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China, India will Continue to Replace Declining US Coal Demand so What's the Problem

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 in Fossil Fuels

Peabody Energy Corp., one of the world’s largest coal miners, said the industry will continue to rely on China and other developing nations as the U.S. uses less. Here’s what the St. Louis company expects for the coal market in 2012: —Ninety gigawatts of coal-fired power plants will come onl...

BP may agree $25 billion oil spill payout

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 22 January 2012 in Oil Spill

BP is likely to agree next month to pay $20-$25 billion to settle all charges around the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a leading analyst, double the figure the company has set aside and more than other analysts expect. BP and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) have been silent ...

Feeding 7 Billion People Without Ruining The Planet

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 22 January 2012 in Agriculture

It turns out converted rainforest land is neither particularly productive as farmland nor climate smart, since creating it releases huge amounts of carbon sequestered in trees. Now that we’re surrounded by 7 billion of our closest friends, it’s probably a good time to talk about how we’re ...

Students Demand Answers about Climate Change from Science Teachers

Posted by voice on Saturday, 21 January 2012 in Climate Change

Prior to taking Mr. Visco's high school science class, Keith Hogan did not believe humans had had any hand in climate change. "I thought the media had just picked that up and blown it out of proportion," he said. Hogan remembers the day the "lightbulb went off," about four years ago. He'd ...

Obama Stands up to Big Oil and Polluter Politicians

Posted by bchristo on Saturday, 21 January 2012 in Fossil Fuels

President Obama stood up to Big Oil and its puppets in Congress and denied a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline yesterday. This is encouraging news for the communities whose air and water would have been directly threatened by this pipeline, from Canada to Nebraska to the Gulf Coast. And ...

Pre-School_Link

Posted by audelee on Thursday, 19 January 2012 in Agriculture

First Grade Reading Games Award winning website teaches children to read with phonics. Fun, interactive phonics activities for Preschool, kindergarten, first grade and second grade.

Saving the rainforest with a Stethoscope

Posted by amir on Thursday, 19 January 2012 in Human Health

BOGOR, Indonesia (18 January, 2011)_ Improving the health of local women in forest communities may provide powerful incentives for them to contribute to conservation efforts, says a recent study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). However, minimal availability of he...

Smuggling elephants to get money to pay for identity cards.

Posted by amir on Thursday, 19 January 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

The chief of Phetchaburi's Kaeng Krachan district denied yesterday there was any need for Karen people to bribe officials, after a senior official's comment that Karen poachers were trying to smuggle elephants to get money to pay for identity cards. Sutthipong Tanboonyasiridech di...

As oceans grow more acidic, marine life suffers

Posted by Angel on Wednesday, 18 January 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

If you drive, fertilize your lawn, or buy sushi, you could be contributing to the demise of coral reefs. Scientists call coral reefs the rainforests of the ocean, because these vibrant habitats support so much and such diverse life. But worldwide, coral reefs face serious threats. Paulo Maurin, e...

Selling Whales to Save Them?

Posted by Aaron on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

When it comes to commercial whaling, things are rarely as simple as they seem. The fact that it continues, 30 years after the International Whaling Commission (IWC) voted for an indefinite moratorium, suggests that there has been some kind of failure on the part of environmentalists and other oppone...

Sumatran rhinos find each other

Posted by bchristo on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 in Wildlife Conservation

Puntung is a Sumatran rhino, one of roughly two hundred left in the world. Captured in a Borneo forest on Christmas Day, she is the latest addition to Malaysia's Borneo Rhino Sanctuary -- and experts say she may also be one of the last hopes for a species on the brink of extinction. Veterinarians ...

Can we keep discussions about ocean acidification honest?

Posted by Angel on Monday, 16 January 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

In his article, ‘Taking Fears of Acid Oceans with a Grain of Salt’, Matt Ridley recycles the standard arsenal of invalid climate ‘skeptic’ arguments and tactics, but applies them to ocean acidification, the lesser known global impact from rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The result is a...

CO2 threatens fish's very survival in oceans

Posted by amir on Monday, 16 January 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Can you imagine seas and oceans completely bereft of colourful fish? The possibility may not be all that far-fetched, thanks to rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By the end of the century, CO2 concentrations in seas will interfere with fish's ability to hear, smell, turn and evade predators, sa...

Environmental Hero with a Fish Story

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 12 January 2012 in Environmental Heroes

Shannon Skelton, Environmental Hero with a Fish Story Worth Hearing The early years were a scary endeavor and squeaky tight financially. Yet, Shannon Skelton knew he could build a better river. With water resources valued for sustaining human life, Skelton had his work cut out for him to champion a...

Oil Spill on Christmas Island

Posted by voice on Thursday, 12 January 2012 in Oil Spill

Hundreds of thousands of juvenile land crabs are being threatened by an oil spill on Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. On Sunday, a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship, MV Tycoon, was pushed against the sea wall of the island's Flying Fish cove by a giant swell. Severe weather conditions ...

Too Green to Be True

Posted by amir on Thursday, 12 January 2012 in Wind

Renewable energy sources could allow for a prudent decrease in CO2 emissions while still powering a populous, electrified global economy. On The Pump Handle, Mark Pendergrast examines the proverbial canary in the coal mine, Japan. Wary of imported fossil fuels and burned by nuclear disaster, Japan i...

Global Warming Could Delay Next Ice Age

Posted by Angel on Tuesday, 10 January 2012 in Climate Change

The next ice age could be delayed by tens of thousands of years due to excessive amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which disrupts Earth’s natural cycle of warming and cooling, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. analyzed ice core and marine sediment data from one mil...

CEFF preview event - Jan. 20, 2012

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 10 January 2012 in Arts and Entertainment

Contact: Danette Dacey BohlColorado Environmental Film FestivalPhone: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.ceff.net FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE MERCURY CAFÉ HOSTS PREVIEW EVENT ON JANUARY 20th 2012 FOR CEFF Golden, CO – January 9, 2012: On January 20th, 2012, The M...

Earth Day Scholarship Canada

Posted by voice on Monday, 09 January 2012 in Agriculture

The deadline to apply for the 2012 Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program, providing twenty $5000 scholarships to graduating high school students, is Jan. 31. Earth Day Canada recently launched the scholarship for students who have distinguished themselves through environmental community se...

Coral Disease Hits the Reefs of Kane'ohe Bay, O'ahu

Posted by Wolf on Saturday, 07 January 2012 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

In March 2010 an outbreak of a disease called acute Montipora White Syndrome (MWS) was discovered affecting coral reefs in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. Follow-up surveys found that the disease left trails of rubble in its wake. It was estimated that over 100 colonies of rice coral (Montipora capitata) died du...