Permafrost

Ice Age Flower Revived After 30,000 Years In Icy Burrow

AP | By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 02.21.2012

MOSCOW -- It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 3...

New Year's Resolution: Optimism

Andrew Winston | Posted 03.04.2012

Andrew Winston

The full logic of green -- the economic, environmental, social, and moral imperative -- is dawning on everyone from joe skier to fossil-fuel CEOs and local entrepreneurs.

'Green News Report' - December 22, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.21.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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'Green News Report' - December 20, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.19.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Rush Limb...

'Green News Report' - December 13, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.12.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate c...

'Green News Report' - December 8, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.07.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Triumph o...

'Green News Report' - December 6, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.05.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: It's not ...

'Green News Report' - December 1, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 01.31.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Newt make...

Move Over Cold War: The 'Ice War' Cometh

Kelly Rigg | Posted 07.16.2011

Kelly Rigg

Warming more than twice as fast as other parts of the world, the Arctic is on the receiving end of climate change, and oil development in the region is one of the drivers of change.

Green News Report: February 17, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Heavier s...

California's Global Warming Law Is Here to Stay

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 05.25.2011

Dr. Reese Halter

On Tuesday November 2 the voters of California will not capitulate to big Texas Oil interest.

Pulse of the Planet: Is It a Good Microbe or a Bad Microbe?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Chameides

Could it be that we've been looking in the wrong places to solve our problems? Could it be that all our worries would be over if we only had some more microbes?

Laughing Gas In Arctic Bigger Threat Than Previously Thought: Study

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

OSLO (Reuters) -- Thawing permafrost can release nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, a contributor to climate change that has been largely over...

Warming Is Unequivocal

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Chameides

Is the Wall Street Journal making like an ostrich and sticking its head in melting permafrost? The media coverage of climategate has not been exemplary of journalism at its best.

Green News Report -- February 18, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Wacky weather Down Under; San Francisco's fog of change; Permafrost shifts North ... PLUS: GOP ...

The Nation's Energy Expert Speaks Out on Climate...Not

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Chameides

It blows my mind that someone could write a critique of a bill designed to address climate change and never once mention the word "climate."

Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Chameides

Dr. Bill Chameides is the dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs regularly at th...

Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011

Janet Ritz

A new study warns that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost is threatened by the rapid retreat of Arctic Sea Ice, and this summer may see the first ice-free North Pole for the first time in recorded history.