New Household Cleaners Reduces Packaging

A new line of household cleaners by Bumgartens will be sold in tablet form, requiring 75 percent less packaging and reducing the impact of shipping because the products have 85 percent less “water weight.”

Original post: 
New Household Cleaners Reduces Packaging

Great Lakes wolves returning to endangered list

The federal government on Monday agreed to put gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region back on the endangered species list — at least temporarily.

View original post here: 
Great Lakes wolves returning to endangered list

Predatory Dingoes Promote Diversity

Although perceived as invasive predators, dingoes actually protect biodiversity.

Originally posted here:
Predatory Dingoes Promote Diversity

"Two Degrees" of Separation: Obama Needs to Outline his Yardstick on Global Warming

In the midst of the fight of our lives (the House floor debate on the American Clean Energy and Security Act), a coalition of major U.S. groups called for the Obama Administration to outline its “yardstick” on global warming

Go here to see the original: 
"Two Degrees" of Separation: Obama Needs to Outline his Yardstick on Global Warming

EPA proposes new one-hour NO2 standard in an effort to reduce respiratory illnesses

For the first time in more than 35 years, EPA has proposed to strengthen the nation’s nitrogen dioxide (NO2) air quality standard that protects public health.

More:
EPA proposes new one-hour NO2 standard in an effort to reduce respiratory illnesses

New Measures to Aid Solar on Public Lands

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced measures on Monday to hasten the development of solar energy on public lands in six western states. Salazar expects to have 13 commercial-scale projects with solar power arrays under construction by the end of 2010.

Read the original here:
New Measures to Aid Solar on Public Lands

Increasing Dust Accelerates Mountain Snowmelt

Dust in the wind is rewriting the cycle of life in the mountains. Throughout memory the warmth of spring has begun the mountain snowmelt, bringing life-giving water to greening plants so they can blossom and renew their species. But now, scientists say, the timing is being thrown off by desert dust stirred as global warming dries larger areas and human activity increases in those regions

Read the original:
Increasing Dust Accelerates Mountain Snowmelt

Obama against penalties on those not accepting pollution limits

US President Barack Obama on Sunday expressed his opposition to a provision in the clean energy bill that would impose trade penalties on countries that do not accept limits on global warming pollution, The New York Times reported late Sunday.

Go here to read the rest:
Obama against penalties on those not accepting pollution limits

It’s Now Legal to Catch a Raindrop in Colorado

For the first time since territorial days, rain will be free for the catching here, as more and more thirsty states part ways with one of the most entrenched codes of the West.

Here is the original post:
It’s Now Legal to Catch a Raindrop in Colorado

Crops face toxic timebomb in warmer world: study

Staples such as cassava on which millions of people depend become more toxic and produce much smaller yields in a world with higher carbon dioxide levels and more drought.

More here:
Crops face toxic timebomb in warmer world: study

Next Page »