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Survey shows a majority of Americans support Obama’s climate action plan 19 Jul 2013 | 02:24 am
From Green Right Now Reports A poll of Americans reveals that a majority support President Obama’s plan to attack climate change by cracking down on carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power pla...
Arborists hit the road in New York to promote trees 18 Jul 2013 | 07:44 pm
From Green Right Now Reports A tree planting at the 2012 tour. Nearly 100 bicyclists, most of them arborists and forestry experts, will ride around Lake Ontario next week to spread the message that ...
George Clooney, Nespresso push African coffee ethics 17 Jul 2013 | 02:09 am
Bloomberg News’ Thomas Mulier reports on the alliance of Nespresso and actor George Clooney as the company ads him to its coffee ethics board and introduces a sustainability program in Africa. He spea...
Billionaire Tom Steyer says Keystone XL Pipeline to raise gas prices 17 Jul 2013 | 01:40 am
Billionaire Tom Steyer, founder of Farallon Capital Management LLC, talks about today’s release of a report by the non-profit organization Consumer Watchdog that says completion of TransCanada Corp.’s...
Six women climb London’s ‘Shard’ skyscraper to protest Shell’s planned arctic drilling 13 Jul 2013 | 12:03 am
From Green Right Now Reports Six women climbed London’s tallest building, the glitzy, 310-meter-tall “Shard,” on Thursday to protest Shell Oil’s plans to drill in the Arctic. Greenpeace, known for s...
Rising temperatures, shrinking snowpack fuels Western wildfires 12 Jul 2013 | 11:45 pm
Rising Temps, Shrinking Snowpack Fuel Western Wildfires (via Climate Central) By Alyson Kenward Follow @alysonkenward Wildfire trends in the West are clear: there are more large fires burning now tha...
Scientists look to the ocean as fuel of the future 12 Jul 2013 | 08:25 pm
If the rising price of oil is hurting your budget, don’t worry. Scientists in Australia have found a way to turn seawater into fuel. Lester Ranby has more in this Reuters report:
Nature in Danger: The addax, a tough desert animal clings to existence 12 Jul 2013 | 04:02 am
By Bridget Kessler Green Right Now The addax — only about 300 remain in the wild. (Photo: ConservationCenters.org.) The desert-dwelling addax is an antelope found in small pockets in North Africa, ...
Distant earthquakes are triggering tremors at waste-injection sites in the U.S., study finds 12 Jul 2013 | 12:32 am
From Green Right Now Reports Earthquake that damaged Prague, OK, in 2010 may have been triggered by the Chilean earthquake months earlier. In a weird twist of global interconnectedness that only geo...
Sun-dried tomatoes in just one day (almost) 11 Jul 2013 | 07:48 pm
From Green Right Now Reports When the weather gets hot, we like to look for the easiest way to get things done and also for ways to harness that broiling sun, whether it be by growing watermelons or ...
