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rt.com - The UN has been working on ways to end world hunger for decades, but their newest idea does not involve economics, politics, or even food: The organization is now advising people to eat more insect…

science.time.com - The end of last week saw the carbon concentrations in the atmosphere finally pass the 400-part-per-million threshold. That means carbon levels are higher now than they’ve been for at least 800,000 …

rawstory.com - More than half of common species of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 on current trends of carbon emissions, according to a climate study. Out…

usatoday.com - The Mauna Loa Observatory atmospheric research facility on the island of Hawaii. (Photo: Chris Stewart , AP) For the first time in recorded human history, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere…

guardian.co.uk - One-third of common land animals could see dramatic losses this century because of climate change, scientists predict. More than half of plants could be hit the same way as habitats become unsuitab…

greenpeace.org - Home What we do Climate change Energy [R]evolution Tweet the Energy [R]evolution The Energy [R]evolution will be Tweeted Background – May 7, 2013 An Energy Revolution is already happening. Here’s p…

spacedaily.com - While the impact of climate change on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet has been widely studied, a clear understanding of the key process of iceberg production has eluded researchers for many …

redorbit.com - [ Watch the Video: What is Biodiversity? ] | [ Watch the Video: What is Global Warming? ] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online If global temperatures increase by more than two degre…

usatoday.com - As intermittent energy sources like wind and solar expand, the U.S. government has picked Argonne National Laboratory as the “innovation hub” for energy storage such as batteries. Here, Argonne sci…

guardian.co.uk - The future of a globally warmed world has been revealed in a remote meteorite crater in Siberia, where lake sediments recorded the strikingly balmy climate of the Arctic during the last period when…

motherjones.com - Back in early 2012, the US Department of Agriculture seemed on the verge of approving new genetically modified crops from agrichemical giants Monsanto and Dow. The two agrichemical giants were push…

news.mongabay.com - Palm oil company violated RSPO standards, evicted from sustainability body mongabay.com May 13, 2013 print The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has evicted Indonesian palm oil giant Dutapa…

trust.org - LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New U.N. sustainable development goals must focus as much on reining in the over-consumption of the rich as on reducing the misery of the poor, say a group of …

bbc.co.uk - More than half of common plant species and a third of animals could see a serious decline in their habitat range because of climate change. New research suggests that biodiversity around the globe …

guardian.co.uk - Crucial negotiations in Brussels in the next few days will decide one of the thorniest European environmental issues of the past four decades – the wasteful practice of throwing millions of healthy…

guardian.co.uk - It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming. That is the stark warning of economist and cli…

guardian.co.uk - It might be regarded as some sort of sick joke that the Great Barrier Reef happens to nestle beside the heart of Australia’s fossil fuel export boom. When the coal ships leave the Queensland ports,…

blueandgreentomorrow.com - The study, by Ethical Consumer magazine and the Rainforest Foundation, was carried out in response to the latter’s report, Seeds of Destruction. The study stated that over 1m acres of rainforest in…

theecologist.org - Image of Matsés girl copyright Survival International. The Yaquerana River in the Amazon rainforest marks the border between Peru and Brazil, but to the Matsés tribe, who live on both sides of it, …

nytimes.com - Forget the term “dumb as dirt.” The complex soil ecosystem is highly evolved and sophisticated. It processes organic waste into soil. It filters and cleans much of the water we drink and the air we…

theorganicview.com - There has been a huge debate over the impact of Neonicotinoids, which are a class of systemic pesticides with a common mode of action that affects the central nervous system of insects, causing par…

reuters.com - (Reuters) – The Department of Agriculture said Friday it will extend its scrutiny of controversial proposed biotech crops developed by Dow AgroSciences, a unit of Dow Chemical, and Monsanto Co. aft…

pv-tech.org - PV manufacturer ReneSola is to supply solar modules to three community-scale solar power projects in Vermont developed by AllEarth Renewables. AllEarth Renewables will act as the main developer for…

guardian.co.uk - The people of Newtok, on the west coast of Alaska and about 400 miles south of the Bering Strait that separates the state from Russia, are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly…

trust.org - LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Natural disasters forced 32.4 million people from their homes in 2012, with climate and weather hazards such as floods and storms causing 98 percent of the dis…

insideclimatenews.org - Congressional lawmakers from both parties are taking a step to catalyze the nation’s clean energy economy: After 32 years of restricting a crucial investment tool to expanding fossil fuels, they’re…

grist.org - It’s springtime at the Point Reyes National Seashore, about an hour outside of San Francisco, and the cold wind whips off the sea and through the tall grass along the cliffs. Cows wander and graze …

motherjones.com - This interactive explainer originally appeared on the Guardian website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over the last couple weeks, scientists and environmentalists…

npr.org - Any gardener will tell you that compost is “black gold,” essential to cultivating vigorous, flavorful crops. But it always feels like there’s never enough, and its weight and bulk make it tough stu…

rt.com - The United States Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of biotech giant Monsanto, closing the door on a patent case that has pitted a smalltime farmer from Indiana against a titan of the agriculture…

ecowatch.com - [Editor’s note: Students from the State University of New York (SUNY) School of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY held their 2013 graduation ceremony yesterday. SUNY ESF’s motto is…

trust.org - RUSATIRA, Rwanda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Rwandan government has introduced a crop insurance scheme for farmers, backed up by satellite weather stations to monitor the precise impacts of …

thejakartapost.com - Following its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has added a new criterion, which will require companies to stop establishing new oil…

usatoday.com - Top two maps show how plant (left) and animal (right) species richness declines without mitigation, with the red areas showing the greatest declines. The lower four maps show how the declines can b…

insights.wri.org - Germany is in the midst of an unprecedented clean energy revolution. Thanks to the “Energiewende,” a strategy to revamp the national energy system, Germany aims to reduce its overall energy consump…

grist.org - Melting glaciers might have been the farthest thing from some lakeshore-dwelling Minnesotans’ and Manitobans’ minds these past few days. Fast-growing sheets of ice, marching steadily forward as if …

theoildrum.com - WTI Drops a Third Day; OPEC Output at Five-Month High WTI futures slid as much as 1.2 percent in New York, and London-traded Brent decreased for a second day. The Organization of Petroleum Exportin…

wwwp.dailyclimate.org - A worker prepares a field in Sangalkam, Senegal. A decades-long drought in Africa’s Sahel, followed by sporadic wet and dry years, has highlighted the need for better climate information for tens o…

democracynow.org - Scientists are warning the planet has now reached a grim climate milestone not seen for two or three million years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the amount of heat-trapp…

nature.com - Google/Maplink Imagery/NASA/Terrametrics/Kevin Gurney Big, ugly and emanating an incessant industrial hum, power plants belch clouds of steam and pollution as they generate electricity, the life-bl…

worldwildlife.org - 4) By 2050 nearly 70% of the world’s population will live in cities, more people than are alive today. This exodus is largely occurring in less developed regions with a rapidly scaling middle class…

grist.org - America’s wind energy boom is about to deliver the biggest economic investment in Iowa’s history — and blow a whole lot of cheap, clean electricity into the appliances and lightbulbs of the state’s…

earthtimes.org - Many companies face a common problem: What to do with by-product or waste left over from the manufacturing process. Smart firms are increasingly finding profitable ways of turning waste into assets…

treehugger.com - In the savannas of Zimbabwe, home to some of Africa’s most iconic wildlife, poaching of elephants is at an all-time high. But as their numbers continue to slip lower despite efforts to curb illegal…

latimes.com - Burning mostly coal and some natural gas, Dickerson emitted about 1.5 million tons of greenhouse gases in 2011, akin to the pollution of about 275,000 cars. How much longer Dickerson will run depen…

abc.net.au - Investment in fossil fuel companies is becoming increasingly unpopular for environment-minded citizens and astute investors alike. “THIS IS THE CHURCH taking direct action and showing that it’s not…

blogs.nature.com - The Obama Administration announced this week that it is committing US$200-million to create three new advanced-manufacturing innovation institutes, focusing on digital manufacturing, lightweight co…

support.worldwildlife.org - The findings of the Watershed Assessment lead me to believe that we should protect Bristol Bay and its economically, ecologically and socially important salmon fishery, rather than put this resourc…

amazonwatch.org - The government of Ecuador plans to auction off oil development rights within nearly eight million acres of primary forest and indigenous land that has been inhabited for centuries. These blocks thr…

bbc.co.uk - Wildlife charities are calling for tighter regulations to protect seabirds from a group of chemicals that caused hundreds of seabirds to be washed up off the south coast of England. The number of s…