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Photos from Russian Seal Death Camp
After Beijing's Cat Death Camps, here come the Seal version in Arkhangelsk, Russia.
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2008 Goldman Prize Lauds International Grassroots Environmentalists
Feliciano dos Santos accepts the Ouroboros trophy from Richard Goldman at the 2008 Goldman Prize ceremony held earlier this month in San Francisco. A second ceremony was held in Washington, D.C. The following post was written by Claire Alexander, vice
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Carbon Cap & Trade To Give Middle Eastern, State-Controlled Oil Companies Market Advantage
If oil companies like Shell reported the carbon footprint of oil from their operations in Nigeria, the numbers, in comparison to oil from other sources, could be shocking, even to SUV drivers. The relatively high carbon "footprint" of Nigerian oil
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Moscow Looks Like Sauron's Kingdom
Fans of the movies Lord of the Ring will immediately notice the similarities between the photo above and Sauron's kingdom. The picture above was taken by Alexander Petrenko and Andrew Maple wrote a little piece in English about Moscow's environmental
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Modu Cell Phone Changes Function with Jackets
At first glance, Modu looks to be just another gadget; a new cell phone that'll be in a toxic e-waste pile 18 months from now. But if Modu's developers can execute what they have planned, you'll never want to get rid of it.
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Fly Fast, Low and Fuel Efficient with Ground Effect
If we are looking for ways to burn less fuel high in the atmosphere, perhaps there are other ways to fly. The Focus 21 France relies on the "ground effect", where drag is significantly reduced when flying between 1-1/2 and 2 times the wingspan of the
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Japan Taking the Easy Way Out to Meet Kyoto Obligations
Could Japan be attempting to shirk its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol by purchasing lower-grade carbon credits? Having pledged to cut emissions to 6% below 1990 levels, the country is now racing to make ends meet as
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Oil Spill in Black Sea Strait Could Be Region's Worst Environmental Disaster
Some are already calling it the worst ecological disaster to hit the region in years; this past Sunday, as many as ten ships, including a Russian oil tanker, were sunk or run aground by a strong storm that pelted
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Great Rebuttal of a Terrible Coal Ad
The NYT's newly-minted blogger (and all-around excellent climate change journalist) Andrew Revkin follows up his earlier post exposing Peabody Energy's (laughable) ad campaign aimed at sliming Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for making the (right)
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Growing Significance Of Green As A Branding Characteristic
We're going to need our readers' help to understand these world-wide survey results. What's up with China and Spain for example?
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Ted Turner at the Clinton Global Initiative
Media mogul Ted Turner, in a working session on energy and climate change, said that global warming is the biggest thing to happen to us, short of getting bombed by the Russians. God bless 'im.
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Will Melting Mammoth Poo Speed Up Climate Change?
Though they have been extinct for around ten thousand years, some scientists are now claiming that their remains — of the "organic" variety — are coming back to haunt us. Sergei Zimov, chief scientist at the Russian Academy of Science's North Eastern
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Seeking Oil, Russia Claims North Pole
Russian geologists claim that they have found a link between Russia and the North pole in the form of the Lomonosov Ridge, a geological feature on the sea floor. Because of this, they claim 460,000 square miles of ocean as Russian territory. However,
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TreeHugger Radio: Claiming the Arctic Floor, Sled Dogs on Thin Ice, and the Price of Carbon Cuts
This week is all about climate change and its myriad ripple effects. Melting Arctic ice has opened up an international controversy over deep-sea land rights, and Russia will now make a bold move by planting its flag 14,000 feet below the surface. New
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Behouden Power Meter by Thomas J Owen
We have shown a number of energy management devices like the Kill-a-watt- most are utilitarian and without much thought to how they look. British designer Thomas James Owen proposes the Behouden wall clock/power display - it reads the electrical
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Kyoto in Action: Gazprom and Dresdner Announce Carbon Trading Venture
A joint venture between the Russian energy group Gazprom and Germany’s Dresdner Bank was announced today. By investing in clean-tech and efficiency projects in Russia and other Eastern European countries, the duo plans to rack up carbon credits that can
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Climate Skeptics In Siberian Self-Exile: The Tunguska Event Stikes Again!
Al Gore has so succeeded with his lead role on the Climate stage, we figured that the skeptics would have to suffer a year or two out of the limelight. But, we were stuck inside the North American box with that kind of thinking. The skeptics, it seems,
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In A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Star Flaws
You’ve probably encountered the news about the cosmonaut, who is earning millions of dollars for the Russian space agency by whacking a golf ball from the partially solar powered International Space Station (seen above). The stunt is being paid for by
