Success of Marine Protected Areas Depends on These 5 Things
A new study examines why MPAs like Cocos Island are so rich in marine life.
Green living, according to Elizabeth Sy – Inquirer.net
Inquirer.netGreen living, according to Elizabeth SyInquirer.netSy maintains she doesn't get coughs or even morning sniffles, common to most people living in polluted cities. When her friends in and past midlife…
10 Health Benefits of Green Tea – Care2.com
Care2.com10 Health Benefits of Green TeaCare2.comThat is inevitable. However, given that green tea drinkers are at a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer, it makes sense that it could…
Grid-Tied Renewables Savings Outweigh Costs
The additional costs associated with adopting renewable energy are frequently used to argue that it is too expensive to adopt renewables. However, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has taken a…
Making Tractor Trailers More Fuel Efficient
Sixty-eight percent of all goods in the United States spend some of their journey across the country stored on tractor trailers attached to a tractor. With the average semi-trailer truck…
Revisiting Nicaragua, This Time as a Tourist
More than 25 years after arriving in Managua during the Sandinista-contra conflict, the author returns, finding contrasts between her memories and today’s Nicaragua.
Experiencing New Orleans With Fresh Eyes and Ears
Artists who have moved to the Big Easy reflect on the influences and inspiration they find in their adopted home.
Teacup pigs are a fraud
The internet is full of breeders selling teacup and mirco-mini pigs, but many of these claims are false.
Photo: A pristine beach on Fuerteventura island
Fuerteventura is one of the Canary Islands, its name can be translated as "strong winds."
Obama’s Climate Action Plan Acknowledges Role of Nature in Solutions
CI's experts comment on the U.S. president's much-talked-about climate plan.
Global Community Takes Bold Steps to Fight Elephant Poaching
Halting the ivory trade could do more than protect elephants; it could help enhance national and global security.
How We Spend Trillions of Dollars To Feed Our Self-Sabotage
By Mike Bundrant for NaturalNews.com If there is anything in life that you can count on, it’s people doing harm to themselves. In fact, it seems the world economy might…
The Power of Scent
By Sachinda Jayatilleke There is a lot to be said for the healing power of flowers. Not only do they activate those feel good endorphins around your body but they…
Typhoon Haiyan’s Impact Felt in Warsaw
Thousands are dead and millions of lives were changed forever when the devastating storm struck the Philippines. As the world negotiates a climate treaty, the director of CI's Philippines program…
California’s Plan to Replace San Onofre Nuclear: Green Success or Natural Gas Giveaway?
It’s official: the long-range plan to replace 2,200 megawatts of shuttered Southern California nuclear power will include new natural gas-fired power plants, as well as a hefty share of green…
Winston turns for the first time
Jon Beeson from Severn Trent Water shows us around the new wind turbine that has been erected at the Newthorpe site.
East Anglia: New Anglia LEP welcomes Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult report on growth prospects
New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership has welcomed a study highlighting the huge potential of offshore renewble energy projects to boost growth and jobs.
The epidemic of climate science false balance in the media
False balance in media reporting on climate change is a big problem for one overarching reason: there is a huge gap between the 97 percent expert consensus on human-caused global…
30 US Senators Speak Up4Climate Science
On the night of March 10th to the morning of March 11th, 30 US Senators stayed up all night speaking about climate change for 15 hours. The event was the…
ALERT! Implore President Obama to End Climate Appeasement by Supporting a Carbon Tax
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! There exists near unanimous scientific consensus that abrupt climate change is occurring, that it is caused by burning fossil fuels and clearing natural ecosystems, and that…
Tell Avon, New Jersey: Old-Growth Rainforest Boardwalks Cause Abrupt Climate Change
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW! Tiny Avon, New Jersey, is moving forward with plans to rebuild their ocean-front boardwalk - recently destroyed by Hurricane Sandy – for the second time in…
Exploring CRUTEM4 with Google Earth
Guest commentary by Tim Osborn and Phil Jones The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) land surface air temperature data set, CRUTEM4, can now be explored using Google Earth. Access is via…
Going with the wind
A new paper in Nature Climate Change out this week by England and others joins a number of other recent papers seeking to understand the climate dynamics that have led…