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• Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
  Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.
  
• Dell makes new green move with bamboo packaging
  Bamboo has sprouted all over. It's being used everywhere from floorboards to tableware to inline skates and T-shirts, as consumers increasingly seek out products considered gentler on the Earth.
  
• New movie theater mixes plush with enviro-friendly
  With plush lounge chairs, gourmet appetizers, a VIP auditorium and the latest digital and 3-D equipment, Chattanooga's newest movie theater complex doesn't need toilets that flush rain water to sell tickets.
  
• Rare iceberg spotted off island south of Australia
  A large iceberg was spotted off an island about halfway between Antarctica and Australia, a rare sight in waters so far north, Australian scientists said Thursday.
  
• Russia steps up effort to save tigers
  Vladimir Putin has championed the endangered Siberian tiger. And now Russia is helping plan an ambitious program to double the global tiger population by 2022.
  
• US health care sector is a fairly green giant
  Health care, a giant in the U.S. economy, may be a gentle giant when it comes to greenhouse gases.
  
• Dollars & Sense: Green dreams
  Looking for a greener sleep solution? Latex mattresses last longer and can go in the compost bin at the end of their lives.
  
• Mexican environmentalists denounce beach ruling
  Environmentalists expressed outrage Thursday after a Mexican judge upheld a requirement that they post a $1.1 million bond to pursue a suit against a project to rebuild Cancun beaches with tons of sand extracted from the Caribbean.
  
• CEO: Utilities must join climate-change debate
  The chief executive of a North Dakota-based electric power cooperative says utilities must be engaged in the climate-change debate and use their unified voice.
  
• Negotiators scale back UN climate pact ambitions
  With the U.S. Congress still struggling to agree on sharp cuts in greenhouse gases or how to fund them, European officials said Thursday they were now striving for a political agreement instead of a new treaty to allow the U.S. and other rich nations to make commitments that are not legally binding.
  
• Minnesota ranks fourth in wind-power capacity
  Minnesota continues to punch above its weight in generating electricity from the wind.
  
• New rules for bagging leaves
  Q What's the "greenest" way to deal with leaves? I usually put them in a large plastic garbage bag, but that doesn't seem very eco-friendly.
  
• Report: 2 million pounds of toxics dumped into MInnesota rivers in 2007
  Industries in Minnesota discharged more than 2 million pounds of toxic substances into the state's rivers and streams in 2007, according to a new report by an environmental advocacy group.
  
• Central-air units use power even when off
  A reader writes: Is it true that central air-conditioning units will continue to use electricity all winter long, even when they're not running?
  
• Obama: Government to set global warming example
  President Barack Obama wants the federal government to set the example when it comes to global warming.
  
• Laptops helping local governments conserve
  Many metro cities are moving toward paperless meetings and services.
  
• U takes high-tech house to D.C. for solar contest
  The University of Minnesota is one of 20 colleges that has a team in the nation's capital to demonstrate a high-tech, high-efficiency solar-powered house as part of an international competition.
  
• EPA moves to regulate smokestack greenhouse gases
  Proposed regulations would require power plants, factories and refineries to reduce greenhouse gases by installing the best available technology and improving energy efficiency whenever a facility is significantly changed or built.
  
• North Branch legislator named to White House climate change group
  The Obama administration has tapped a low-profile legislator from North Branch to lead a newly formed coalition on energy and climate change legislation.
  
• Life on Earth grew in spurts
  Life on our planet expanded from tiny single-celled microbes billions of years ago to the ponderous whales and lofty sequoia trees that are today's biggest living things, scientists say.
  
• Colleges greening up classes, campuses
  Schools meet demand by offering an increasing number of majors and degrees focused on the environment.
  
• Feds: $320M to clean up Mississippi
  The federal effort involving Minnesota and 11 other states is aimed at shrinking Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone"
  
• Recession in recycling
  Hard times for pure recyclers such as Eureka could mean higher costs down the road for many cities in the metro area.
  
• Metro Transit getting $1 million for new buses
  The transit agency is getting federal stimulus money to replace 35 of its small diesel buses. Half of them will be hybrids.
  
• Met Council gets $1.1 million to buy gas hybrid electric buses
  Two green transit projects in Minnesota are among 43 nationwide receiving $100 million in funding from the Economic Recovery Act, the Obama administration announced Monday.
  

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