From the monthly archives: April 2009

Paul McCartney Calls on Pamela Anderson to Help Tackle Global Warming

By On April 30, 2009

Music legend Sir Paul McCartney is seeking to enlist the help of an unlikely candidate in the battle to solve climate change, ex-baywatch starlet Pamela Anderson.

Apparently, his royal beatleness made the plea in a direct two page letter to Anderson, following her ongoing loyal support [...]

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Sea Otter Acquires 1,000 FaceBook Friends

By On April 26, 2009

While being nursed back to health, a sea otter was supported by a huge online gathering.

The California sea otter was found covered with oil, and stranded at Sunset Beach in Monterey. It was taken to the California Dept. of Fish and Game’s Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center in Santa Cruz. She was named ‘Olive’ [...]

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Sustainable Ecovillage Community in Nick News’ A Kid Off The Grid

By On April 23, 2009

What’s it like to live in an off the grid straw bale house, use solar power, grow your own food, and collect rainfall from your roof? What if your father was a famous actor turned green activist? Nick News documents the lives of kids living alternative, ecological lifestyles in their new A [...]

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Scientific Proof of Global Warming

By On April 23, 2009

Despite any confusion that you might be facing, the facts on global warming are not up for debate.

–> Highly recommended: What is Causing Global Warming?

It is true that there are some natural causes of global warming. However, there is no doubt amongst the world’s leading experts [...]

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Hopping Mad! French Bus Driver Faces Sack for Frog Rescue

By On April 20, 2009

A French bus driver working in Germany has been suspended from work after she stopped her double-decker bus to save a frog from being flattened under the wheels.

Passengers, already hopping mad because of a 20-minute delay, were incensed when Christina Pommerel, 46, jumped from her seat, [...]

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Human Global Warming: What are the Main Causes?

By On April 18, 2009

To understand how humans cause global warming, it is important that you are aware of the link between your daily activities and the greenhouse effect. Furthermore, once you understand this, it is easy to see that you have the power to help stop global warming from getting worse.

The primary way humans cause global warming is by burning fossil fuels. This increases the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, which leads to an increase in the Greenhouse Effect.

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Save Polar Bears and Undo Bush’s Weakening of Endangered Species Act

By On April 17, 2009

So far 46,000 online signatures have been gathered by the Center for Biological Diversity to support the re-writing of the Bush administration’s regulations which allow for the emission of greenhouse gases to not be considered as a threat to wildlife habitats and wildlife like the polar bear, even though global warming is clearly harming polar bears.

They also [...]

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UK Police Arrest 114 Activists For Planning Coal Plant Protest

By On April 13, 2009

In a demonstration of increased surveillance on protest groups in Britain, police arrested 114 people for alleged conspiracy to commit criminal damage and aggravated trespass at a coal-fired power plant.

Huh? What kind of protest involves 114 people “conspiring” to enter and vandalize a power plant? Sounds like a few dozen were [...]

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World’s Rarest Shark Caught, Then Eaten

By On April 8, 2009

 

Fishermen in the Philippines accidentally caught and later ate one of the rarest sharks in the world – the megamouth shark.

Only 40 others have been encountered, the World Wildlife Fund said Tuesday. The 1,100-pound, 13-foot megamouth died while struggling in the fishermen’s net on March 30 off Burias island in [...]

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Cato Institute Ad Calls Climate Change “Grossly Overstated”

By On April 6, 2009

Full page ads questioning President Obama’s stance on climate change were published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Times, and the Los Angeles Times last week, paid for by the Cato Institute.

Environmentalists, journalists, and scientists alike are calling foul and poking holes in the [...]

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Guy Punked By April Fool’s Joke, Calls Liberals “Stupid”

By On April 6, 2009

You know, I been quite flattered with the attention my April Fool’s Day joke has gotten. I didn’t think a story about marshmallow whales would hit the front page of digg, or make it on to Comedy Central’s blog…but this takes the cake!

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Why Going Vegetarian For One Day Will Help Stop Global Warming

By On April 6, 2009

Americans eat lots of meat. So much so that livestock is now one of the leading contributors to global warming, responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions as measured in a carbon dioxide equivalent.

A recent United Nations report concluded that the meat industry causes almost 40% more greenhouse gas emissions than [...]

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Nine Snow Monkeys Escape from Oregon Animal Testing Lab

By On April 4, 2009

Nine monkeys escaped from an Oregon Health & Science University animal testing lab after a cage was left unlocked. Four were shortly re-captured and four others have been spotted on campus — but one has entirely eluded authorities.

“One of our cage cleaners accidentally left a lock off a cage,” said Jim Newman, [...]

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Whale-Sized Marshmallows Deployed to Thwart Japanese Whalers

By On April 1, 2009

Just Born — the makers of Marshmallow Peeps — says they’ll be producing whale-shaped, and whale-sized, Marshmallow Peeps in an effort to end Japanese whaling.

The Peep-maker said the joint effort is between Darryl Hannah, The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Greenpeace, and that they are uniting under [...]

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