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Google Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), today announced the RechargeIT initiative (http://www.rechargeit.org) that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and oil dependence by accelerating the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (“plug-ins”. As part of this initiative, Google.org awarded $1 million in grants and announced plans for a $10 million request [...]

Discovery Channel Icebergs that break off Antarctica and drift away turn out to be hotspots of life in the cold Southern Ocean, researchers report. : Turns out, the melting ice also dumps particles scraped off Antarctica into the ocean, providing a pool of nutrients that feed plankton and tiny shrimplike creatures known as krill. : [...]

news @ nature.com A glacial lake in the Andes has disappeared mysteriously, prompting local geologists to head to Bernardo O’Higgins National Park in Patagonia, Chile, to find out what happened. The lake, some 20,000 square metres in area, was last seen in March. By May, all that was left was a 30-metre-deep crater and a [...]

Follow up report on “Greenland ice sheet loss speeding up“. reuters New research shows that man-made climate change could cause the Greenland ice sheet to break up in hundreds, rather than thousands, of years, the chair of a United Nations panel of scientists said on Monday. Its entire collapse would raise sea-levels globally by around [...]

WWF A new WWF study released today finds that the production of farmed salmon in Chile’s unique Patagonian lakes has doubled in the last decade, contaminating them with nutrient pollution, invasive species, disease and harmful chemicals. The study — Salmon Farming in the Lakes of Southern Chile: History, Tendencies, and Environmental Impacts — urges the [...]

Discovery Channel Two years before its completion, the world’s largest dam is already changing the local weather, say scientists studying the Three Gorges Dam on China’s Yangtze River. Both modeling and actual meteorological data suggest that the reservoir is cooling its valley, which is causing changes in rainfall. : To find out if the dam [...]

AP : In a problem that’s pervasive in much of China, over-farming has drawn down the water table so low that desert is overtaking farmland. Authorities have ordered farmers here in Gansu province to vacate their properties over the next 3 1/2 years, and will replace 20 villages with newly planted grass in a final [...]

bigcatrescue Did you know that the only way to produce a white tiger is through severe inbreeding of brother to sister, father to daughter and mother to son? Did you know that there is no such species as a Royal White Bengal Tiger? For even with their increased population, the “Royal White Bengal Tiger” with [...]

guardian.co.uk Spring is arriving in the Arctic weeks earlier than it did a decade ago, according to a long-term survey of life in the far north’s landscape. Rising temperatures are causing snow to melt sooner than before, extending the summer period and dramatically disrupting the fragile ecosystem, scientists said. The change in the seasons – [...]

MSNBC Deadly heat waves around the Mediterranean, like those that killed some 18,000 people in 2003, could become the norm this century if current trends in greenhouse emissions continue, researchers reported on Friday. The number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean region that includes parts of Europe, Africa and the Middle East could increase [...]