Animal Welfare: Seeing the Forest for the Denizens
If you’re a Huffington Post reader, your love of animals has been nurtured by “Hedgehogs Being Adorable,” “Baby Hippo Has Won Our Hearts,” and other such gems.
climate change
Fast-Warming Gulf of Maine Offers Hint of Future for Oceans
The waters off the coast of New England are warming more rapidly than almost any other ocean region on earth. Scientists are now studying the resulting ecosystem changes, and their findings could provide a glimpse of the future for many of the world’s coastal communities.
The problems of environmental activism in Russia
Climate change is still of little interest to Russians. But why?
Learning from Icarus
What if Icarus’ father—knowing his son would fly too close to the sun—had made the wings he designed more resilient?
Is This All We Get?
To re-cap for those living under rocks the U.S. and China announced this week a surprise breakthrough in negotiating a secret bilateral deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Queue confetti.
Review: Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything
We are all striving to create communities that create more life, rather than destroy it.
Divest or Else: How Hip-Hop Can Help Save the Planet
Since Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, America’s poor urban populations have known that climate change is more than a cause for the liberal, college-educated elite.
Energy Crunch: the road to decarbonisation?
Fossil fuel emissions need to hit zero by end of this century to reduce the dangerous and irreversible impacts of climate change, says the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
U.S. & China Emmissions Deal is First Step but More Needed
The world’s two most egregious air polluters – the U.S. and China – announced a deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions during the next 20 years.
Climate Game Change
The leaders of the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters promised to cap carbon pollution in 15 to 20 years.
Peak Oil Notes – Nov 13
London crude traded below $80 a barrel on Wednesday for the first time since Septermber 2010, closing at $80.83, also a four year low.
Greening Houston
The U.S. capital of the oil industry could teach other cities a thing or two about fighting climate change—in a politically inhospitable climate.
