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Did An Inconvenient Truth Change Your Mind?

Welcome Green Gabbro! (An Introduction by Chris Rowan)

Chris Rowan from Highly Allochthonous writes a warm introduction for new sciblog Green Gabbro.

Biosphere 2 Finds New Life... as a Subdivision

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

Better Mental Health through Biodiversity

A monoculture can't cure Road Rage, but an ecosystem can.

Economics Drives Beef Into the Limelight

Why is beef on everybody's brain?

Voyage of the Endurance, Now in Google Maps

Armchair explorers don't have to eat seals.

Spinal Tap Reunites to Save World from Global Warming

The Earth isn't the only thing that's hotter than ever.

IPCC Confirms: Sky IS Falling.

A little known side effect of climate change: fewer hours in the day.

Farms of the Sky

What if skyscraper roofs held not just geranium patches and brick patios, but full-scale farms that produced fruit and veggies year-round, generated clean energy, and purified wastewater?

Sea of People Takes Manhattan

Today, New York City is wringing itself out after a late-season Nor'easter. Saturday, it faced a flood of climate change activists armed with a vision of a partially-submerged Manhattan island.

Kookaburra Gets Gum Tree All to Itself

Climate change and deforestation threaten Australia's iconic marsupials. If current trends continue, some experts predict that koalas will disappear altogether within the next ten years.

Welcome, Shifting Baselines!

'Flock of Dodos' filmmaker Randy Olson and UBC fisheries doctoral student Jennifer Jacquet bring the long-running ocean-conservation blog Shifting Baselines to Sb.

Little Grassroots

A new blog for children to discuss global warming posts a letter from a Brooklyn "six-year-old I'd like to nominate for President."

Climate Change Bill Would Slash Britain's Emissions by 2050

The British government has introduced a sweeping bill that would cut the UK's carbon emissions by 60 percent by 2050. Britain's environmental minister, David Miliband, introduces the bill on YouTube.

Ixnay on the Ears-Bay...

U.S. Interior Department to traveling government officials: Just don't mention the polar bears.

Bee Very Worried...

Its causes unknown, Colony Collapse Disorder is decimating North American honeybee populations—and putting billions of dollars worth of agricultural crops in jeopardy this year.

Diesel is "Global Warming Ready"

Global climate change may melt glaciers, slash biodiversity, and displace countless coastal dwellers, but there's one thing rising temperatures will never boil away: Our sense of style! That's the message Diesel (the jeans company, not the fuel) hopes to spread...

We've Had it Up to Here.

What does your state do with its garbage?

Podcasting Kilimanjaro

Tune in to daily podcasts from the route up Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's tallest free-standing mountain and, at 19,340 feet, the highest peak in Africa.

Evangelical Climate Initiative

Another notch in the conservation movement's bedpost.

Pimp My Tactical Biorefinery!

With a gasifier, a bioreactor, and a modified diesel engine to power it, your subwoofer could be the envy of the neighborhood.

One Man's Trash is Another Man's... Environmental Catastrophe

Ever wonder where old computers go when they die? The developing world.

"And On His Farm He Had a Fuel Cell, E-i-ei-o..."

In the wake of the IPCC Report, this bill may have slipped under your radar.

Yo-Ho, I'm a Pirate!

Sinking whaling ships since 1979.

IPCC: Media Friendly?

Here's three quotes from today's IPCC press conference, which I transcribed straight from the webcast (hence the wacky grammar)...

The IPCC Report in Plain Language

A plain-English overview of the IPCC report's findings, and a question about climate activism in the age of assured global warming.

Blogging on the Eve of the IPCC

Hours before the release of the IPCC's "Climate Change 2007" report, the internet buzzes with early punditry.

Architecture and Our Changing Climate: A "Global Emergency Teach-In"

A unique event at the New York Academy of Sciences urges architects to take their necessary place on the front lines of the environmental movement.

The Redder, the Greedier

Are Republicans really energy hogs?

It's Hard to Be King

Climate change is gaining coverage in mainstream media. This Flash game from the BBC furthers the cause.

The Greening of the Closet?

In the 1970s, Alice Waters brought "slow food" to America. Amid fears about the environmental impact of the garment industry, can "slow clothes" be far behind?

Waiting to Exhale

Watch the Earth breathe.

Mind the GDP, I Mean, the Gap

A little-known Google tool to tickle your infographic fancy.

Venti Latte, Hold the Hormones

Under pressure from consumers, Starbucks jumps on the hormone-free milk bandwagon.

If the Devil Owned Hell and Texas...

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Bush is expected to call for increased reliance on, and investment in, biofuels, to mitigate U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Meanwhile, in Bush's home state, Interstate I-10 through Houston is being expanded to 18 lanes.

Seeds of Peace (and Quiet)

Plants don't really need soil; just ask the French.

It's Official: The Grand Canyon Is Millions of Years Old, and Facts Don't Check Themselves

Skeptic runs a retraction which proves that sound journalistic practices don't become less relevant in the age of the web.

Air Pollution, Over Time.

A century of city smog can take its toll.

Children of Men

If fertility levels were to remain unchanged at today's levels, world population would rise to 244 billion persons in 2150 and 134 trillion in 2300, clearly indicating that current levels of high fertility cannot continue indefinitely.

Trouble Breathing? Blame the Jet Stream.

Since moving to New York, I've been having trouble breathing. Is city air pollution to blame?

The Climes, They Are A-Changin'

The National Arbor Day Foundation visualizes climate change since 1990, in your own backyard.

John Candy Would Approve

Is it ever less polluting to fly than drive?

Tectonic Colonic

Geologic time includes now. Bonus points to the (non-geologists) who can explain why earthquakes get deeper, moving eastward across the Andes...

There's organic, and then there's....organic

Organic foods from your supermarket may comply with the requirements of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program, but are you really buying what you think you're buying? Many people "go organic" because they want to buy family-farmed, locally-operated produce. But as Steven Shapin points out in the New Yorker, most organic food sold in grocery stores is anything but. Earthbound Farm, a major organic produce supplier for Whole Foods, has projected revenues for 2006 of more than $450 million, and farms more than 26,000 acres. Doesn't sound so quaint anymore, does it.

Yet Another Place to See Before it Disappears

When I hear "glacier" I think of words like "fjord" and "Greenland." It's easy to forget that there are some not so far away from us, rapidly receding like most of their brethren. Ex seed staffer done good Ted...

Polar Bear Blues, Revisited

On the lighter side, not everyone is sad that polar bears might be going away. Seed actually located one of these individuals and asked what he thinks about drowning polar bears. His reaction is below the fold....

Tracking the Plight of the Walrus

As a followup to my post about abandoned walrus calves, here is a nifty plugin for Google Earth that allows anyone to track the movements of radio-tagged walruses in the Arctic. The page is in Danish, but I think ScienceBlogs...

Global Warming Casualties: If It's Cute, Will People Finally Care?

There's been a lot of justified hullabaloo recently over the fate of Arctic polar bears. You see, they're drowning in record numbers as their habitat, in an eyeblink, drastically changes from the ice floes they've known for thousands of years...

Early-Morning Culture Jam

Here's some jollity, just in time for Friday. Chevrolet has launched a promotion in which people visit a website and use online modules to create a 30-second advertising spot for the Chevy Tahoe SUV. The early entries might not have...

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