoriously bad, reports [...]
Cool Green Morning: Friday, April 17
Written by Bob Lalasz | April 17th, 2009
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After you’ve had a species named after you, what else is left? I mean, where can you possibly go that’s better? (Even if it’s a species of lichen.) That’s the dilemma for President Obama this morning….while the rest of us ponder what the difference between moss and lichen is, and the rest of today’s cool [...]
