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A bee flies by a field in Kansas. Photo: Sam Fuhr related articles By TDG Community Bombus franklini, a North American bumblebee, was last seen on August 9, 2006. Professor Emeritus Robbin Thorp, an entomologist at UC Davis, was doing survey work on Mt. Ashland in Oregon when he saw a single worker on a flower, Sulphur eriogonum, near ...read more

Plenty of technology and IT vendors tell you they’re the greenest companies on the planet. Apple, though, recently updated its Web site to reveal in great detail exactly where its greenhouse emissions come from — and to provide information about the the environmental impacts of ...read more

Getty Images The needs of the environment, said the California gubernatorial candidate Margaret C. Whitman, “have to be balanced with the needs of our people.” Margaret C. Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay who declared her candidacy for the California governorship on Tuesday, hopes to roll back California’s law requiring deep cuts in ...read more

Getty Images The needs of the environment, said the California gubernatorial candidate Margaret C. Whitman, “have to be balanced with the needs of our people.” Margaret C. Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay who declared her candidacy for the California governorship on Tuesday, hopes to roll back California’s law requiring deep cuts in ...read more

Photo: David Birkbeck / Istock related articles By Dan Shapley A new scientific report that ranks 10 world cities for their contribution to global warming has a surprising conclusion: Denver is the most-polluting city. By a long shot. Denver’s per capita greenhouse gas emissions were twice the median, and four-times as much as the lowest-emitting city on the list, ...read more

When it comes to reducing CO2, we almost always talk about power plants and vehicles. But a new study by the EPA (pdf) shows that, if you consider the whole life-cycle, a huge chunk of greenhouse gas emissions (42%) are caused by the way people in the US “procure, produce, deliver and dispose of goods ...read more

SAN JOSE, CA — A combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy and promotion of more environmentally friendly behavior will be used to cut eBay’s greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2012. The e-commerce giant unveiled its first greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal this week in ...read more

Scientists have unearthed striking evidence for a sudden ancient collapse in plant biodiversity. A trove of 200 million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East Greenland tells the story, carrying its message across time to us today. Results of the research appear in this week's issue of the journal Science. The researchers were surprised to find that ...read more

Shutterstock Should “even-age” forest management be part of a carbon offset protocol? Air regulators in California are poised to adopt a new framework for measuring and managing greenhouse gas offsets associated with forest projects. But some environmental groups are balking at a provision that they say leads to the unhealthy practice of clear-cutting — or ...read more

I’m always amazed by the number of folks who think that most of Central Park is some kind of natural habitat of indigenous plants, a pristine terrain onto which we plunked our bike paths, boathouses and pretzel vendors. In reality, nearly every square inch of Central Park was painstakingly landscaped back in the mid-nineteenth century to ...read more