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Media
Climate change as seen through the eyes of the world's top cartoonists (Guardian, July 23)
Online Video Site Spreads the Green Word (ENN/Earth 911, July 22)
Climate documentary 'broke rules' (BBC News, July 21)
E-Waste Animated Video Wins Film Festival Award (ENN/Earth 911, July 21)
Appealing to Bloggers’ Influence, Gore Asks for Help in Promoting Energy Challenge (N.Y. Times, July 20) Free site registration required
Ad Council Collaborates with U.S. Conservation Agencies to Promote Ocean Awareness (PR Newswire, July 7)
Green Living & Social Trends
Stay cool: Low-energy ways to beat the heat (Christian Science Monitor, July 21)
Life in the Cute Lane [SUV drivers shift to Smart cars] (Washington Post, July 18) Free site registration required
New target in Colombia’s drug war: ecofriendly US users (Christian Science Monitor, July 18)
Diet for a more-crowded planet: plants (Christian Science Monitor, July 18)
A More Flattering Shade of Green [Profile of green living site CarbonRally.com] (N.Y. Times, July 17) Free site registration required
Pope attacks consumer culture for scarring and squandering the world's natural resources (Daily Mail, July 17)
Walk Score Unveils America's Most Walkable Neighborhoods (Earth Times/Front Seat, July 17)
Business & Economy
 Direct Mail Tries to Go Green. No, Really. (N.Y. Times, July 23) Free site registration required
Nissan Says Electric Cars Will Be Quickly Profitable (N.Y. Times, July 23) Free site registration required
Pew Center and Toyota Team Up to Research Energy Efficiency Best Practices (GreenBiz, July 22)
Green Purchasing Makes Slight Gains (GreenBiz, July 22)
More S&P 100 Companies Reporting CSR Progress: Study (GreenBiz, July 22)
As Travel Costs Rise, More Meetings Go Virtual (N.Y. Times, July 22) Free site registration required
Medicine Gears Up for a Code Green (Washington Post, July 22) Free site registration required
Green Becomes Official Color of Baseball (Washington Post, July 20) Free site registration required
Wal-Mart greening its jewelry? (Christian Science Monitor, July 17)
Commentary
A sampling of editorials relating the the environment. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Geographic.
Energy and the environment: Obama, McCain differ (Philadelphia Inquirer, July 20)
The Answer's in the Wind -- and Sun (Washington Post, July 20) Free site registration required
9/11 and 4/11 [Energy policy] (N.Y. Times, July 20) Free site registration required
Money talks on climate change (Guardian, July 18)
Gore's Bold, Unrealistic Plan to Save the Planet (Time, July 18)
Time to invest more in protecting environment (China Daily, July 15)
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Global Warming Forces Innovative Sea Turtle Protection (National Geographic News, July 22)
Lionfish Decimating Tropical Fish Populations And Coral Reefs (TerraDaily/SPX, July 22)
N. Rockies Wolves Get Federal Protection Restored (National Geographic News, July 21)
Mexican Resorts Destroying Mangroves, Dooming Fisheries (National Geographic News, July 21)
Warming Alters Predator-Prey Balance (Washington Post, July 21) Free site registration required
Alien fish creates three-way hybrid (New Scientist, July 21)
On Mustang Range, a Battle on Thinning the Herd (N.Y. Times, July 20) Free site registration required
Wetlands could unleash "carbon bomb" (Reuters, July 20)
Study: Falling icebergs harming ecosystem (TerraDaily/UPI, July 18)
Protecting Mau Forest in Kenya's Economic Interest (ENN/UNEP, July 18)
8 Signs the Animal Kingdom Is Out of Whack (Yahoo News/LiveScience, July 18)
Move Species Threatened by Warming, Scientists Advise (National Geographic News, July 17)
Great Lakes face $200m annual economic risk from invasive species (Guardian, July 17)
Stinging Wasps Moving North Due to Warming? (National Geographic News, July 16)
Austro-Canadian team to examine climate change effect on fish (Yahoo News/AFP, July 16)
Technology
GM Works With Utilities On Plug-Ins (NPR, July 22)
Brazil harnesses space tech to monitor deforestation (ENN/Science and Development Network, July 22)
PHOTOS: Fuel-Saving Designs Win Future-Plane Contest (National Geographic News, July 18)
Fuel cell cars still 15 years away at best: study (ENN/Reuters, July 18)
Can we engineer a cooler earth? (Christian Science Monitor, July 16)
Pollution
Environmentalists sue EPA for cleaner water rules (Yahoo News/AP, July 17)
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Public Opinion & Surveys
Why your happiness matters to the planet [Research links true happiness to a smaller footprint] (Christian Science Monitor, July 22)
Soaring gas prices causing shifts in behavior, attitudes (Mercury News, July 17)
Green Building
Self sufficient 'smart homes' promised by 2010 (Guardian, July 21)
Trying to Build a Greener Britain, Home by Home (N.Y. Times, July 20) Free site registration required
Pupils to heat 'Weetabix school' (BBC News, July 18)
California Adopts Green Building Code for All New Construction (GreenBiz, July 18)
U.S. & Government
Ex-EPA Official Says White House Pulled Rank (Washington Post, July 23) Free site registration required
A New (and Unlikely) Tell-All [Environmental whistle-blower Jason K. Burnett] (N.Y. Times, July 22) Free site registration required
Congressional Trade Leaders Call on White House to Stop Overfishing Subsidies (ENN/Oceana, July 21)
Climate Report Sets Goals And Urges Lifestyle Changes [Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments] (Washington Post, July 20) Free site registration required
Mayors Urge Municipal Bans On Bottled Water (NPR, July 19)
Warming Is Major Threat To Humans, EPA Warns (Washington Post, July 18) Free site registration required
Federal Conservation Program At Risk (NPR, July 18)
House members introduce gas-price-relief bill that doesn’t involve drilling (Christian Science Monitor, July 18)
EPA Begins Sketching Carbon Capture and Storage Framework (GreenBiz, July 17)
Both candidates talk the talk on green issues but who can deliver? (Guardian, July 17)
Interior Dept. Opens 2.6 Million Alaskan Acres for Oil Exploration (N.Y. Times, July 17) Free site registration required
International
World Bank Criticized on Environmental Efforts (N.Y. Times, July 22) Free site registration required
Beijing has first workday under car restrictions (N.Y. Times, July 21) Free site registration required
Ontario joins US carbon trading clan (TerraDaily/AFP, July 18)
Climate builds bridges across Asia (BBC News, July 16)
Australia to set up carbon trading scheme by 2010 (TerraDaily/AFP, July 16)
Climate Change
Did A Significant Climate Change Event, Known As Younger Dryas, Impact Climate Around The Globe? (ScienceDaily, July 22)
Arctic lake a laboratory for studying climate change's effects on ecosystem (Guardian/McClatchy, July 22)
Plankton turn tropical Atlantic into a huge carbon sink (New Scientist, July 21)
Amazon powers Atlantic Ocean's carbon sink: study (TerraDaily/AFP, July 21)
Ice Adrift From Warming Scrapes Antarctic Seabed Bare (National Geographic News, July 17)
Mitigating Climate Change By Improving Forest Management In The Tropics (TerraDaily/SPX, July 17)
Undersea Volcanic Rocks Offer Vast Repository For Greenhouse Gas (TerraDaily/SPX, July 17)
Warming health report: Poor, elderly to hurt most (Yahoo News/AP, July 17)
Satellite cutbacks could leave us blind at the poles (New Scientist, July 16)
Energy
A town’s bold plan to harness offshore wind (Christian Science Monitor, July 23)
An Oilman's Bet Against Oil [T. Boone Pickens launches alternative-energy campaign] (Washington Post, July 22) Free site registration required
Saharan sun to power European supergrid (Guardian, July 22)
Nuclear Power A Thorny Issue For Candidates (NPR, July 21)
Gore Urges Fast Energy Makeover (Washington Post, July 18) Free site registration required
Exploring Realities Of Offshore Oil Drilling (NPR, July 18)
Getting Solar Power For Less (NPR, July 18)
U.S. leaders need to stop playing politics on energy (International Herald Tribune/Reuters, July 18)
$10m prize to develop jet fuel alternative (Guardian, July 17)
How Tides Could Power the Future (Yahoo News/LiveScience, July 16)
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