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Media
Mermaid of honour [Drawing competition to raise awareness of marine conservation.] (Malaysia Star, Aug. 17)
Into the Heart [Review of "Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon.'] (Washington Post, Aug. 17) Free site registration required
What's Captured, and What's Let Go [Photography show Smithsonian American Art Museum.] (Washington Post, Aug. 17) Free site registration required
Animal Advocate Envisions a Vegetarian World [Profile of author of "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals."] (Washington Post, Aug. 17)
Shell's 'Sustainable' Oil Sands Ad Ruled Misleading (GreenBiz, Aug. 15)
Film of fishermen dumping catch causes uproar (Guardian UK, Aug. 13)
Green Living & Social Trends
Field Studies: In Exploring Culture, Politics and the Environment, Food Programs Hit the Academic Mainstream (Washington Post, Aug. 20) Free site registration required
Electrosmog enters the dictionary [Green vocabulary.] (BBC News, Aug. 14)
Fashion Meets Earth (ENN/Keep Green Going, Aug. 13)
Bumps on the Road to a Greener City [Farming in the city.] (N.Y. Times, Aug. 13) Free site registration required
 Pandering to the green consumer [Bamboo.] (Guardian UK, Aug. 13)
Business & Economy
'Power IT Down Day' Aims to Raise Awareness of IT Energy Efficiency (GreenerComputingNews, Aug. 20)
Remanufacturing has role in war on waste (Edie.net, Aug. 19)
My Company Just Started a Sustainability Department -- What Do I Do Now? (GreenBiz, Aug. 18)
Airlines Hunger For Homegrown Fuel (redOrbit, Aug. 17)
Companies Should Broaden Carbon Footprint Calculations (redOrbit, Aug. 17)
Clorox CEO and Sierra Club Chief on Green Products (Online NewsHour, Aug. 15)
Green Manufacturing Can Help 'Move Business Forward' (GreenBiz, Aug. 15)
Pulpwatch.org Rates Mills on Social, Environmental Performance (GreenBiz, Aug. 14)
Companies face crackdown on electricity greenwash (Guardian UK, Aug. 13)
Commentary
Go against the flow [Our water footprint.] (Guardian UK, Aug. 20)
Petropolitics at heart of Russia-Georgia clash (Christian Science Monitor, Aug. 18)
Why bees matter (Guardian UK, Aug. 14)
Analysis: is the Prince of Wales right about GM crops? (Times UK, Aug. 13)
Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Birds can't keep up with climate change (TerraDaily/AFP, Aug. 20)
Europe's pine may be wiped out, say experts (Guardian UK, Aug. 18)
Regardless of Size, Location, Species Share a Threat: Man (Washington Post, Aug. 17) Free site registration required
Camera spots rare clouded leopard [Borneo.] (BBC News, Aug. 16)
Pacific dives recover novel fish (BBC News, Aug. 15)
'Dead Zones' Appear In Waters Worldwide (Washington Post, Aug. 15) Free site registration required
Extinction Most Likely For Rare Trees In The Amazon Rainforest (TerraDaily/SPX, Aug. 15)
Frogs and other amphibians dying at alarming rates, say scientists (Guardian UK, Aug. 14)
Invasion Of Comb Jellyfish (ScienceDaily, Aug. 13)
Mass Extinctions And 'Rise Of Slime' Predicted For Oceans (ScienceDaily, Aug. 13)
Technology
Chinese scientists recycle circuit boards to park benches (SciDevNet. Aug. 18)
Cataloguing Invisible Life: Microbe Genome Emerges From Lake Sediment [Studying complex microbial communities.] (ScienceDaily, Aug. 17)
Pollution
Pollution from ships causing thousands of deaths (Guardian UK, Aug. 19)
Millions eating food grown with polluted water, says UN report (Guardian UK, Aug. 18)
Newly Detected Air Pollutant Mimics Damaging Effects Of Cigarette Smoke (ScienceDaily, Aug. 18)
More than Halfway Through the Games, a Rarity for Beijing: A Breath of Fresh Air (N.Y. Times, Aug. 17) Free site registration required
Pollution killing 21,000 Canadians this year (Yahoo!/AFP, Aug. 14)
Scientists "listen" to plants to find water pollution (Yahoo!/Reuters, Aug. 14)
WEEE Leads to Toxins in Ghana, Greenpeace Finds [Waste electrical & electronic items.] (GreenerComputingNews, Aug. 12)
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Public Opinion & Surveys
U.K., U.S. Workers Surveyed About Going Green (GreenBiz, Aug. 19)
Reduce carbon footprint or find more energy sources? Americans want to do both, poll finds (ENN/Stanford News, Aug. 15)
74% - Chinese Very Worried About the Environment (Yahoo!/PewResearchCenter, Aug. 14)
Green Building
Eco-tower rising in Lower Manhattan to include hotel and meeting space (ENN/The Green Meeting, Aug. 18)
U.S. gives Olympic Village gold for going green (Yahoo!/Reuters, Aug. 13)
U.S. & Government
EPA to Launch Web Portal to Green Resources for Retailers (GreenBiz, Aug. 18)
Democrats to Offer Bill With Offshore Oil Drilling (Planet Ark/Reuters, Aug. 18)
T. Boone Pickens: Breakfast with champs [Meetings with McCain & Obama.] (Chicago Tribune/The Swamp, Aug. 17) Renewable Power's Growth in Colorado Presages National Debate (Washington Post, Aug. 18)
Champion Cyclist and Now Champion Guzzler of Austin Water [Lance Armstrong.] (N.Y. Times, Aug. 16) Free site registration required
US supreme court kicks Exxon Valdez case back to California court (Guardian UK, Aug. 13)
International
Japan to label goods' carbon footprints (Yahoo!/AFP, Aug. 19)
Spain sweats amid 'water wars' (BBC News, Aug. 18)
Japan seeks to arrest anti-whaling activists (Reuters, Aug. 18)
Corruption killing Bangladesh forests: watchdog (Yahoo!/AFP, Aug. 18)
Amazon Fund Seen as 'Paradigm Shift' for Forest (Planet Ark/Reuters, Aug. 18)
Summit targets world water issues (BBC News, Aug. 17)
France Reaffirms Its Faith in Future of Nuclear Power (N.Y. Times, Aug. 16) Free site registration required
Cotton sucking life out of Murray [Drought in Australia.] (Sydney Morning Herald, Aug. 15)
High fuel costs 'to kill off' Japanese whaling (Sydney Morning Herald, Aug. 14)
Climate Change
Maasai 'can fight climate change' (BBC News, Aug. 18)
Extreme Heat A Threat To World's Poor (NPR, Aug. 18)
Ancient tree helps birds survive (BBC News, Aug. 17)
Middle East Rainfall To Be Significantly Higher Than Thought (redOrbit, Aug. 17)
Heat hurts shellfish relationships (Sydney Morning Herald, Aug. 15)
Purdue Researcher Identifies Climate Change Hotspots (TerraDaily/SPX, Aug. 14)
Hurricanes And Climate Change: A Sharper View (TerraDaily/SPX, Aug. 14)
Climate Change May Boost Middle East Rainfall (ScienceDaily, Aug. 13)
Aphids Are Sentinels Of Climate Change (ENN/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Aug. 12)
Satellites help explain Greenland ice loss mystery (New Scientist, Aug. 9)
Energy
Harvesting Geothermal Energy (NPR, Aug. 15)
Ethanol Power for the People (NPR, Aug. 15)
Traditional Energy's Modern Boom (Washington Post, Aug. 15) Free site registration required
U.S. Could Halve Fuel Consumption by 2035 (GreenBiz, Aug. 14)
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