Filed under: Food , Climate Change , Plants and Wildlife Scientists at the NASA-sponsored Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment recently discovered a miracle gas that has approximately 4,800 times the planet warming potential of CO2 . Argh! I know what you might be thinking [...]

US Coal Projects Get the Axe

Filed under: Activism , Alternative Energy , Climate Change Coal haters, it appears that your protests have been heard loud and clear. Because of the negative backlash from the public, clashes with green protesters, and — perhaps most important — the threat of profit-killing restrictions imposed at [...]

Filed under: News , GreenTech , Climate Change Though many of us heard the news about the carbon-tracking satellite that failed to reach orbit and came crashing back down to Earth near Antarctica last week — many of us either ignored it or brushed it [...]

Hug a Really Big Tree

Filed under: Climate Change , Plants and Wildlife Recent research says that tropical forests are absorbing more C02 than we thought they were. The study reports that trees within forests across Africa are getting bigger, and also trapping more C02 per year that original estimates. Researchers warn that [...]

Al Gore Endorses 350.org

Filed under: News , Climate Change The climate talks in Poznan got mixed reviews — for some the steps being discussed are too timid and tepid. But last Friday Al Gore gave a rousing speech declaring that new guidelines must aim to reduce the amount of [...]

Filed under: News , Polit-eco , Climate Change Despite a Supreme Court decision and a near-miss on a contempt of Congress citation , the…

Shark week on Capitol Hill

Filed under: Polit-eco , Climate Change As lawmakers ease back into work after the July 4 recess, they’ll be considering a couple of bills of interest to the green…




  • Gaiam.com, Inc