Climate Change

DURBAN UPDATE: Agreement in COP17 Climate Talks Will Likely Not Be Reached

DURBAN UPDATE: Agreement in COP17 Climate Talks Will Likely Not Be Reached

Representatives from over 190 countries across the world are still gathered in Durban, South Africa and though the conversation about the impending climate crisis continues, many have lost hope for an

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Discovery Channel Surrenders to Petition, Will Show Climate Change Episode of Frozen Planet

Discovery Channel Surrenders to Petition, Will Show Climate Change Episode of Frozen Planet

After recent rumors that the Discovery Channel was going to cut the last episode of their Frozen Planet series - the one that deals exclusively with climate change - people were outraged and an online

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State of California Shows up the Fed’s Emissions Targets With Impressively Ambitious AB32 Cap and Trade Program

State of California Shows up the Fed’s Emissions Targets With Impressively Ambitious AB32 Cap and Trade Program

In 2013 California will go where no U.S. state has gone before - it will start a comprehensive emissions limiting program by employing the mandatory use of carbon credits throughout the state for large

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COP17 DURBAN UPDATE: Current Pledges Will Cause a Global Temperature Change of 3.5° C

COP17 DURBAN UPDATE: Current Pledges Will Cause a Global Temperature Change of 3.5° C

As the nearly 200 representatives gathered at COP17 hurdle towards the end of the talks, researchers have released yet another study that says they are just not doing enough. A report issued during the UN

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The “Climate Train” is Greeted by Zulu Dancers and COP 17 Officials in Durban

The “Climate Train” is Greeted by Zulu Dancers and COP 17 Officials in Durban

The train has already stopped in 17 cities and towns across South Africa to raise awareness about the importance of reducing our carbon footprint - just in time for the 17th climate change conference

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VIDEO: See the 50-foot Long Titanoboa Mechanical Robot Snake Chase a Giant Spider

VIDEO: See the 50-foot Long Titanoboa Mechanical Robot Snake Chase a Giant Spider

60 million years ago the Earth's climate was much warmer than it is now -- due to natural climate change -- which allowed cold-blooded snakes like the Titanoboa to grow to mammoth proportions. The group

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World’s Largest Chunk of Manmade Ice to Cool Mongolia’s Capital City!

World’s Largest Chunk of Manmade Ice to Cool Mongolia’s Capital City!

Image: “L.A. Ice” by Victor Hadjikyriacou, produced for Unit 11 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, part of last year’s Landscape Futures Super-Workshop via BLDGBLOG Mongolia seems

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Energy Harvesting Eco-leaf Shade Doubles as a Light Source at Night

Energy Harvesting Eco-leaf Shade Doubles as a Light Source at Night

The Eco-leaf is a solar shade concept that will lower your carbon footprint and brighten your living room. Eco-leaf's unique energy harvesting design integrates proven-technologies like solar, E ink, and

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Irreversible Climate Change Will Occur in 5 Years if Major Infrastructure is Not Changed

Irreversible Climate Change Will Occur in 5 Years if Major Infrastructure is Not Changed

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the world is currently backing itself into a corner where irreversible climate change will most likely occur in just five years. The Agency -- an

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Haunting Sculptures Shaped Like Inuit Dog Sleds Call Attention to Climate Change

Haunting Sculptures Shaped Like Inuit Dog Sleds Call Attention to Climate Change

The Inuit have been running dog sleds across the vast white north to hunt and travel for hundreds of years, but climate change and shrinking ice puts that practice into serious jeopardy. The same man who

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San Francisco to Turn Old Limo Terminal Into a Sea Lion-Friendly Waterfront Park

San Francisco to Turn Old Limo Terminal Into a Sea Lion-Friendly Waterfront Park

The biologically sound wetland remediation project at Pier 27 demonstrates the port's commitment to the stewardship of waterfront historic resources. The project also has the potential to be a harbinger

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SNOW IN NYC! East Coast Gets Hit By Unexpected October Snowstorm!

SNOW IN NYC! East Coast Gets Hit By Unexpected October Snowstorm!

It's snowing in New York City right now! The whole Atlantic seaboard is expecting to get hit with a major snow storm from midday Saturday until Sunday morning, which could drop up to 8 inches of snow in

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Lead Climate Change Skeptic Scientist Richard Muller Admits Global Warming is Real

Lead Climate Change Skeptic Scientist Richard Muller Admits Global Warming is Real

Climate change naysayers may now have to face the writing on the green wall, as lead skeptic scientist Richard Muller recently changed his mind and now believes that global warming is real. Last week,

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Coke and World Wildlife Fund Turn Classic Red Soda Cans White in Honor of Endangered Polar Bears

Coke and World Wildlife Fund Turn Classic Red Soda Cans White in Honor of Endangered Polar Bears

You know it's the holidays when you begin to see those adorable Coca-Cola polar bears all over the place, but with the catastrophic effects of global warming, real life polar bears are not nearly as

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How To Prepare Your Bicycle For Safe Riding in Cold Weather

How To Prepare Your Bicycle For Safe Riding in Cold Weather

1. Visibility Front and rear lights are crucial year round, but even more so in winter. The sun is setting earlier in the northern hemisphere, so even if you only use your bike for the commute to work,

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Solar Electric Light Fund Shines a Ray of Hope on Haiti

Solar Electric Light Fund Shines a Ray of Hope on Haiti

The Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) has installed 100 solar-powered street lamps in Haitian refugee camps Pétionville and Caradeux. Almost two years after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti taking

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Gigantic Melting Vitruvian Man Calls Attention to Vanishing Arctic Sea Ice

Gigantic Melting Vitruvian Man Calls Attention to Vanishing Arctic Sea Ice

The Vitruvian Man is typically used as a symbol of the human relationship to geometry, to proportion, and to civilization. So Greenpeace decided to enlist artist John Quigley to install this massive

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China’s Coal-Powered Grid Negates the Green Benefits of Electric Vehicles

China’s Coal-Powered Grid Negates the Green Benefits of Electric Vehicles

If any other country in the world was to announce plans to get 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015, it would be a massive environmental victory -- except in China. Despite the Chinese

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Europeans Are More Worried About the Environment Than the Economic Crisis

Europeans Are More Worried About the Environment Than the Economic Crisis

A new poll indicates that two out of three Europeans see climate change as a more serious problem than the global economic crisis. Sixty-eight percent of those polled saw climate change as a very serious

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World’s Largest Solar Bridge Crosses The River Thames in London

World’s Largest Solar Bridge Crosses The River Thames in London

Over 100 bridges, 20 tunnels, and six public ferries cross the River Thames, but only Blackfriars will shine in photovoltaic glory. Solarcentury is working in conjunction with other public transportation

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Artful Renovation Turns San Francisco’s Historic Pier 24 Into Enormous Photography Gallery

Artful Renovation Turns San Francisco’s Historic Pier 24 Into Enormous Photography Gallery

The building is designated in the National Register, so its renovation had to preserve the site's historic architectural integrity. Envelope a+d responded to this challenge with a design that embraces the

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Appalachian State’s Solar Homestead Brings Adaptability and Independent Living to the 2011 Solar Decathlon

Appalachian State’s Solar Homestead Brings Adaptability and Independent Living to the 2011 Solar Decathlon

A limited budget has made adaptability a top theme this year and The Solar Homestead exemplifies this facet of sustainable design better than most.  A half-bath, outdoor shower and outdoor kitchen can be

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NASA Announces Plans to Launch the Largest Solar Sail Ever Created

NASA Announces Plans to Launch the Largest Solar Sail Ever Created

Solar activity sometimes causes disturbances through massive flares, but the energy can also be used to increase in-space propulsion capability - harnessing solar power with solar sails could expand

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Climate Scientists Demand That Cartographers “Refreeze Greenland” in Their Maps

Climate Scientists Demand That Cartographers “Refreeze Greenland” in Their Maps

A fantastic fight recently broke out between the publishers of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World and climate scientists worldwide when the most recent publication of the atlas depicted that 15%

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CarbFix: Revolutionary Tech Could Trap CO2 Forever by Turning It Into Harmless Rock

CarbFix: Revolutionary Tech Could Trap CO2 Forever by Turning It Into Harmless Rock

Iceland is well know for its use of renewable energy, particularly geothermal energy, but soon the country could be combating climate change in a very different, but equally innovative way. Sometime this

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Iranian Authorities Arrest Saltwater Lake Environmental Protesters

Iranian Authorities Arrest Saltwater Lake Environmental Protesters

People all around the world have protested against climate change and symptoms of global warming such as melting glaciers, drought and endangered animals. Governments around the world react to such

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SKhy Bus Is A Carbon-Negative Solar & Wastewater Fueled Shuttle Bus Of The Future

SKhy Bus Is A Carbon-Negative Solar & Wastewater Fueled Shuttle Bus Of The Future

Portuguese designer Alan Monteiro has illustrated his vision of green transportation: an aerodynamic carbon swallowing, wastewater recycling, oxygen releasing, unmanned shuttle bus concept called SKhy.

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The “Big Kahuna”: Another Giant Piece of Glacier Set to Break Off Rendering Researchers “Speechless”

The “Big Kahuna”: Another Giant Piece of Glacier Set to Break Off Rendering Researchers “Speechless”

Don't believe that climate change is real? This time last year, a piece of ice 4 times the size of Manhattan broke off the Petermann Glacier in Greenland, spurring a congressional hearing on climate

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Reaction Housing System: A Rapid Response Flat-Pak Emergency Shelter

Reaction Housing System: A Rapid Response Flat-Pak Emergency Shelter

The main component of the Reaction Housing System is its Exo housing unit. The Exo is manufactured in two, easy to assemble pieces that can be fixed as standard living, office, individual, double door,

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