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Photo: CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture / cc As the President of Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA, which oversees regulationion in the world's largest rainforest, Curt Trennepohl has a very important position -- the only problem is, he says that protecting the environment isn't part of it. In an interview with Australia's "60 Minutes", when asked if his job was to guard the...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo: Lucas Fréchin From treehouses to micro-houses, we're well aware of the simple pleasures of living on a smaller ecological footprint -- especially out in beautiful sylvan surroundings like Le Vent des Forêts in the Meuse region of France. In creating idyllic dwellings for a 5,000 hectare forest overseen by six villages, which hosts artists for summer residencies as well as showcasing c...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo: Flickr, CC Harvesting the Wind The French government of Nicolas Sarkozy has launched a €10 billion ($14.26 billion) tender to build about 1,200 wind turbines in 5 different offshore wind farms. The goal is to diversify France's energy generation (they are very reliant on nuclear, which accounts for about 80% of their electricity generation) with renewable sources and to have 23% of France's energy come from renewable sources by 2020. The wind farms will be located off France's coast on the North and West and sh...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo: Flickr, CC Sh.. Just Got Real As we've written about previously, tuna's in trouble, and it's not just limited to one species and/or one geographical region. A new study conducted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and published in the prestigious journal Science found that 5 out of the 8 tu...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo credit: James Bowe via Flickr/CC BY Sigh. After rejecting a measure that would have fast-tracked the repeal of a law signed by George W. Bush to tighten up efficiency requirements for light bulbs, the House of Reps passed an amendment that would prohibit spending to enforce those standards. Read the full story on TreeHugger

photo: Marcus Bölt/Creative Commons Today is the day! As I reported last week Germany airline Lufthansa has now begun using biofuels on about one-third of its flights from Frankfurt to Hamburg. The fuel is supplied by Finland's Neste Oil and until now, apart from officially not containing palm oil (phew!), the...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo: Screengrab from Comedy Central It's sort of surprising that Stephen Colbert's caricature of a Foxy uber-conservative pundit has lasted this long -- he gets a remarkable amount of mileage out of his now-famous persona. Sure, his satiric character's participation in real-life politics has upped the stakes. But regular old bits like this remind us all why he's still going strong: I never have, and probably never will again, see such a comprehensive, hilarious takedown of fracking. Watch:...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo courtesy of CSIRO Huge swaths of the Indian Ocean are considered extremely dangerous, thanks to a still-ascendant rate of attacks by Somali pirates in those waters. 61% of all attacks on the open ocean occur in those waters. And that presents climate scientists looking to obtain a comprehensive picture of global ocean temperatures with a major problem. So, they've devised a plan: With the help of the U.S. and Australian Navies, they'll launch 19...Read the full story on TreeHugger