Hi everyone Well again it’s been a week of NO time left! – I hope we don’t run out of time to secure a safe future for those we care about. The environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this week has captured the headlines and brought back some memories so we’ll start with  Key [...]

By Bob Williamson – Greenhouse Neutral Foundation On September 1 1983 I was the Personnel and Industrial Relations Manager of Keydril who operated the Key Biscayne. I remember the day well!   As you’ll read below offshore drilling operations for oil are always likely to have unforseen environmental outcomes. The recent disaster in the Gulf [...]

From John Cook Sceptical Science I’m talking at the University of Queensland next week so I thought I might use Skeptical Science to test-drive a new visual metaphor. Sometimes in the climate debate, we get a bit lost in the data and statistical analysis, forgetting the sheer scale of the impact we’re having on our [...]

Warmer oceans are thawing methane deposits, adding more of the greenhouse gas to the atmosphere A large amount of methane is bubbling up from the ocean floor east of Siberia at a surprising rate and could accelerate climate change, researchers said yesterday. The gas is bubbling up from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf because warming [...]

New sediment cores from an Antarctic research drilling program suggest that the southernmost continent has had a more dynamic history than previously suspected ERICE, Italy—If you think of Earth’s poles as fraternal twins, the Arctic has been the wild one in recent years, while the Antarctic has been a steady plodder. Withered by summer heat, [...]

A proposed carbon capture and storage cluster at Kingsnorth in Kent. Photograph: EON A new research paper from American academics is threatening to blow a hole in growing political support for carbon capture and storage as a weapon in the fight against global warming. The document from Houston University claims that governments wanting to use [...]

This analysis & posting by Michael Graham Richard of TreeHugger shows us where we are headed with our addiction to burning fossil carbon. Total World Coal Consumption in 2008: 7,238,207,000 Short Tons! When it comes to global warming and air pollution, coal is the number one enemy. We were curious to know which countries burned [...]

The world’s governments will not meet their internationally-agreed target of curbing the loss of species and nature by 2010, a major study has confirmed. Virtually all species and ecosystems show continued decline, while pressures on nature are increasing, it concludes. Published in the journal Science, the study confirms what conservationists have known for several years. [...]

In another display of the sea change that has occurred at the US Environmental Protection Agency under the current administration, a new report was issued yesterday regarding indicators of climate change. The report, entitled “Climate Change Indicators in the United States,” measures 24 separate indicators showing how climate change affects the health and environment of [...]

By Jaymi Heimbuch, Planet Green This gives hope to those of us with even the most stick-in-the-mud friends and relatives who we just can’t seem to get to go green. If a dog can do it, so can every human. One TreeHugger reader, Puglet, shows that even puppies can learn to recycle, save water, and [...]