Intercontinental Rejection: Just after GM’s Hummer brand was discontinued in the U.S., China also spurned the gas-guzzler for environmental reasons. The powerhouse Asian nation aims to derive 15 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. ABC and Los Angeles Times

Whale of a Solution: Stopping the whale hunt could sequester some 9 million tons of carbon, a fact that has some experts proposing that whale conservation should count for carbon credits. Nature

Dirty Money: BP and Shell shareholders, especially green-oriented institutional investors, are demanding that those companies come clean about their probable involvement in extracting oil from Canada’s tar sands. Ecologist

Reptilian Repast: A new fossil discovery in India proves that 67 million years ago, snakes ate dinosaurs. National Geographic and Nature

Moon Skating, Anyone? A NASA probe found at least 600 millions ton of frozen water on the moon’s north pole. Wired

–Avital Binshtock
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