Artist’s “Breathing Bike” a breath of fresh air in smoggy Beijing
Amid record-breaking levels of air pollution, a Beijing-based British artist has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect himself against the city’s foul air while making a political point at the same...
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Tar sands oil spills near Little Rock
Several homeowners in a Little Rock suburb were evacuated over the weekend after a pipeline spilled an estimated 2,000 barrels (84,000 gallons) of tar sands bitumen in their neighborhood. The oil,...
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Report predicts grim days ahead for forests as climate change increases...
From Green Right Now Reports Climate change will continue to worsen wildfires in the U.S., with the area burned each year expected to double by 2050, according to a report released this week by the...
View ArticleIs this the secret to ending trading in endangered species?
The Economist magazine reports that wildlife poaching is soaring. If bans and legal trading efforts do not stop it, the final hope for animals threatened with extinction may lie with consumers:
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What middle-size cities offer: Clean Air
From Green Right Now Reports The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report had some sobering news for many big metro areas last week. Not only do the central cities suffer from poor air...
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Let’s start treating climate change like the enemy
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now So now we’re at 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere — or 399.89, according to a revision of last week’s reading. Either way, we’ve reached a...
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U.S. gray wolves headed for disaster in 2013?
Update June 7, 2013: It’s official, the FWS has posted a new rule that would remove protections for gray wolves across the country, except for the Southwest’s Mexican wolf, which would be declared an...
View ArticleManchester neighborhood in Houston: Ground zero for fossil fuel emissions
From Green Right Now Reports Life can be risky along the Houston ship channel, where some poor neighborhoods have ended up blanketed by air pollution — from the highway, the ships and industrial...
View ArticleTexas residents question the integrity of Keystone XL pipe
From Green Right Now Reports After the Tar Sands Blockade, a group that’s trying to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, reported about welding issues on the newly installed project, Texas Public Citizen...
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Robert Redford calls on Obama to step up his climate game by clamping down on...
From Green Right Now Reports Robert Redford, actor, director, and conservationist, is calling on President Obama to follow through on climate change. Redford’s video appeal, launched this week by the...
View ArticleResearchers use solar-powered collar to track cheetahs’ hunting methods
Solar-and-battery powered tracking collars have given British researchers new insight into the hunting habits of the cheetah, one of the world’s swiftest predators. Jim Drury reports for Reuters:
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Nature in Danger: The African Elephant
By Bridget Kessler Green Right Now One of the only two non-extinct genera of the family Elephantidae, African elephants are the remnants of a long line of ancient and mysterious creatures such as...
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Distant earthquakes are triggering tremors at waste-injection sites in the...
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...
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Nature in Danger: The addax, a tough desert animal clings to existence
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, in...
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Rising temperatures, shrinking snowpack fuels Western wildfires
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 than...
View ArticleWater in China is an environmental nightmare
The Economist reports that in the past half-century, China has lost half its rivers. Today, much water is wasted or polluted, and China is turning to gargantuan engineering projects to solve its crisis.
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Hunters kill five wolves that likely lived in Yellowstone Park
Green Right Now Reports A gray wolf of the US Rocky Mountains. (Photo: National Park Service) Wolf bounty hunters in Wyoming may have crippled a wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park, where tourists...
View ArticleYale event examines climate change in New England and asks ‘what’s next’?
How will global warming affect New England in the 21st century and how is the region preparing for the coming changes? Global climate models all predict that the Northeastern United States may be...
View Article24 Hours of Climate Reality: Fossil fuel polluters are causing havoc and must...
Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Climate Reality, an online video/guest panel that examines how climate change is costing billions around the globe, kicked off today with segments covering North America and South...
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US wolves: Facing bullets and a hail of bureacracy
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now America’s wolves got a reprieve this week, though only a tiny one. The US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it is extending the public comment period on the...
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