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Photo via FreeSpeech Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so. The Secretary General for the UN said that scientists from academies around...
Photo via Sheerman-Chase I can’t wait to see the comments on this one. Really, I can’t. But this is a concept that I think is important to think about, especially at a time when much of the media appears to be buying into the narrative...
Photo via casers jean How do we keep fish on the menu? Chef Dan Barber asked this question at the recent TED 2010 event. Farmed fish is a problematic issue – sustainable fish farming is even more so. What’s sustainable, and is farmed fish...
photo: Quinn Dombrowski via flickr. We just passed two milemarkers which make this next one all the more poignant: First, two days ago was International Women’s Day and, second, we’ve just been told that in many places women are going to...
photo: BP Greenopia has updated their guide to the greenest oil companies –though it may seem like it, it’s not entirely an oxymoron–and BP is still on top. The other positions have shifted a bit, with Sunoco and Hess taking second...
Dog wounded in New Jersey black bear attack. Image credit: News 12, video. Without getting into what constitutes a black bear “home invasion” or “pet attack” incident, all would agree that black bears frequently in the yard,...
Image credit: Good Passing a strong climate bill, Good tells us in a recent editorial, is a necessity. Such a bill, they write, must be defined by what is good for the country, not what is easy for the Senate to agree upon…. Read the full story...
The greater sage-grouse was deemed to be “warranted but precluded” by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Though it “warrants” protection under the Endangered Species Act, Secretary of the Interior...
image: Carnegie Institution We’ve written about the phenomenon of outsourced carbon emissions a number of times, with the example of perhaps up to one third of China’s emissions coming from manufacturing goods destined for consumption abroad...
