To Celebrate Our One Year Anniversary we are presenting Bloggers for Positive Global Change Awards again:
We at Climate of Our Future (COOF) believe in blogging with a purpose. Our particular mission is no small task — changing the world we live in for the better — but we take great comfort in the fact that […]
Ruling holds that Forest Service likely violated federal law with 2004 logging plan
May 14, 2008
San Francisco, CA — In a reversal of the Bush administration’s attempt to accelerate logging for profit in the Sierra Nevada’s national forests, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Forest Service likely violated long-standing federal environmental laws […]
EarthJustice.org
Earthjustice fends off challenge from coal plant operator
May 7, 2008
Cheyenne, WY — The Wyoming Environmental Quality Council has refused to dismiss an Earthjustice appeal of an air quality permit issued to the Dry Fork power plant by the state Department of Environmental Quality in October.
By unanimously rejecting Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s motion to dismiss, the […]
SciDev.net
Catarina Chagas
8 May 2008 | EN
Declining aerosol pollution could make severe drought in the Amazon rainforest more common in the twenty-first century, report scientists in Nature today (8 May).
British and Brazilian researchers used mathematical models to simulate the effect of climate change on rainfall variation in the Amazon. They used the severe drought in the […]
>office furniture in Bulgariafurniture Bulgariarnational oil companies must not be allowed to proceed with widespread seismic testing this summer in the Arctic seas. The testing was prematurely approved by the government and will likely harm tens of thousands of marine mammals, Earthjustice announced as it sued to halt those activities.
Shell Oil and other oil companies […]
Treehugger
All eyes have been on the Kansas legislature this week as they look to override Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ veto of a bill proposing two coal-fired power plants in the state. The Kansas State Senate did override the veto, but the State House did not achieve an override. Think that’s a success? Hold up – there’s […]
Climate Crisis Coalition
By Mike Tidwell, Orion, May/June, 2008 issue.
“What the scientists have been wrong about — and I mean really, really wrong — is the speed at which it’s all occurring. Our climate system isn’t just ‘changing.’ It’s not just ‘warming.’ It’s snapping, violently, into a whole new regime right before our eyes. A […]
Scidev.net
Citizen scientists can contribute greatly
to research
Earthwatch/Martin K Skow
Nigel Winser and Raghu Saxena
25 April 2008 | EN
Volunteer citizen scientists are an important resource — particularly for developing countries, argue Nigel Winser and Raghu Saxena.
Time and again, ‘citizen scientists’ — members of the public who voluntarily help scientific studies — have made a real difference to research, […]
TreeHugger
The US Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), and current enabling rules have been in place since the 1970’s. From the customer viewpoint, there’s no excuse for a nationally prominent firm formulating gardening products without proper safety testing and registration.
EPA is ordering Scotts Miracle-Gro Co., located in Marysville, Ohio, to stop selling and distributing […]
TreeHugger
Image courtesy of D&J Huber via flickr A festering problem Lloyd reported on last year — the invasion of British Columbia’s forests by voracious mountain pine beetles — has taken a drastic turn for the worse, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. Werner Kurz of Natural Resources Canada found that the […]
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