800,000 comments support the EPA in their efforts to curb dangerous mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants.
via NWF

Rupert Murdoch (courtesy World Economic Forum)
Will the media finally start asking if Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. was connected to the illegal hacking of climate scientist emails?

Julie Mida Hinderer, a graduate of the Aquatic Sciences master’s program at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, is a research assistant at NWF’s Great Lakes Regional Center. She is currently working on a report on Great Lakes nutrient pollution issues.

Dear friends of ITFC,
Our team has descended from setting up the GLORIA plots on the Rwenzori Mountains! We expect them back at the station later today.
WCS’ Anton Seimon, who trained the team came back a few days earlier and send us some pictures. We share them here with you, as the beauty of this place is really stunning. But some suffering was unavoidable: they had it tough, with days of snow fall, wet feet after walking through the bogs and worries about one of the porters who fell sick and had to be rescued from above 4000 m.a.s.l.

Dear followers of ITFC’s blog
We have just come back from the footslopes of the Rwenzori mountains, on the border between Uganda and DR-Congo. We had a 1-day workshop there to introduce a new monitoring activity: ITFC will lead a new study that will set up high altitude plots (well above the treeline, around 4000 m.a.s.l.) to follow temperature and vegetation trends over decades to come. These are the first such plots in Africa!

Former Vice President Al Gore (via Flickr's AmericanProgressAction)

President Barack Obama announces his plans for Afghanistan tonight at 8 PM, Jacob Zuma tells Michelle Obama he is too busy to meet with her, Gore accuses Obama of failing to address climate issues, and the House will vote on President Obama’s war powers. Furthermore, student loans are detrimental to students with health problems, and [...]

BONN, GERMANY, June 11, 2011 – A new report released today by Friends of the Earth International during the UN climate talks in Bonn this week shows that the World Bank Group has been increasing its investments in fossil fuels and promoting corporate-led false solutions to climate change, including carbon trading, that serve to deepen rather than alleviate the current environmental crisis.

Outdoorsmen speak up for Clean Air

I’m a born-and-raised South Carolinian, and I’m proud of my personal conservation ethic. I’m not the only one — I know conservationists of all stripes who, like me, were inspired by childhood experiences playing in the pluff mud, crabbing for Atlantic Blue Crabs in the creeks, and bird-watching with family.