“Climate Impacts on Olympic Peninsula Forests” vividly portrays the ongoing effects of climate change on our beautiful native plants and animals, through the interpretation of award winning fine artist of John C. Pitcher. John Pitcher can be reached at: goldleafart@myfairpoint.net May 17,... 

How can a painting help us understand the likely effects of a warming climate? It is perhaps the best way to do so, since an artist capable of creating highly realistic scenes can show us the species likely to be present in an ecosystem as its average and extreme temperatures change over time. “Climate... 

The worst oil spill in U.S. history hits its 40th day on Saturday with Gulf residents clinging to one tenuous hope: that BP’s complicated “top kill” operation will plug the gushing well. Beleaguered Louisiana residents heard from President Barack Obama and BP CEO Tony Hayward on separate... 

The Minerals Management Service, which has a key role in approving offshore oil drilling, is a captive agency, more beholden to industry than citizens. How can it be reformed? More: The Days of Drugs and Sex at MMS are Over, But the Culture Hasn’t Changed  Read More →

From fuel-free planes to biofuels, exciting new technologies suggest bluer skies to come. Go here to see the original: Green Aviation Takes Off  Read More →

Don’t worry about stocking up on sunscreen, but our solar system may be headed for a celestial version of global warming. A new analysis suggests that in about 100 years the sun could plunge into a hot cloud of interstellar gas. The change should have no impact on our planet, but it could boost... 

While Western policymakers direct their focus toward mitigating carbon emissions, Bangladesh is one of the few countries to accept the inevitability of climate change and start tackling adaption head-on. Once the very symbol of backwardness—an ‘international basket case’ in Henry Kissinger’s... 

There are many earth cycles. One is a cycling between warmer and colder periods which are commonly called ice ages. The causes of these cycles are complex and are related to how much sun radiation we get as well as some slight variation in the sun itself. Scientists have recently found a possible source... 

Just two months ago, it seemed that the Arctic had stabilized. however briefly. The latest sea ice data shows that it was brief, indeed. Read the original: Arctic Melt Accelerates  Read More →

North Carolina and others take steps against polluting hog waste. Read more from the original source: Cleaning Up Hog Waste, Another Smelly Mess  Read More →

The U.S. Green Building Council (“USGBC”) recently released a certification system for green neighborhood development, known as LEED-ND.[1] LEED-ND expands the well-known LEED system for green buildings to larger-scale projects ranging in size from two buildings to multiple buildings on sites... 

Large sheets of ice and snow form on the poles of both Earth and Mars. On Earth their formation is shaped by ice and water flows. On Mars there is an oddness of spiraling troughs and a giant canyon. What in the climate of Mars does this? Data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have helped... 

The U.S. government ordered a temporary halt to drilling at 33 deepwater exploration rigs on Thursday, part of a broader response to the massive BP oil spill that threatens efforts to tap offshore fields seen as crucial to increased U.S. oil output. The move may potentially delay project development... 

Oil giant BP plc has a very long straw stuck 3048 meters into the Gulf of Mexico sea floor with oil and gas spouting out the top at several thousand pascals. How do BP engineers stop the flow when none of the control valves at the top is working and there’s no way to put a stopper in the straw’s... 

by Agence France-Presse. GRAND ISLE, La. — President Barack Obama told the people of the Gulf Coast Friday they would not be “abandoned,” in his most impassioned remarks yet on the United States’ worst-ever oil spill. He spoke from the Louisiana coast during his second tour of... 

by Grist. BP’s latest one-two punch —pumping “heavy drilling fluid” with a junk-shot chaser—seems to be slowing the leaking Gulf oil well. But don’t uncross those fingers yet. “It’s going pretty well, according to plan,” BP chief Tony Hayward told... 

Some of The Daily Green’s favorite bits from around the Web. Read more here: Top 8 Links of the Week: Living in the Round, Egregious Extinctions, Diving Into the Oil Spill … And More  Read More →

Despite the apparent initial success of the “top kill,” 39 days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, it’s quite possible that the BP oil spill is three times as big as the Exxon Valdez . Read the original post: BP Oil Spill Size? The Biggest in U.S. History  Read More →

Are most Gulf beaches really clean and safe following the BP Gulf oil spill ? Read more here: Fact Checking Obama’s BP Oil Spill Speech  Read More →

The enthusiasm is building — we’re just a few months from the U.S. launch of the first electric vehicles aimed at mainstream consumers. Nissan is touting the success of the registration program for its upcoming Leaf EV, boasting 13,000 orders for its vehicles. It is hoped across the industry...