]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/green Blog Articles Tagged with 'green' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190185?rsstype=tag&tag=green As the President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, argues in Paris that more funding is needed to stop deforestation and mitigate climate change, a shipment of illegal rosewood is being readied for export in Madagascar by a French company with the tacit a... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190185?rsstype=tag&tag=green Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:29:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-energy-news/190183?rsstype=tag&tag=green Birds may see pleasanter skies in the US soon, if Congressman Mike Quigley has his way. Quigley, a democrat from Illinois, has introduced legislation that would require all federal buildings to become bird-friendly, potentially saving the lives of mi... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-energy-news/190183?rsstype=tag&tag=green Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:54:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190186?rsstype=tag&tag=green Birds may see pleasanter skies in the US soon, if Congressman Mike Quigley has his way. Quigley, a democrat from Illinois, has introduced legislation that would require all federal buildings to become bird-friendly, potentially saving the lives of mi... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190186?rsstype=tag&tag=green Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:54:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190189?rsstype=tag&tag=green Heavily polluted and shrinking, Lake Naivasha is in dire trouble. Environmentalists say the cause is clear: flower farms. Some 60 flower farms line the entire lakeside, growing cut flowers for export largely to the EU. While the flowers industry is K... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190189?rsstype=tag&tag=green Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:23:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190190?rsstype=tag&tag=green Mature male orangutans produce what scientist's call 'long calls', which can be heard for one kilometer in all directions even in dense forests. New research in Ethology has uncovered that these calls are employed for a number of reasons and provide ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190190?rsstype=tag&tag=green Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:31:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190191?rsstype=tag&tag=green Extinctions are currently outpacing the capacity for new species to evolve, according to Simon Stuart, chair of the Species Survival Commission for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190191?rsstype=tag&tag=green Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:53:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190192?rsstype=tag&tag=green A research camp with environmental organization Save the Elephants (STE) in Samburu National Reserve in Kenya fell victim to a flash flood last week, after the Ewaso Ng'iro River broke its banks. Fortunately, none of the researchers or employees wer... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190192?rsstype=tag&tag=green Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:57:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-energy-news/190184?rsstype=tag&tag=green Over a third of the greenhouse gas emissions related to the consumption of goods in wealthy nations actually occur in developing countries, according to a new analysis by researchers with the Carnegie Institution. Annually, each person if the United ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-energy-news/190184?rsstype=tag&tag=green Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:50:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190193?rsstype=tag&tag=green Over a third of the greenhouse gas emissions related to the consumption of goods in wealthy nations actually occur in developing countries, according to a new analysis by researchers with the Carnegie Institution. Annually, each person if the United ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/190193?rsstype=tag&tag=green Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:50:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189615?rsstype=tag&tag=green A new species of cuttlefish has been discovered on the Southern tip of India, according to The Hindu. Discovered in Tamil Nadu, along the coast of the town of Colachel, the species has been named sepia vecchioni.... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189615?rsstype=tag&tag=green Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:57:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189616?rsstype=tag&tag=green Facing habitat loss, pollution, climate change, and the devastating chytrid fungus, there has been little positive news about amphibians recently. However, a story out of Australia brings a much needed respite from bad news. In 2008 Luke Pearce, a fi... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189616?rsstype=tag&tag=green Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:32:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189617?rsstype=tag&tag=green There are few areas of research in tropical biology more exciting and more important than seed dispersal. Seed dispersal the process by which seeds are spread from parent trees to new sprouting ground underpins the ecology of forests worldwide. I... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189617?rsstype=tag&tag=green Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:52:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189618?rsstype=tag&tag=green Brazil and the United States have signed an agreement to worth together to reduce deforestation as part of an effort to slow climate change.... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189618?rsstype=tag&tag=green Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189620?rsstype=tag&tag=green Methane, a greenhouse gas 30 times more potent than carbon, is spewing from what was believed to be an impermeable barrier in Siberia in amounts equal to methane releases from the world's oceans. The discovery has lead researchers to fear the possibi... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189620?rsstype=tag&tag=green Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:00:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189622?rsstype=tag&tag=green To save Madagascar's embattled and beautiful amphibians, scientists are turning to the web. A new site built by herpetologists, Sahonagasy, is dedicated to gathering and providing information about Madagascar's unique amphibians in a bid to save them... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189622?rsstype=tag&tag=green Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:59:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189623?rsstype=tag&tag=green Twenty years of research has led Dr. Graham Jones of Australia's Southern Cross University to discover a startling connection between coral reefs and coastal precipitation. According to Jones, a substance produced by thriving coral reefs seed clouds ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189623?rsstype=tag&tag=green Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:26:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189627?rsstype=tag&tag=green The rare Indian rhinoceros is not safe from poachers even in national parks. In Nepal's world renowned Royal Chitwan National Park, twenty-four Indian rhinos (Rhinoceros unicornis) have been poached since the last census was taken in 2008. The most r... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189627?rsstype=tag&tag=green Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:29:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189628?rsstype=tag&tag=green Afghanistan's National Environment Protection Agency (NEP) has added 15 species to its Protected Species List, totaling 48 species now under protection. The new species includes the large-billed reed warbler, which was only recently discovered in the... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189628?rsstype=tag&tag=green Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:37:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189629?rsstype=tag&tag=green Mass extinction, ocean acidification, deforestation, pollution, desertification, and climate change: the environmental issues facing the world are numerous and increasingly global in nature. To respond more effectively, the United Nations is consider... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189629?rsstype=tag&tag=green Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:24:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189630?rsstype=tag&tag=green Oil palm plantations support substantially less biodiversity than natural forests when it comes to ant species, reports new research published in Basic and Applied Ecology. Tom Fayle, a University of Cambridge biologist, and colleagues sampled ant po... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/mongabay-environment-news/189630?rsstype=tag&tag=green Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:42:00 -0500