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emagazine
Dr. Nancy Knowlton is a coral reef scientist who studies their ecology and evolution, including the impact of climate change. The founding director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the University of California, San Diego, she is also a professor at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Her contributions have been crucial to the [...]

WWF
The penguin population of Antarctica is under pressure from global warming, according to a WWF report.
The report, Antarctic Penguins and Climate Change, shows that the four populations of penguins that breed on the Antarctic continent — Adélie, Emperor, Chinstrap and Gentoo — are under escalating pressure. For some, global warming is taking away precious ground [...]

AP
Just a few years ago, the lush coral reefs off Bali island were dying out, bleached by rising temperatures, blasted by dynamite fishing and poisoned by cyanide. Now they are coming back, thanks to an unlikely remedy: electricity.
The coral is thriving on dozens of metal structures submerged in the bay and fed by cables that [...]

AP
Slimy, green and unsightly, seaweed and algae are among the humblest of plants.
A group of scientists at a climate conference in Bali say they could also be a potent weapon against global warming, capable of sucking damaging carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere at rates comparable to the mightiest rain forests.
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The seaweed research, backed by [...]

MSNBC
The amount of melt on Greenland’s ice sheet last summer broke the previous measured record by 10 percent, according to new data analyzed by researchers at Colorado University.
The 2007 melt was the largest ever recorded since satellite measurements began in 1979, researcher Konrad Steffen told colleagues at a conference of the American Geophysical Union this [...]

MSNBC
John Bruno isn’t attending the U.N. climate talks being held in Bali, Indonesia, but he does have some advice for any delegates looking to take in the resort’s famed reefs: enjoy it now, because if sea temperatures continue to rise, expect to see more — and more severe — disease outbreaks that wipe out corals.
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MSNBC
A new battery that can be recharged to 90 percent capacity in under five minutes and lasts 10 years will start shipping in March, Toshiba Corp. announced this week, hailing it as “a new energy solution” for cleaner transportation.
Toshiba plans to initially make the quick-charging Super Charge ion Battery for electric bikes, forklifts, construction machinery [...]

reuters
Infestations of sea lice at salmon farms on Canada’s west coast are threatening local wild pink salmon populations and could result in their extinction in another four years, Canadian researchers said on Thursday.
They collected nearly four decades of data on the numbers of pink salmon in rivers along the central coast of British Columbia, comparing [...]

environmentaldefense.org
From December 3-14, over 180 countries are meeting in Bali, Indonesia, to discuss how to reduce global warming emissions, as soon as possible, and avert  dangerous climate change.
Environmental Defense’s delegation has three main goals:

help the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change countries create a 2-year road map for negotiating a new climate treaty that would [...]

livescience
Look at the newest “green” building in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, and you won’t see solar panels, so you might be forgiven for not recognizing it as an environmentally friendly structure.
Instead, smart planning and design—and some smart technology—make the new building at the University System of Maryland’s Shady Grove campus in Rockville an energy-efficient, green [...]