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Study: If Americans replaced short car trips with pedal power, they’d stave...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now If Americans substituted biking for just half of their daily short car trips they’d enjoy extensive health benefits, while contributing to cleaner air, which would...
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Does the U.S. even need more tar sands oil from Canada?
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now One key argument being used by proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline is that it will make the US more secure by providing oil from Canada, a friendlier source than...
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Green Test Drive: Redesigned 2012 Yaris offers roomier ride, less cutesy look
By Clint Williams Green Right Now The 2012 Toyota Yaris is better than the car it replaces – evidence that increasing competition in the small car market benefits drivers. The redesigned 2012 Yaris...
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Move Your Money and Bank Transfer Day (Nov. 5) reach critical mass
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now If you’re an “average American” as the politicians like to call us, you may not be able to quit your job and camp in the street to show you’re simpatico with Occupy...
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Louis-Dreyfus joins array of groups opposing Keystone pipeline at White House...
From Green Right Now Reports Keystone XL pipeline protesters plan to encircle the White House at 2 p.m. on Sunday, in a second show of solidarity against the proposed 1,700-mile pipeline. The line will...
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This solar development should rattle Washington
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now This fall Obama Administration critics became epically riled about the failure of Solyndra, a Silicon Valley solar start up that sucked up a horrific pile of cash,...
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New Year’s Resolution: Optimism
Andrew Winston In the days right before this last, zen week of family time and no email, I read a few news items about the sorry state of our global commons. From the real costs of extreme weather ($52...
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Unusual pine beetle breeding could explain tree epidemic, study says
From Yale 360 A new study has found that some populations of mountain pine beetles are producing two generations of tree-killing offspring each year, a phenomenon that may help explain the scale of...
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U.S. startup develops process to convert plastic waste into oil
From Yale 360 A U.S. startup company says it has developed a technology to convert plastic waste into a highly refined, low-sulphur oil, an innovation company officials say could provide a domestic...
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Local fisheries management helps prevent overfishing, study says
From Yale 360 A new study says that co-management of fisheries at the local level is an effective strategy for curbing overfishing and preserving the world’s dwindling marine resources. In an analysis...
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NASA map depicts unusual warm stretch across much of U.S.
Click to enlarge NASA U.S. temperature anomalies, March, 2012 A new NASA map of temperature anomalies recorded across the U.S. in mid-March illustrates just how unusual the recent stretch of warm...
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Beekeepers urge U.S. ban on pesticide toxic to honeybees
From Yale 360 A coalition of commercial beekeepers and environmental groups is urging U.S. regulators to suspend the use of a pesticide they say may be contributing to a sharp decline in honeybee...
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Brazil policies helped drive decline in deforestation, report says
From Yale 360 Brazilian conservation policies were responsible for about half of the 70 percent decline in deforestation within the Amazon rainforest from 2005 to 2009, according to a new study. In an...
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New EPA rules will limit CO2 emissions from power plants
From Yale 360 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to impose a limit on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, a strict new regulation that could prevent conventional...
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Fracking of shale may impair carbon storage projects, study says
From Yale 360 The fracturing of shale rock formations associated with the drilling process known as fracking might undermine future attempts to store carbon dioxide underground, according to a new...
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Microbial fuel cell converts raw sewage into electricity
From Yale 360 U.S. scientists have developed a fuel cell capable of converting 13 percent of the energy found in sewage into electricity, a process that its developers say could also more efficiently...
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Scientists clone American elm trees that survived Dutch elm outbreaks
From Yale 360 Scientists say they have successfully cloned American elm trees that survived epidemics of Dutch elm disease, a fungal infection that has decimated the iconic tree species across eastern...
View ArticleRanchers’ attitudes vary toward programs designed to protect endangered...
From Green Right Now Reports Wildlife does not respect property boundaries. Therefore, protecting endangered species cannot be accomplished on government-owned lands alone. The cooperation and...
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New iPad app will help mariners avert right whale collisions
Click to enlarge NOAA Whale Alert app From Yale 360 A coalition of conservation groups has created an iPad/iPhone app capable of warning mariners when they are approaching areas of high risk for...
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NASA biofuel algae being grown inside floating plastic bags
From Yale 360 NASA has developed a system capable of growing large amounts of algae for biofuel production within a network of floating plastic bags, an innovation its developers say could ultimately...
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