New study shows Antarctica is warming: and we’re to blame. Will that convert any doubters about a human cause of climate change?

Coca-Cola is the latest American brand working to improve its environmental credentials with a sweeping new program that pledges to improve water efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide emissions throughout its massive global system.

Carbon market traders are worried about what will happen to many projects beyond 2012, when the current Kyoto Protocol runs out.

Danish writer Bjorn Lomborg says that the world should hear about a slight decline in sea levels in the past 2 years — but Stuart Gaffin argues that it is deceptive to suggest that sea levels have stopped rising.

This week, Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Cascade Engineering launched a wind turbine aimed at residential and business customers. According to Jessica Lehti, the company’s senior sales and marketing manager, the Swift Wind Turbine is as soft as a whisper and fits on the side of buildings, making it “more zoning compliant” for urban and suburban settings.

Grass has been growing on the backs of two sheep in Norway — have this ever happened before?

New ways to calculate carbon dioxide emissions are emerging; some of them using citizens’ mobile phones

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s dog (below) isn’t the only creature getting a hi-tech tracking device…scientists can now even follow tiny fish in the depths of the ocean.
Scientists in a Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking project have implanted electronic tags (left) costing $250 each into what they call ’hot dog sized’ juvenile salmon, about 15 cms long, in rivers in the Rocky Mountains.
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Does it make sense to look for short-cut solutions to global warming, like fertilising the seas to soak up greenhouse gases or place mirrors in the sky to block the sun?

South Africa’s Optimal Energy unveils its Joule electric car…bloggers were among the first to notice.

 Kenyan blogger Juliana Rotich is the editor of Green Global Voices, which monitors citizen media in the developing world, and is a regular contributor to this page. ThomsonReuters is not responsible for the content – the views are the author’s alone.
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EBay bans ivory sales — should the world follow suit?

What’s nature worth? The financial crisis may be a chance to re-think the usual view that most of it’s free.

Change to an energy-saving lightbulb – create a job?
Energy efficiency efforts in California over the past three decades have created or saved 1.5 million jobs and added $45 billion to payrolls in the state, according to a report from David Roland-Holst of the Center for Energy, Resources and Economic Sustainability at the University of [...]

Tropical cyclones may help to slow global warming — by washing vegetation out to sea and burying it