Saving the planet, one cruise at a time | Grist

Odd locations are not unusual for green-leaning conferences, but this one might take the cake. I'm en route to Miami for a conference aboard, ahem, a cruise ship. What better place to contemplate the fate of the Earth, ocean conservation, and ways to right the planet's social ills than on a giant diesel-powered city of excess? (Conference organizers, WTF?)

Too much is not enough for The Edge’s green mansion | Grist

U2’s The Edge is planning a mansion complex that’s a metonymy for post-Joshua Tree U2: It means well, really, but it’s just way, way over the top.

The five homes (!) averaging 10,500 square feet (!!) are supposed to be built to LEED Gold standards, so bravo to The Edge for that. But if you really want to be green, maybe a network of oversized houses full of buffalo and belly dancers and groupies and giant lemons and shit is NOT the way to go. And especially not when you’re building it in a pristine, environmentally sensitive area like The Edge’s Malibu plot.

Where have all the summer migratory birds gone? - CNA ENGLISH NEWS

The society is trying to determine the reasons why the summer migratory birds have not yet appeared, the executive said.

"Climate change may be one cause," he said.

Temperatures were abnormally low around the April 5 Tombsweeping Day this year.

"This was very unusual -- the cold weather might have deterred migratory birds from flying northward to Taiwan," he explained.