Warming threat worse in tropics – Los Angeles Times

 
Scientists say many species can’t tolerate small temperature rises.
From the Associated Press
11:47 AM PDT, May 5, 2008
WASHINGTON — While global warming is expected to be strongest at the poles, it may be an even greater threat to species living in the tropics, scientists [...]

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Native Seeds Fight Food Shortage and Global Warming : TreeHugger

a solution to food production and global warming. The key ideas are:
1. Biodiversity increases the ability of an ecosystem to capture carbon, says Brown University.
2. There are 100’s of economically important native seeds according to Lee and Maggie Arbuckle.
3. Native perennial grasses can be used as [...]

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American Society of Landscape Architects: Welcome Annotated

A green roof replaces traditional roofing with a lightweight, living system of soil, compost, and plants.

The plants–and the dirt and gravel that hold them–filter rainwater and some of its pollutants. The plants produce oxygen that help clean the air. A green roof reduces a building’s heating and cooling [...]

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Nature Conservancy News Room – The Nature Conservancy Launches “Plant a Billion Trees Campaign” with Planet Green Annotated

Today, The Nature Conservancy launched the “Plant a Billion Trees Campaign” at www.plantabillion.org to restore and plant one billion trees by 2015 in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, one of the greatest repositories of biodiversity on Earth.
 

Just a [...]

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Will the U.S. solve the climate change problem? Blogs Scientific American Community Annotated

by dbiello

Mar 29, 2008

Either the ingenuity unleashed by the United States own special mix of free markets and government regulation will solve the climate change crisis or the rest of the world, having witnessed an [...]

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