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An international purchase agreement revealed yesterday that the low-lying island nation of the Maldives has ordered an extremely large number of sandbags from multiple companies in the United States and Europe. A representative of the Maldives government responded to an e-mail question of what the bags are for as follows: "We are expecting a bit of flooding."
Continue reading...Thursday, February 11, 2010
Not so long ago, the TreeHumper investigative team did some in-depth reporting on the ClimateFence scandal. One of our revelations was that the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri is actually "one half of a set of anthropomorphized testicles." Like any good journalist or human being, we can man up to it and say: We were wrong.
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The latest hiccup in a decade-long battle over the Cape Wind project comes from the Mashpee Wampanoag nation, who claim that the 130 turbines that would be built in Nantucket Sound would hinder their ancient tradition of greeting the sunrise while lying naked on piles of casino profits.
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 5, 2010
In an era when eating organically, locally and chemical-free have become lasting trends, Andrew Glick of Carsonville, North Carolina, has found an elegant way to go about it: he eats people.
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 29, 2009
So you've decided to go a bit greener in 2010. Good for you! But since you're obviously a bit of a clueless bandwagon jumper, TreeHumper is here to provide some help on what you can do to help save the planet and put off our inevitable colonization of Mars.
Continue reading...Monday, December 21, 2009
Reactions to the last-minute Copenhagen Accord "signed" recently have ranged from dismissive to depressed to masturbatory. Here are some of those reactions, kinda.
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
Climate change deniers of the world rejoiced yesterday when Exxon-Mobil announced the discovery of a large deposit of denier fuel in Peru. The deposit, which preliminary estimates say could power the denial movement for at least another 15 years, lies underground about three hundred kilometers east of the Andean city of Cuzco.
Continue reading...Friday, December 11, 2009
Like so many people out there, we here at TreeHumper were deeply disturbed — deeply disturbed — by the revelations of possible massaging of data by climate experts at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. We dispatched our team of investigators to get to the bottom of the impropriety, and they’ve responded [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 10, 2009
If you need help finding your way to COP15 in Copenhagen, this handy roadmap will lead you all the way from 1950 into the land of the Danes.
Continue reading...Thursday, December 3, 2009
A coalition of several large environmental advocacy groups posted an open letter to the cows of the world asking them to hold in their flatulent methane emissions. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and cow farts contain a lot of it, thereby contributing heavily to global warming.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
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