Climate change: What would Brian Boitano do?

Climate change: What would Brian Boitano do? He make a plan and follow through! In South Park the olympic Ice Skater Brian Boitano could do anything, but can he save the planet?

Well maybe not Brian Boitano, but four U.S. olympians have called on the U.S. Senate to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation this year.
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Earth Day Founder Speaks Out: All Certified Wood is Not Equal

On the eve of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Denis Hayes – the coordinator of the original Earth Day in 1970 and International Chairman of Earth Day 2010 – has issued a pointed reminder that we must be vigilant in scrutinizing what passes as “green” in our expanding marketplace for eco-friendly products. In a Seattle Times op-ed last week, Hayes, a nationally recognized leader on conservation policy, cautions the U.S. Green Building Council not to let its prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program be “diluted” by allowing timber industry-set standards for forest management to pass as equal to those of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), “the gold standard for good forestry.”
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$6 Billion plan to save the rainforests

$6 BILLION PLAN TO SAVE WORLD’S RAINFORESTS RISKS DERAILMENT BEFORE IT BEGINS, WARN LEADING ENVIRONMENTALISTS

Indigenous peoples and other NGOs are being excluded from key international climate meetings taking place this week that could determine the future of the world’s rainforests, say a network of forty environmental and human rights organisations denouncing the lack of transparency and participation in the discussions.
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Tags: deforestaion, emissions, rainforest, save

Year of the Tiger Begins with Big Cats in Serious Trouble Around the World

As many Asian countries prepare to celebrate Year of the Tiger beginning February 14, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reports that tigers are in crisis around the world, including here in the United States, where more tigers are kept in captivity than are alive in the wild throughout Asia. As few as 3,200 tigers exist in the wild in Asia where they are threatened by poaching, habitat loss, illegal trafficking and the conversion of forests for infrastructure and plantations.
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Tags: asia, big cats, cats, climate change, environment, exstinct, habitat, threat, tiger, troublespots, tx2, world wildlife fund, wwf, year of the tiger

UK partners with Indonesia to fight climate change

The UK has joined forces with the Indonesian government to tackle deforestation and prepare Indonesians for the impacts of climate change, International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander announced at Davos today.

The partnership will work to bring down carbon emissions by reversing the high rate of deforestation in the country, boost Indonesia ’s low carbon economy and lift thousands of people out of poverty.
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Tags: carbon, climate change, deforestation, emissions, global warming, indonesia, trees, uk

Grazinglands Reduce Greenhouse Gases

Rangeland Ecology & Management—A green pasture with grazing animals offers an idyllic image of our natural environment. With much of the current focus on climate change, such a pasture has much more to offer than image. Through effective policy implementation, grazinglands can reduce greenhouse gases through carbon sequestration and emissions reductions offset credits.
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Tags: carbon, cattle, cows, emissions, grazing, greenhouse gases, land, reduction

Global Warming Bringing More Oddball Winter Weather

Global warming is having a seemingly peculiar effect on winter weather in the northern United States, detailed in a new report from the National Wildlife Federation.

“Oddball winter weather is yet another sign of how uncontrolled carbon pollution amounts to an unchecked experiment on people and nature,” said Dr. Amanda Staudt, climate scientist, National Wildlife Federation. “While global warming means shorter, milder winters on average, some snowbelt areas will see more heavy snowfall events. Disruptions to tourism and recreation economies will become increasingly common – for example to skiing and ice fishing that depend on predictable conditions. Snow removal, wintertime floods, agriculture, and forestry will also become increasingly more difficult to manage.”
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Greater Mekong Tiger Numbers Have Dropped More Than 70 Percent in 10 Years

Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the region’s five countries containing only 350 tigers, according to a new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report released today.

“Tigers on the Brink: Facing up to the Challenge in the Greater Mekong” comes as leaders from tiger range countries prepare to meet for the first Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation in Hua Hin, Thailand. The conference is part of a year-long effort to save wild tigers during the Chinese Year of the Tiger, which begins February 14.
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Tags: asian, extinction, greater mekong tiger, poaching, tigers, wildlife, world wildlife fund, wwf

Climate Change Threatens To Wipe Out One of Worlds Largest Tiger Populations This Century

One of the world’s largest tiger populations could disappear by the end of this century as rising sea levels caused by climate change destroy their habitat along the coast of Bangladesh in an area known as the Sundarbans, according to a new World Wildlife Fund-led study published in the journal Climatic Change.
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Tags: climate change, estinction, exstinct, gas emissions, global warming, land, poaching, sea level rise, threat, tiger, tigers, unesco, wildlife, wwf

WWF Camera Trap Yields First-Time Video of Critically Endangered Sumatran Tiger and Cubs

Camera traps set deep in the Indonesian jungle have captured first-time video footage of a rare female Sumatran tiger and her cubs, giving World Wildlife Fund (WWF) researchers unique insight into the elusive tiger’s behavior.
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Tags: cubs, endangered, pictures, species, sumatran tiger, tiger, video, world wildlife fund, wwf