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Bush touts sport-fishing executive order and migratory-bird conservation plan

President Bush this weekend speechified and photo-op’ed for the environment, specifically courting the hunting and angling crowd through a fishing trip and wildlife refuge visit touting an executive order for […]

California to sue EPA to force decision on vehicle-emissions waiver

California is expected to follow through on its threat to sue the U.S. EPA this week for not yet deciding whether to give the state the waiver it needs to […]

Insomniac zebra fish and stranded sea-turtle babies

... in defiance of a 1959 treaty that agreed no new claims would be laid on Antarctica, press reports say Britain is poised to claim a million square kilometers of Antarctic seabed ...

... the Canadian government announced it would add six new positions dedicated to fisheries assessment in the Arctic ...

... scientists began mapping the seafloor off the coast of Ulster. One scientist said the results would show that 90 percent of the Irish Republic is land beneath water ...

Friday music blogging: The Budos Band

I know next to nothing about The Budos Band, and don’t really want to. I enjoy that they’re somewhat mysterious, as though they sprung through a spacetime warp direct from […]

Stewart on Gore

Here’s Jon Stewart (who’s got a spiffy new website) on Gore’s Nobel win:

Grist maximum leader Chip Giller lights up the pages of Time

Laugh, or the planet gets it. Photo: John Clark, TIME. The cover story in TIME magazine’s international edition this week is "Heroes of the Environment." Lots of good stuff to […]

Bipartisan cap-and-trade bill introduced to mixed reviews

On Wednesday, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.) introduced bipartisan climate legislation — America’s Climate Security Act — at long last bridging the acrimonious divide between Republicans and, […]

Ann Arbor, Mich., declares itself first U.S. city to use LEDs in all its streetlights

Ann Arbor, Mich., home to the main campus of the University of Michigan, announced that it intends to become the first U.S. city to convert all of its downtown streetlights […]

Ugh

Last night’s party in Seattle went wonderfully well, and by “well” I mean I drank well beyond excess and by “wonderfully” I mean won’t someone please kill me now and […]

Britain wades into battle for sea-floor mineral rights in Southern Ocean

The World Wildlife Fund has been trying to gather support to establish a network of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean in an attempt to mitigate increasing ecological pressures […]