Should Obama Send His Science Team on a National Campaign to Explain Climate Science?

Photo via LimJunYing It’s been a couple months of seriously bad PR for climate science , both due to unfortunate errors made by scientists and (okay, mostly) a well-funded noise machine intent on preserving the status quo at any cost. So how can climate scientists dig themselves out of the negative publicity trench and help reeducate the public on the dangers of climate change? The

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World’s Scientists to Carry Out Independent Review of IPCC

Photo via FreeSpeech Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so. The Secretary General for the UN said that scientists from academies around the world will take part in the review, which will be headed by the Inter-Academy Council–and it will be conducted completely independently of the United Nations. ..

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KAIST debuts OLEV train for public transportation in Gwacheon City

Eco Factor: Zero-emission transport system based on OLEV technology.

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Humans Pushing Extinction Rates Up Faster Than Species Can Evolve – Will Hit 10,000x Historic Rates

photo: Kevin Walsh via flickr. You’ve probably heard the stat that extinction rates are currently somewhere between 100-1000 times historic levels, which is bad enough, but now the Guardian reports the head of the Species Survival Commission for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature says that we’ve “almost certainly” crossed the thresho..

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Robot With Laser Vision Sorts Plastics, Boosts Recycling

Photo via Osaka University Plastic recycling is often a conundrum. Sorting at home can be iffy, since consumers don’t always know what’s recyclable and what’s not in their area, and some plastic types like bioplastics aren’t easily discernible, or recyclable at all. This keeps recycling rates in many areas low

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The Nation Magazine Rips US eNGOs. Are They Right?

There’s a rift among some of the environmental groups almost as wide as the cracks in melting Arctic sea ice caused by climate change.

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Even More Methane Found Leaking From Arctic Seafloor

Scientists took sonar measurements to record clouds of methane bubbles rising from the seafloor. Photo: Igor Semiletov, University of Alaska More evidence is emerging that methane previously trapped in the permafrost below the Arctic sea is starting to be released into the oceans and potentially into the atmosphere.

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More Evidence Palm Oil Plantations Are Bad for Biodiversity: Have Two-Thirds Lower Ant Species Than Forests

photo: kodok via flickr. One more on the fact that, despite EU proposals to the contrary, palm oil plantations are not the same as forest, having far lower levels of biodiversity: Mongabay points out new research in the journal Basic and Applied Ecology shows that the number of ant species on plantations is about one-third of those found in intact areas:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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More Evidence Palm Oil Plantations Are Bad for Biodiversity: Have Two-Thirds Lower Ant Species Than Forests

Green Eyes On: LIFE, As Seen Through the Eyes of Discovery

Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery’s 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. Discovery Channel launches their newest series, another provocative look at the goings-on on our beautiful planet. Will it be as successful as Planet Earth

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Crazy Tsunami Maps From NOAA – And You Thought the Recent Chile Earthquake Was Bad…

The 2010 Chile tsunami (above) and the 1960 one (below).

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