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Media
Discovery Channel's 'Green: The New Red, White and Blue' Brings Viewers Inside America's Energy Revolution (Yahoo Finance, Apr. 16)
L.A. Times wins Pulitzer Prize for 'Altered Oceans' project (L.A. Times, Apr. 16)
Discovery Communications Announces Programming Slate in Celebration of Mother Earth This Earth Day (Yahoo Finance, Apr. 16)
Author Promotes Lifestyle Changes in Global Warming Fight ["Deep Economy" author Bill McKibben] (PBS, Apr. 13)
Now Cancer-Free, NBC News Correspondent Anne Thompson Takes on Environmental Beat (ENN/AP, Apr. 12)
Green Living & Social Trends
Going native with plants: A new-old direction for water conservation (Christian Science Monitor, Apr. 18)
Who's cool in the great celebrity green rush? (Independent, Apr. 17)
Travel Light: How to Get Around While Making Less CO2 (Slate, Apr. 16)
Welcome to the New and Improved Slate Green Challenge (Slate Apr. 16)
Climate Change Scenarios Scare, and Motivate, Kids (Washington Post, Apr. 16) Free site registration required
Paying to absolve the sin of emissions [Carbon credits] (San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 15)
Can we change our lives to save the planet? (Seattle Times, Apr. 15)
A greener planet begins under the kitchen sink (Christian Science Monitor, Apr. 12)
To Fight Global Warming, Some Hang a Clothesline (N.Y. Times, Apr. 12) Free site registration required
Business & Economy
Office Depot Celebrates Earth Day with Ten Tips for A Greener Worklife and New Green Website (CSRwire, Apr. 18)
Dow Joins United States Climate Action Partnership (CSRwire, Apr. 17)
Green Venture Capital Lures Wealthy Clients (Planet Ark/Reuters, Apr. 17)
Yahoo! to Go Carbon Neutral in 2007 (GreenBiz, Apr. 17)
Boeing recycling practices nets $60 million (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Apr. 17)
Home Depot to Display an Environmental Label (N.Y. Times, Apr. 17) Free site registration required
Oil Giant Backs Mandatory GHG Emissions Cuts (GreenBiz/Edie, Apr. 16)
Climate change takes centre stage in Singapore [Global Business Summit for the Environment] (Yahoo News/AFP, Apr. 16)
Nissan, NEC To Produce Batteries for Ecologically Friendly Vehicles (ENN/AP, Apr. 13)
Clean Appeal [Marketing a green business] (Newsweek, Apr. 12)
Xerox Redesigns Products for Lower Energy Use, Meeting Tough New EPA ENERGY STAR Criteria (CSRwire, Apr. 12)
Commentary
Celebrity Gasbags [Ynintended consequences of the celebrity global warming movement] (Weekly Standard, Apr. 17)
China's Signals on Warming (N.Y. Times, Apr. 16) Free site registration required
Thomas L. Friedman: The power of green (International Herald Tribune, Apr. 15)
For Manatees' Sake, Don't Relax Vigilance (St. Petersburg Times, Apr. 15)
Two shades of green [Gore works with guilt, Schwarzenegger with passion. The world needs both.] (L.A. Times, Apr. 15)
Environmentally friendly buildings also make economic sense (Columbus Dispatch, Apr. 13)
Editorial: Nowhere to turn for climate change deniers (New Scientist, Apr. 12)
Terrible hidden costs of ethanol production (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Apr. 12)
Green Light Districts [Opposes government-mandated CFL use] (OpinionJournal, Apr. 12)
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
China criticised for 'tiger wine' (BBC News, Apr. 18)
Mauritius Turns Wildlife Clock Back 400 Years (ENN/Reuters, Apr. 18)
Florida may need to tap Everglades, officials say (L.A. Times, Apr. 17)
8 Million Sharks Killed Accidentally off Africa Yearly (National Geographic News, Apr. 17)
Climate Change Could Trigger Boom And Bust Population Cycles Leading To Extinction (TerraDaily/SPX, Apr. 17)
No-Fishing Zones in Tropics Yield Fast Payoffs for Reefs (N.Y. Times, Apr. 17) Free site registration required
Frog, Lizard Extinctions Caused by Climate, Not Fungus, Study Suggests (National Geographic News, Apr. 17)
Worries for Bald Eagles Leaving Endangered List (Planet Ark/Reuters, Apr. 16)
Iron Traps, Pits Haunt India's Rare Asiatic Lions (ENN/Reuters, Apr. 16)
California Adopts First Phase of Ocean Preserves (N.Y. Times, Apr. 15) Free site registration required
Interior Reviewed Studies Weighing Risks to Polar Bear (Washington Post, Apr. 15) Free site registration required
Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? (Independent, Apr. 15)
The long road to ruin for the Amazon forest (Observer, Apr. 15)
Northern Aral Sea recovering (news@nature.com, Apr. 12)
Air travel threatens biodiversity (Telegraph, Apr. 11)
Greenpeace Spotlights Rainforest Damage In DRC [Congo] (TerraDaily/AFP, Apr. 11)
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Public Opinion & Surveys
Americans Report Increased Environmental Consciousness and Expectation That Companies Will Take Action (CSRwire, Apr. 17)
New Zealanders' views on climate change and related policy options (ShapeNZ, Apr. 13)
Green Building
LAX Gets Green Facelift (Business Week, Apr. 13)
Government
EPA Proposing Limits to Lawnmower Emissions To Stem Pollution (ENN/AP, Apr. 18)
Want E.P.A. Hotel and Convention Center Business? Be a Bit Greener (N.Y. Times, Apr. 18) Free site registration required
Senators Seek to Cut US Gasoline Use, Save Energy (Planet Ark/Reuters, Apr. 18)
EPA Chief Says Bush Climate Policy Working (ENN/AP, Apr. 17)
National Governors Association Launches Energy Summit (Salt Lake Tribune, Apr. 16)
U.S. 1990-2005 greenhouse gas emissions up 16 pct (Yahoo News/Reuers, Apr. 16)
US generals urge climate action (BBC News, Apr. 15)
White House Pulls Nomination to Top EPA Air Post (ENN/Reuters, Apr. 12)
Schwarzenegger: Make climate hip (BBC News, Apr. 11)
International
Security Council tackles climate change (Yahoo News/AP, Apr. 18)
China Rejects Caps, Aims to Cut "Carbon Intensity" (Planet Ark/Reuters, Apr. 17)
U.S. Rejects Call for Tougher U.N. Environment Role (ENN/Reuters, Apr. 17)
Australian States Commit to Greenhouse Cuts (Planet Ark/Reuters, Apr. 16)
Italy And Japan Say G8 To Focus On Africa And Global Warming (TerraDaily/AFP, Apr. 16)
China's economy reaching environmental limits (Yahoo News/AFP, Apr. 15)
Blair and Merkel lean on Bush to join battle against climate change (Independent, Apr. 15)
India set to check environmental pulse (news@nature.com, Apr. 12)
Sweden to Spend US$72 Million on North and Baltic Sea Environment (ENN/AP, Apr. 12)
Global warming turns up political heat in Australia (Yahoo News/AFP, Apr. 12)
Climate Change
Melting Himalayan Glaciers Pose Security Risk, UNEP Says (ENN/Reuters, Apr. 17)
Decades needed to tell whether ocean currents are slowing (news@nature, Apr. 17)
UN attacks climate change as threat to peace (International Herald Tribune/AP, Apr. 17)
Researchers debate warming, hurricanes (Yahoo News/AP, Apr. 17)
Africa must adapt to soaring temperatures: UN scientists (Yahoo News/AFP, Apr. 17)
'Climate Justice' Demanded in Washington [Protests by global anti-poverty and religious leaders] (Yahoo News/OneWorld, Apr. 17)
Warming Predicted to Take Severe Toll on U.S. (Washington Post, Apr. 17) Free site registration required
Global warming health effects (San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 17)
Far North Feels Worst Effects of Warming (ENN/AP, Apr. 16)
New U.S. report repeats warning on warmer climate [Commissioned by Center for Naval Analyses] (International Herald Tribune, Apr. 16)
In US Earth Day Prelude, Calls for Greenhouse Gas Cuts (Planet Ark/Reuters, Apr. 16)
Transport seen surging, damaging climate: U.N. draft (Yahoo News/Reuters, Apr. 12)
Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage (UNESCO, Apr.)
Energy
Ethanol cars may not be healthier (BBC News, Apr. 18)
A Renewed Push for Ethanol, Without the Corn (N.Y. Times, Apr. 17) Free site registration required
ConocoPhillips, Tyson: Fuel From Fat (Time, Apr. 16)
Financially, Solar Power for the Home Is a Tough Sell (N.Y. Times, Apr. 14) Free site registration required
Chevron and Weyerhaeuser Team Up for Biofuels Alliance (GreenBiz, Apr. 13)
3D Solar Cells Boost Efficiency And Reduce Size (SolarDaily, Apr. 13)
Top Ten US City Use of Renewable Energy (SustainLane, Apr.)
Pollution
New Mexico Seeks to Clean Up Santa Fe River (NPR, Apr. 17)
Yangtze pollution 'irreversible' (BBC News, Apr. 16)
Development Waste Fouls Vietnam's Rivers, Report Says (ENN/Reuters, Apr. 13)
States Seek Tightening of Standards for Mercury (N.Y. Times, Apr. 12) Free site registration required
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