Polar bears are disappearing faster, according to a federal report released today–five weeks after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar decided not to use the plight of the polar bear to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in the Lower 48 states.
It’s bad…
June 2009
Let’s say you’re a Republican, reading your internets. What would it mean to you to read this sentence, coming from the Republican Party: “Based on the allowance allocation formula in H.R. 2454 for electricity consumers, the red states will not have…
Only wimps shoot wolves from helicopters. Real politicians use their bare hands, ninjutsu stealth, and stinging speed to kill wildlife.
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The late Friday memorandum of the week was issued by the White House Press Office at 3 p.m. It orders the creation of an Ocean Policy Task Force charged with drafting a national policy toward the oceans, coasts and Great Lakes. Media coverage has…
We should call the coming cataclysm not global warming, not climate change, but “deteriorating atmosphere,” according to a study released yesterday by the non-profit public relations firm EcoAmerica. What then, should we call the people who refute…
Cars run on so many things these days that it seems old hat for cars to run on restaurant grease. They run on water. They run on corn. They run on prairie grasses. They run on algae. They run on old telephone poles. As far as I’m concerned, San…
New York just paid $150 million for something Chicago has acquired through neglect: a green space that winds through the city on the viaduct of an abandoned elevated railway:
A different kind of park opens Tuesday in New York City. The High Line is…
There was lots of cheer from Europe for the weekend, after the EU and UK both announced Friday they are on track to cut greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels and below the levels to which they committed via the Kyoto Protocol.
But now it’s…
Turns out human men vary in ways other than color of necktie, according to CNN, which revealed its discovery Sunday after noticing in its offices a male intern who seemed vulnerable:
Some guys still try to be manly and try to be like strong and…
As the Google Trends graph shows, many Americans learned a new phrase today. But after so many decades of meddling in the Middle East, why did it take so many of us so long to learn this disarming way to say hello?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you very…
