Photo via National Geographic We’ve got a new regular slideshow here on TreeHugger: The Week in Animal Photos. Catch a glimpse of what the animal kingdom has been up to this week, from a tiger cub disguised as a stuffed tiger rescued from an international... 

photo: Michael Graham Richard As most readers have probably heard or read by now, yesterday was a dramatic day at the Silver Spring, Maryland headquarters of TreeHugger’s parent company, Discovery Communications. Early in the afternoon a lone man,... 

Image: Google Maps Thankfully, No Deaths This Time An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire today in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP’s massive oil spill. All 13 people who... 

In the first emissions trading to be introduced outside of Europe, the New Zealand government has just launched a cap and trade system to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 10 and 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, UPI is reporting. New Zealand imports... 

After debuting the world’s first hybrid tugboat in 2009 , the Port of Long Beach is partnering again with Foss Maritime Company to retrofit an existing tugboat with hybrid technology. The ship called the Campbell Foss is a conventional dolphin... 

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Photo via KhE O2 , a communications company in the United Kingdom, has just launched the country’s first green cell phone ranking system — something of which Apple did not want the iPhone to be part . But G… Read the full story on TreeHugger... 

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The U.S. Coast Guard has set a goal of a net zero carbon footprint for housing at their Southwest Harbor Base in Maine.  The base is using solar panels, solar hot water heaters and now a wind turbine for their energy needs.  Efficiency-boosting retrofits... 

photo via flickr Notoriously publicity shy Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish climate skeptic known for saying outrageous things about climate change , has seemingly changed his tune. Yesterday, the UK’s Guardian reported that Lomborg makes a new claim...