Green Blog: To Find Diversity Hot Spots, Follow the Ants
April 24, 2012, 1:25 pm By JOANNA M. FOSTERMore on the biodiversity front:For years, scientists tracking global patterns in biodiversity have focused on the distribution of plants, birds and mammals to identify areas that are conservation priorities. ...…
Green Blog: BP Engineer Arrested Over Spill Messages
April 24, 2012, 3:16 pm By THE NEW YORK TIMESFederal prosecutors have arrested a BP engineer in Texas and charged him with two counts of obstruction of justice, saying he deleted text messages about the flow rate in BP’s 2010 oil spill, Clifford Kra...…
Lagunitas Journal: In Lagunitas, Calif., a Fight Over Worms and Moats
At 15,000 square feet, the solar-powered Guitar House, near San Francisco, is believed to be the world's largest green residence. More Photos > Published: November 17, 2005 Inverness, Calif.HE is the Albus Dumbledore of green...…
Has the carbon footprint of our consumption finally peaked?
The UK’s total consumption footprint by sectorIn thousand tonnes of CO2e. All emissions allocated to end user. Roll over segments for data. Today’s select committee report on ‘oursourced’ emissions adds a lot of weight to an argument that many of us have been making for years: that nations…
Germany’s careful toilet-flushing is a drop in the water-conservation ocean | Hanna Gersmann
On average humans are responsible for 1.4m litres of water usage per year – that’s around 8,600 bathtubs. Photograph: Getty While Britain frets about the drought, Germany can’t get enough of saving water. Germans are good at saving water, so good in fact that they have created a problem…
Americans Link Global Warming to Extreme Weather, Poll Says
A tornado in Kansas last week. A new poll suggests the public feels that global warming is real. Scientists may hesitate to link some of the weather extremes of recent years to global warming — but the public, it seems, is already there. A poll due for…
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