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Tree Rings Show Swift Shifts in Europe’s Climate Linked to Rise & Fall of Roman Empire

TreeHugger - Friday, January 14, 2011 13:54

photo: Francesco Z/Creative Commons Those who don't remember the past... It's been long known that changing climatic conditions has contributed to the demise of ancient civilizations (think: the Saraswati-Indus civilization when the Saraswati River d...

New International Sustainability Standard for Cell Phones On Its Way

TreeHugger - Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:00

Photo by Guwashi999 via Flickr Creative Commons UL Environment is working to develop a new set of standards for mobile devices that will green up the industry worldwide. UL is an independent evaluator of products, ensuring they meet certain standards...

Google Map Reveals Weird Weather Caused Half of Mass Animal Deaths

TreeHugger - Friday, January 7, 2011 13:10

image: Mass Animal Deaths - Google Map You'd have to have been sequestered in a cave for the past ten days or so to not have noticed all the coverage of mass bird deaths and fish kills going on right now. And you've perhaps already come across the

Arctic Sea Ice Sets New Low December Record

TreeHugger - Thursday, January 6, 2011 14:29

photo: DorkyMum/Creative Commons The UK may have just had the coldest December in a century, but here's an example of how the rest of the planet as a whole is still warming, even more so in the northern latitudes: As Climate Progress reports, the

Hydrogen Community Lolland – the Future is Here

TreeHugger - Thursday, December 23, 2010 14:26

Photo Credit: Hydrogen Community Lolland In Denmark, a test community is proving hydrogen power is not 10 years into the future, but that it started back in 2006. On the island of Lolland, located in the Baltic Sea, the Danes had a problem - they pro...

Why (and How) Should we Pick up Dog Waste?

TreeHugger - Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:00

Photo by John Talbot via Flickr.com. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com. It's a nice day, you're walking along and all of a sudden--squish. You don't even have to look because you know you've really st...

Climate Refresher: Runaway Global Warming (Video)

TreeHugger - Thursday, December 16, 2010 14:33

It's good to brush up on the basics once in a while -- especially when political and ideological arguments have consumed the public narrative on climate change. It's important to understand the scientific reasons addressing climate change is so urgen...

People Shooting at Wind Turbines in Michigan, Elsewhere

TreeHugger - Tuesday, December 14, 2010 22:41

A pistol at the shooting range. Paper targets, not turbines. Credit: Foxtongue via Flickr. So I heard a TV news report about gunfire that shut down a wind turbine park in Michigan's Thumb. And I went looking for more information on the Internet. It wa...

World’s Greenest Nation? Vatican City Has Most Solar Power Installed Per Capita

TreeHugger - Monday, December 13, 2010 12:07

photo: Matthew McDermott Let's leave differences about the Roman Catholic Church's metaphysical teachings and some of their social stances aside for the moment, and recognize that Vatican City has made huge strides forward in renewable energy, leading the way in ...

Top 10 U.S. States for Clean Energy Leadership

TreeHugger - Wednesday, December 8, 2010 13:01

Image: Clean Edge Who Has the Best Mix of Technology, Policy and Capital? Clean Edge, a research and advisory firm operating in the cleantech sector, has compiled a top 10 of the U.S. states showing the most "clean energy leadership" based on 80 diff...

Increased Plant Growth From Higher CO2 Levels Can Slow But Not Stop Global Warming

TreeHugger - Wednesday, December 8, 2010 11:22

photo: www.bluewaikiki.com/Creative Commons In case you were holding out hope that all that extra CO2 we're pumping into the atmosphere would stimulate enough extra plant growth to balance out any future increases in global temperature, give it up: N...

Climate Change to Kill 5 Million People Globally by 2020 & It Just Goes Up Each Year After That

TreeHugger - Tuesday, December 7, 2010 8:05

From sea level rise, to extreme weather, to desertification, the US has among the highest risk for damages. Photo: US Army/Creative Commons. Each year there are 350,000 people dying due to climate change, with a total death toll by 2020 of five milli...

Canada Dead Last On WWF Climate Report Card

World Weather Post - Tuesday, July 7, 2009 19:51

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