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Mattel to investigate suppliers for links to rain forest destruction
Mattel Inc., the world’s biggest toy company, said it would direct its suppliers to stop buying wood pulp from Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), an Indonesian-Chinese company that has clear-cut vast swaths of Indonesia’s rain forest.
Americans Still Split on Global Warming, Poll Shows
In the first of four reports based on the poll, the researchers estimate that 64 percent of American adults now believe that the planet is warming, up slightly from 61 percent last year. When asked to assume that global warming is happening and to ascribe a cause, only 47 percent said that it was caused mostly by human activity, however, down from 50 percent last year.
Former Interior secretary calls out Obama on the environment
President Obama has failed to answer Republican attacks on environmental safeguards “forcefully and persuasively” and to articulate his own vision for conserving American wilderness and water, former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt charged Tuesday.
Researcher says climate change may be cooling California
Spring passed California by, and summer remains in hiding. Nine tornadoes have torn up the Sacramento Valley from Oroville to Fairfield. A giant Sierra snowpack, still frozen fast, has put innumerable summer adventures on hold.
Fracking In California Prompts State Legislators To Introduce Regulation Bill
In a place where oil exploration long co-existed with agriculture, a three-story contraption humming day and night in the heart of Santa Barbara wine country struck residents as a mere curiosity until someone uttered the petroleum industry’s dirty word: fracking.
Introducing the Solar Powered Bikini
It’s hard to power your gadgets when you’re at the beach or by the pool, which is one of the many reasons this solar powered bikini designed by Andrew Schneider is a fantastic concept. The solar powered bikini is part of Scheider’s iDrink line and powers electrical devices with the USB cable attached to the garment.
Visualizing California Climate Change
If you’re like me, and you spend a good part of every day thinking about climate change and California, you may have already lost yourself in the treasure trove of climate data and mapping fun that is Cal-Adapt, a comprehensive series of online tools just released by the California Natural Resources Agency and the California Energy Commission.
Summers will keep getting hotter, Stanford researchers say
While California experiences cooler-than-expected temperatures for early June, the rest of the country is reeling under a blazing heat wave. According to a team of Stanford University researchers, those furnace-hot temperatures soon may become the summer norm for North America. Nations in more tropical zones could experience “the permanent emergence of unprecedented summer heat.”
