Mary Robinson: 'I feel a terrible sense of urgency' | From the Guardian | The Guardian

After 13 years with the UN, former Irish president Mary Robinson is coming home to her debt-ridden country – not to retire, but to fight for 'climate justice' for all the world's poor

National Trust's latest PR push – fresh air or hot air? | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The Trust is selling jam jars of fresh, 'stress-relieving' country air to city folk – is it a bit of fun or patronising PR guff?

US to lobby for endangered species listing for polar bear | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Melting sea ice in the Arctic will kill thousands of bears in coming years, the US says, and continued commercial trade must not be allowed to make the situation worse

Switchboard, from NRDC :: Zak Smith's Blog :: Helping Polar Bears in the Gulf of Arabia

Yes, you read that right. NRDC is working to save polar bears in the Gulf of Arabia – Doha, Qatar, to be exact.

Peter Berkowitz: Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Rooted in the Dysfunction of Today's Universities - WSJ.com

The notion of objective truth has been abandoned and the peer review process gives scholars ample opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies.