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First-Ever Carbon Map Shows Global Warming in Peru’s Amazon

This image shows an area of road building and development adjacent to primary forest in red tones, and secondary forest regrowth in green tones. Credit: Carnegie Institution.

You can see the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that …

Wyoming Town Close to Drilling Told To Avoid Drinking Water

image via Gasland

I lived in Wyoming for 8 years and it breaks my heart that the state’s landscape is being so significantly altered by the oil, coal and gas industry. I never visited the town of Pavillion when I was in Wyoming, and now I don’t have …

On This Labor Day, Demand Safe Green Jobs, And Honor Those Who Work With Their Hands

There is a price to pay for cheap energy and gas for our cars that goes beyond dollars, as we saw this year with the 29 dead miners in West Virginia and the 11 on the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf. American labor used to make things and fix …

‘Local’ Cream Travels 340 Miles to End on its Own Doorstep

Image credit: Roddas

From the very beginning, TreeHugger has been a huge advocate for local food. Ever since Time Magazine declared that local food was going mainstream back in 2007, there’s been a steady stream of retailers and restaurateurs getting…

Human Activity May Have Boosted Palau Shellfish Size

photo: Wikimedia Commons

A new study in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows there are exceptions to the conventional eco-wisdom that increased human activity always spells harm for animals: Researchers from North Carolina State University hav…

Can Big Society Save the Planet, and Squash Big Government Too?

Image credit: Conservative Home

I’ve always found the assertion that all environmentalists are socialist a little hard to swallow. I know plenty of conservatives who love the natural world and abhor waste. And I know plenty of radical greens whose an…

New Green Fashion Website is a One-Stop-Shop for Fall Style Trends

Samantha Pleet; Camilla Norrback. Photo: Label Gazer

I’ll keep this one light and fun: it’s Labor Day, after all.

Label Gazer is the Style.com of green fashion: it’s a resource for consumers to browse designers and collections — without added comm…

Banksy Continues His Environmental Theme in Graffiti

Images from artkrush

Banksy, that super-productive and ubiquitous graffiti artist, is at it again. Last week his work was popping up as a children’s ride that was an anti-BP statement.

He is back from his North American tour, where he visited Toron…

18% of Grade Schools in Japan Feed Whale to Kids

Photo via kasei.co.uk

It turns out that a surprisingly high number of grade schools in Japan are serving their students more than just a well-rounded education. According to the results of a survey released today, whale meat is back on the menu at ab…

Epic Shark Feeding Frenzy Caught on Film

Sharks are normally considered solitary hunters, but one incredible video shows that sometimes they do get together — and in a big way. Off the