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Image: From video supplied by Dane Havard, via Daily Motion This gives the term "bear hug" a whole new meaning. You will appreciate the frightened embrace mama bear gives her young one after watching this video of a mother bear rescuing her cub from a fishing net, with the help of an Alaskan fisherman. When Dane Havard and a friend came home from a fishing trip, they found a mother trying to free one of her cubs that had entangled itself in a fishing net in a small stream running behind ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Here we go again... a pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy Partners has leaked 800,000-840,000 gallons of oil into a creek flowing into the Kalamazoo River near Battle Creek, Michigan. On a more positive note, the Zephyr solar plane finally landed this week at the US Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona after 14 days and 24 minutes, setting a new record. In BP oil spill news, a new report by The Center for Public Integrity reveals that, in the hours after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caught on fire, the US Coast Guard failed to follow its own internal firefighting procedures, potentially causing the rig to sin...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Bitter Melon Trellis by the National Bitter Melon Council. Photo by Hiroko Kikuchi A series of statements about sick strawberries, bitter melons and the violent history of potatoes have been made with a collection of several gardens designed by artists and planted throughout the grounds of Los Angeles County Art Museum. The creative gardens are part of its year-long EAT LACMA show and events, including an exhibition from the permanent collection of food in art. Guess which food is most commonly depicted? ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Helicopter delivered 2011 Ford Explorer. Image credit:Advanced Autozone. This says a lot about how far the "green" movement is from where the private, profitable transportation business is headed. A Ford Explorer, featuring inflatable seat belts, was recently copter-delivered before a large air show audience - at the Experimental Aircraft Association's Read the full story on TreeHugger

Bison harvested from the Delta Junction Alaska herd, a controlled hunt. Image credit:OutdoorsDirectory.com I love the American Bison. Love to watch them in the wild and love to eat them. Just as they did back in the 1800's, cattle ranchers and farmers continue to dislike them. In the Alaskan Delta Junction region, for example, there is an ongoing debate over how best to manage free ranging bison. Farmers want to fence Delta bison out of croplands and make the wild herd of around 400 head even smalle...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Credit: First Solar. Enbridge, the Canadian company behind the recent oil spill in Michigan's Calhoun County near Marshall, just happens to also be behind construction of the largest photovoltaic solar energy facility in North America. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image Credit: All photos courtesty of Urbanbolisimo It looks like as a green destination, Spain is pulling ahead. The European country has emerged as a solar energy leader and its wind power industry is growing by leaps and bounds. So when Spanish design blog Urbanbolisimo reported that San Vicente de Raspeig, in eas...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Küre Mountains National Park (L) is on its way to becoming part of a protected European park network, while demonstrators in Ankara (R) were arrested for protesting nuclear power. Photos via Turkish Adventures (L) and Today's Zaman (R). With summer in full swing in Turkey, the season's regular environmental woes have again come to the fore. Helicopters dropping water have become a common sigh...Read the full story on TreeHugger

photo: Europe 2 You I've never been a fan of most wedding registries because I cannot stand the idea of having what everyone else has, or giving whatever everyone else gives for that matter. In addition, the sheer consumption of it all is quite a turn off. I am obsessed with finding miscellaneous kitchen items made by local potters, reclaimed materials, and now, these vintage and antique wares from Europe 2 You<...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Courtesy photo. Talk about a double dose of green fashion fun: Designer Raina Blyer, of Ryann and Creem, has collaborated with handbag designer Allison McGowan of TEICH on a multifunctional belt/wristlit -- a modern approach to the fanny pack -- that can be worn together or separ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Bedbug. Image credit:wikipedia Bedbugs are are becoming quite the urban plague again, resurgent and causing much misery in US cities after decades of being a relatively rare problem. Some methods of being rid of bed bugs, these days, are pretty awful from an environmental standpoint: like cooking an entire apartment building to bake them out, repeatedly washing all cloths and linens in hot water, and paying for multiple (often ineffective) pesticide applications. It gets worse....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Cleaning the supply chain is one of the challenges of Walmart's sustainability project. Image credit: williamcho/Flickr This guest post was written by Rand Waddoups, senior manager of sustainability at Walmart. Last July, we announced that we would lead in the creation of a Sustainable Product Index—a tool that will help manufacturers, merchants, customers and other retailers make more sustainable purchasing decisions. During the last 12 months, we have learned this process is g...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Photo via Free Extras According to some of the mainstream media, anyway After taking a look back to assess the media's coverage of the BP spill this week, I think only one internet-born acronym will suffice to convey my opinion. And that, of course, is WTF. It seems like we've been bombarded with headlines and stories that were cranked out directly by BP's PR machine -- only way rosier than BP would likely venture. Stories about how all that dern oil has just up and vanished! How BP must be doing an amazing job of skimming, and how all of us silly worrywarts were up in arms over nothin...Read the full story on TreeHugger

photo: jurveston via flickr Algae biofuels are probably the most touted future hope to replace large amounts of petroleum-based liquid fuels with a renewable source. However, a new study in Energy and Fuels shows that when you grow that algae in bioreactors made up of clear tubes, so much energy is required that the carbon footprint of the biofuel is o...Read the full story on TreeHugger

The Chevy Volt will soon be launched commercially, and so GM is intensifying its campaign to convince potential buyers. Here are only some of the recent Volt news items to hit the wire: a Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: AP Photo/NOAA The Sapphire Princess, a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, struck a 43 foot long female humpback whale on Wednesday, causing it to become lodged in an undersea protuberance of the bow. The ship, en route to Juneau, Alaska, was forced to make a detour to Douglas Island, where the whale was removed from the bow and taken into the custody of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A necropsy will be performed to determine the cause of death....Read the full story on TreeHugger

photo: Franco Folini via flickr Even though it often seems that even mentioning climate change or pricing carbon on a national basis is an utter nonstarter, here's another example of how states aren't waiting for the Feds to get their act together: The Sacramento Bee reports on progress with the Western Climate Initiative. Specifically, California and 10 ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

They may seem like two disparate topics: climate change and an archaic Senate procedural rule. But they have more in common than you might think. Thanks to the Senate filibuster rule, essentially any piece of legislation needs 60 votes, a super-majority, if it hopes to pass. This is one of the reasons that the climate bill was killed in the Senate -- it could only muster a normal majority, like 55 votes. In a true democracy, that should be enough to fly. But in our political culture, it's still miles away, and reason enough to sound a deat...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Tourists meet Tortoise. Credit Brian Merchant Yesterday Brian wrote Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List, concluding: If anything, the problems have only grown more complex and fundamental -- there's now a growing island population that must learn to live sustainably with severely limited resources, and a bevy of threats from other invasive species remain at large. Three TreeHuggers, Brian Merchant, myself and founder Graham Hill have been to the Galapagos in three consecutive years, and w...Read the full story on TreeHugger