Rare Conservation Links

"New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg paid a visit to the world's largest offshore wind farm. He liked what he saw."

"Climate scientists say Colombia's glaciers could disappear within 15 years. Wet highland areas that provide much of the country's fresh water are getting warmer and drier. And each year, flooding becomes more severe. The coastal area of Tumaco has become an example of how environmental and security pressures are undermining previously stable communities."

Some of the most stunning trees on Earth.

Some amazing trees from around the world.

"Degraded peatlands contribute to almost 50% of Indonesia's GHG emissions; yet development in peatlands probably contribute less than 1 % to the national economy (GDP)."

They're also for foxes.

Black Friday is not Earth Day part II.

"We know, for example, that Portland has actually reduced its aggregate carbon emissions since 1990 despite growing 18 percent in population, largely due to land-use and transportation strategies that stress infill locations, walkable neighborhoods, and transit-oriented development."

British supermarkets are driving a new wave of rapid destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms responsible for illegal deforestation, according to a three-year investigation by Greenpeace

"Here's a good idea being proposed by Michigan Lt. Governor John Cherry: tax wasteful water bottle sales and funnel the money into something that could use a little pocketbook padding-education."

Photos and video of a 18-week-old, 17-pound Giant Panda cub taking its first steps.

"Now imagine, for a moment, if you lost control of the thermostat in your home or office; you would be pretty uncomfortable, right? Thankfully, most of us are fortunate enough to resolve this with a phone call or two (or three, depending on your maintenance guy). The Arctic isn't so lucky. It's warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, causing seasonal ice to melt at an astounding rate. According to NASA, since 1979, the average decline of sea ice per decade is almost 10 percent."

The tiny spectral tarsier, one of the shortest and most primitive primates in the world, is caught on camera hunting at night in the jungle of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

"China now has the fastest train in the world. It runs from the central city of Wuhan down to the south coast, at a speed of more than 380km/h."

"Google.org demonstrated a new platform on Thursday that, if implemented in conjunction with a proposed United Nations program, could provide a significant tool to combat climate change. Its new "high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine" can process terabytes of information on thousands of Google servers while giving access to the results online. The platform, which was demonstrated on Thursday at the International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, would allow anyone using the tool to monitor whether or not trees were being chopped down in a given forest. It analyzes satellite images to show forest changes over a given time period."

"I believe the green economy is coming. That's not a question of if it's going to happen, it's just when it's going to happen. The sooner the better for me, because the jobs of the future lie in energy independence and cleaning up the environment…. Why can't America have the cleanest air?"

"More than 1,700 scientists have signed a statement to defend global warming research. The petition has been organised by the Met Office in the wake of the stolen emails row."

"In 2006, Ron Suskind published "The One Percent Doctrine," a book about the U.S. war on terrorists after 9/11. The title was drawn from an assessment by then-Vice President Dick Cheney, who, in the face of concerns that a Pakistani scientist was offering nuclear-weapons expertise to Al Qaeda, reportedly declared: "If there's a 1% chance that Pakistani scientists are helping Al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response." Cheney contended that the U.S. had to confront a very new type of threat: a 'low-probability, high-impact event.' Soon after Suskind's book came out, the legal scholar Cass Sunstein, who then was at the University of Chicago, pointed out that Mr. Cheney seemed to be endorsing the same "precautionary principle" that also animated environmentalists. Sunstein wrote in his blog: "According to the Precautionary Principle, it is appropriate to respond aggressively to low-probability, high-impact events - such as climate change."

Living in Manhattan for a couple with two cats in 175 square feet is impressive, if not a little crazy.

Incredible pictures of garbage city outside of Cairo. They need to send Wall-E here.

"Despite anger from developing countries over the leaked document, the negotiations are still on track for success."