Sunday, January 20, 2013

Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Call to Halt Arctic Drilling

John Podesta, a former chief of staff in the Clinton administration, and Carol Browner, President Obama?s former climate change adviser, call on the president to block Shell?s drilling plans in the Arctic. ?Following a series of mishaps and errors, as well as overwhelming weather conditions, it has become clear that there is no safe and responsible way to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean,? they write. [Bloomberg View]

A look at the public relations campaign commissioned by the gas and oil industry to counter the anti-fracking message in the film ?Promised Land.? [P.R. Watch]

Researchers come face to face with one of the largest emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica after satellite imagery reveals their scat. Spread out on the ice are 9,000 of the birds, about three-quarters of them chicks. Researchers hope to learn how the species is faring with climate change, which is breaking up the sea ice early in some places. [National Geographic]

While most of the attention in recent days has been devoted to smog in Beijing, it is just one of hundreds of cities, mostly in Asia, where poisonous air is now the fastest-growing cause of death in urban populations. [The Guardian]

Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/on-our-radar-a-call-to-halt-arctic-drilling/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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