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The Christian Science Monitor has always had excellent environmental coverage, but now they’ve gone above and beyond by creating an entire website devoted to global warming. It’s great one-stop shopping for the latest news. Speaking of, check out “Many new constraints for Bush on the environment,” a delightful rundown of all the setbacks and humiliations […]

Marian Devil Just Doesn’t Have the Same Ring

Legendary Tasmanian devil faces relocation or extinction Australia is working to save the Tasmanian devil from extinction. Plagued by a contagious cancer, the carnivorous marsupial is dying out on its eponymous island. Scientists have sent nearly 50 of the beasts to zoos and want to move 30 more to nearby Maria Island, a former prison […]

Heads You Lose, Tails I Win

World Bank has been OKing illegal logging in the Congo, says Greenpeace study You’ve probably developed an immunity to scandal and outrage, but we’ll keep plying you with it anyway: a two-year study by Greenpeace International has found that in the past three years, Congolese village chiefs have handed over vast expanses of the world’s […]

He Covers the Hotter Front

Schwarzenegger says sexy greens are successful — and he should know In a speech at Georgetown University yesterday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said environmentalists need to get hip and sexy to counter their image as “prohibitionists at a fraternity party.” Brandishing a batch of recent green-themed magazines — some featuring his mug on the cover […]

Conoco Your Own Way

First major U.S. oil company joins coalition to limit greenhouse gases You thought the times were a-changin’ in the ’60s? Meet 2007, baby! This week, ConocoPhillips became the first major U.S. oil company to join the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of green groups and corporations begging Congress to impose federal limits on greenhouse […]

Weird but true

Another blog that’s recently become required reading for me: Mode Shift, a blog on urban sustainability from Keith Schneider, founder of the Michigan Land Use Institute. Yesterday brought a somewhat surprising post on big plans afoot to make Knoxville, Tenn. (among other places) a model of sustainable, healthy living. Y’all may or may not know […]

This time, it’s personal

(Continued from parts I and II.)

Last but not least (actually, what quite literally hits closest to home!):

North America

Colorado soccer team first to go carbon neutral

The sporting news comes fast and furious! Yesterday, big names who are going eco. The day before, jolly green Giants. (And by “yesterday” and “the day before” I don’t mean sporty things actually happened those days — I just mean I got around to writing about them.) But! Timely news, from — doth mine ever-behind-the-times […]

Oh, the anticipation!

The IPCC report I’ve most been looking forward to is from Working Group III, on mitigation. It looks like drafts of that report are already leaking — Reuters has a (poorly written) rundown. From what I can tell through the muddy writing, the IPCC lays out a range of mitigation scenarios, which would run anywhere […]

A visual comparison

When the IPCC WGII summary was released last week, there were media reports on last-minute clashes between scientists and political types — the former pushing for the original strong language, the latter pushing to water it down. George Monbiot’s column yesterday addressed the subject, in characteristically outraged tones. For those interested in the details, DeSmogBlog […]