Antarctica's Summer Ice Melt Hits Dismal Milestone

April 15, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Antarctica's Summer Ice Melt Hits Dismal Milestone CANBERRA (Reuters) - The summer ice melt in parts of Antarctica is at its highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British researchers reported on Monday, adding new evidence of the impact of global warming on sensitive Antarctic glaciers and ice shelves.  Continue reading... The Hidden Costs Of Environmentally-Damaging Businesses BP Manager Takes The Stand Boat Filled With Smuggled Meat Crashes Into Protected Reef PHOTOS: Rare Camel, Sumatran Tiger Cub And More Animals Antarctica's Ice Melt Hits Dismal Milestone Fire Wipes Out Reptile House At Scotland Zoo Antarctica's Ice Melt Hits Dismal Milestone PHOTO: What Is Flowing Out Of That Pipe? Antarctica's Ice Melt Hits Dismal Milestone MARY J. LOFTUS Documenting a Life in the Woods Ever wonder what it would be like to live deep in a forest for 50 years? Me either. But that's exactly what Harvard graduate Bill Coperthwaite has done, living a self-sustaining life in a three-story yurt in the Maine woods for more than five decades, attracting a near-cult status and fan following. Continue reading... HENRY HENDERSON City Hall Continues Investing to Give Chicago the River it Deserves Change comes slow. Especially when it runs headlong into 150 years of history. That is certainly the case with the Chicago River, a waterway long maligned and mistreated at the heart of this city. Continue reading... STEVEN COHEN The Sustainability Generation The issue of environment and sustainability has already moved from the fringe of political awareness and our policy agenda to its center. In the next decade, this will only increase as the sustainability generation comes of age. Continue reading... BEN GOLDFARB A River Changes Course at the Yale Environmental Film Festival: Interview With Filmmaker Kalyanee Mam Although demolished trees provide the film its unsettling backdrop, its real focus is the three families, and the meditative rhythm of their lives: hands rooting for potatoes, scythes mowing through swathes of cane, fish cleavers thumping against chopping blocks. Continue reading... BARBARA A. FINAMORE 8 Ways That California and China Can Work Together to Reduce Pollution and Protect the Climate China has made significant progress in energy efficiency but still requires twice as much energy to produce one unit of GDP as the world average. Enormous opportunities still remain in both California and China to save energy more cheaply than it can be produced. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003