Photo via Time As you may know, everyone’s favorite airline-owning-yet-green-leaning hotshot British entrepreneur kick-started another initiative aimed at reducing carbon emissions last year. Richard Branson ‘s Carbon War Room was designed to connect industry leaders with scientists and sustainability consultants to help slash emissions efficiently and profitably. The famed investor spoke … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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photo: World Resources Institute via flickr. More on the ongoing efforts to re-establish the cheetah in India : The Hindu reports that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, just returned from a survey trip to a South African cheetah research center, has indicated that African cheetahs could be brought to Indian within three years. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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African Cheetahs to be Introduced Into India in Three Years

Image credit: UC Botanical Garden Few plants attract as much attention and adoration as orchids, which makes it surprising that a unique specimen—mislabeled Maxillaria croceorubens —went unnoticed in the UC Botanical Garden for nearly two decades. First collected in the 1980s by renowned orchidologist Donald Dod, the specimen was identified as a unique species thanks to DNA testing and analysis…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Decades Old Orchid Specimen Found to Be New Species

Image credit: T. Andrews /GNWT As temperatures rise in the Yukon’s Mackenzie Mountains, veritable treasure troves of ancient artifacts have been uncovered by melting ice. Now, high in the mountains of northern Canada, archeologists are racing to recover items from these sites that have been entombed in ice for thousands of years. But the ice, unfortunately, may be melting too fast . … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Melting Ice Uncovering Ancient Artifacts Faster than They Can Be Recovered

Photo via All American Patriots Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of the infamous News Corp. — the multinational company that owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the NY Post and more — has made noise in the past about greening up his company’s act. And now it’s official: By the end of this year, News Corp. will be carbon neutral if things go according to plan. Yup, that means that the company that owns Fox News will be one of the greenest big companies in the world. Interesting. And so I pose the question: wouldn’t the greener thing to do to yank your network’s irresponsible, fact… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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News Corp. Going Carbon Neutral, Fox News Still Going Nuts

photo: David Oliver via flickr Earlier in the week the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research called nation’s climate commitments “unambitious” and “paltry” , noting that we’re well on the way to seeing 3°C temperature rise by 2100. Now the Carbon Disclosure Project notes that the S&P 100 companies are even falling well short of meeting the weak emission reduction target of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 proposed by Pre… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Image via Wikipedia Commons Between Obama reinvigorating environmental policy in the US to the year-long run up and sudden fizz-out of climate talks Copenhagen, it’s been a long, strange ride for the planet since last Earth Day. I have a piece in Salon today that documents the 5 best — and 5 worst — environmental developments that played out during that time. Here’s the best and worst news the planet earth got last year . . …. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Best and Worst News for the Planet Since the Last Earth Day

photo: Bitteroot via flickr. Continuing the all volcanos all the time theme we’ve got going at the moment… Though it’s unlikely the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano will have any impact on global climate, and it’s equally unlikely that climate change is to blame for the eruption itself,

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Global Warming, Melting Ice Caps Could Help Trigger More Volcanic Eruptions

Expedition photo from Mission Blue courtesy James Duncan Davidson . On one side of the world, the hovering ash cloud is making it very, very difficult for millions travelers to get home and using up a lot of media air. Meanwhile on the other side of the globe, a group of over 100 adventurers keen on attending to the woes of the ocean are just getting over jet leg and taking stock, having raised a big bunch of bucks – $16.7 million – to help create more marine preserves. Mission Blue , the brainchild of TED Oceans… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Taking Time From Volcano Frenzy to Think About Oceans

Image Source: Plasmastik Dear Pablo: What impact will the volcano in Iceland have on climate change? The short answer is: none. While “global warming” is a measured variance that is caused by both human and natural contributions to the greenhouse effect, the term “climate change” refers specifically to “a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in add… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ask Pablo: What Impact Will The Volcano In Iceland Have On Climate Change?