Photo via Guardian Most cap and trade schemes proposed by governments include provisions that allow polluting companies to buy carbon offsets –initiatives that pay for tree planting in South America or solar panel installation in India and so forth–instead... 

Suzy Amis Cameron and James Cameron reveal Jillian Granz’s winning sustainable dress at Global Green’s Pre-Oscar Party. Photo: Cerraeh Laykin I know, the dress looks blue— Avatar blue to be exact. But, it’s actually about 85%... 

Image credit: marfis75 /Flickr Tanzania and Zambia, conservationists fear, may receive special permission from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to auction off a combined total of 112 tonnes of stockpiled ivory . Though... 

all images: Climate Registry A new survey of Climate Registry members shows that over 80% of their 400 member companies are planning on reducing their carbon emissions regardless of any government regulation. A similar amount said the main driver of... 

photo: Chor Ip via flickr. As any TreeHugger worth his or her epiphytes knows, preserving tropical rainforests is a major part of preventing the worst of climate change –deforestation itself causing nearly as many carbon emissions as the entire... 

Photo via Read the Hook Charges that climate scientists are “out to line their pockets” get bandied about with such preposterous frequency, that when I stumbled upon this investigative report into one of the leading climate skeptics and his... 

Behold: glow in the dark toilet paper! No need to turn on the light for those late-night ventures to the bathroom,. Toilet paper has been the subject of considerable drama here on the ole’ TreeHugger. Sadly, the softer it is, the worse it is for... 

Image credit: Grist “The attack on climate science,” Bill McKibben says in the title of a recent essay , “is the O.J. moment of the 21st century.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original here:  If the Winter... 

photo: Chris via flickr. One more on the connection between whales and carbon sequestration : Scientists from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute have determined that 100 years of whaling has released the same amount of carbon as burning 50,000 square... 

Photo via InHouse I thought Bill Nye was awesome when I was a kid, and he’s still awesome now. Take this video clip, for example, in which the onetime (and always!) Science Guy keeps a cool head while explaining the science behind global warming...