Let the Kenyan government know destroying ecosystems for toxic sugar monocultures is unethical, and ask them to please follow their own environmental laws, and permanently cancel the projectTAKE ACTION! Kenya has recently approved plans to destroy some 20,000 acres of the globally important and ecol (more…)

Interesting new findings suggest the Amazon River powers tropical ocean’s carbon sinks [ark | more\ark] by transporting nutrients well beyond the continental shelf, pushing carbon capture into the deep ocean. Fed from river transported iron and phosphorus, organisms called diazotrophs pull nitrogen (more…)

A new report entitled A New Green Deal, issued by the New Economics Foundation, calls for sufficient and long-overdue policies [ark] to truly address related climate change, food and energy prices, and economic and financial crises. They recommend every home generate its own power, taxing oil and ga (more…)

Continued industrial forestry [search] in combination with surging greenhouse gas emissions [search] are forming a vicious cycle, whose climate/ecosystem positive feedbacks [search] are destroying more forests while releasing carbon. We know deforestation changes climate [ark | search], yet modern f (more…)

The extent to which wetlands are responsible for climate change [ark] is becoming dreadfully clear. A recent international conference reveals wetlands [search] — including marshes, peat bogs, river deltas, mangroves, tundra, lagoons and river flood plains — contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse g (more…)

Coal use is booming [ark], driven by growing populations demanding ever more consumption, which requires ever more energy. How pathetic that post-modern society, which fashions itself so trendy and enlightened, is forced to rely upon this primitive and dirty fuel. Indeed, “growing coal use threatens (more…)

The EPA finds climate change will have a “substantial” impact on human health [ark | search] in the coming decades; worsening wildfires, hurricanes, smog and summer heat waves. Perhaps then we should do more than talk abut the problem. Thankfully Mr. Gore is doing just that, and has unexpectedly cal (more…)

Over-population’s key role in causing climate change [ark] is again emerging as a central component of the debate on global warming solutions [search]. Too many people, many of which consume in dreadful excess while others live on $1 a day, is the root cause of virtually every global ecological cris (more…)

Encourage Mr. Gore to tell the full truth regarding the magnitude of actions required for climate change solutions, including advocating for an end to coal and ancient forest logging, and personal sacrifice including reduced consumptionTAKE ACTION! Al Gore is a global hero for the work he has done [ (more…)

The Rights and Resources Initiative provides some interesting cautionary advice in new reports, suggesting that rushing to pay for forest protection with carbon funds (REDD) will fail unless land rights [ark] in tropical countries, where much of the money is being directed, is addressed. And another (more…)