It's Déjà Vu all over again: An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP's massive oil spill. In other green news this week, the US Geological Survey has released a new report on the state of glacier retreat in the Himalaya, stating that "Many of Asia's glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change"; Animal Planet's new miniseries Blood Dolphin delves deeper into the dolphin hunts in Japan; and we reveal exclusive photos of secret titan redwood trees, located ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Small debris-free plateau glacier with glacier lakes at Gangrinchemzoe Pass at 5,200 m, south of the main Himalayan divide, Bhutan. Photo via USGS In case you were convinced otherwise by the quasi-scandal of 'Himalayagate' earlier in the year: The US Geological Survey has released a new report on the state of glacier retreat in the Himalaya and it makes perfectly clear the situation, "Many of Asia's glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change. This retreat impacts water supplies to millions of people, increases the likelihood of outburst floods that threaten life and proper...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: National Heritage Unless the very worst predictions come true (which is perfectly possible), then it is fair to assume there will be winners and losers from climate change. We've already heard about Greenlander's celebrating increased access to natural resources, and even exploring the idea of bottled iceberg water. Now another segment of the global population...Read the full story on TreeHugger

photo via flickr Notoriously publicity shy Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish climate skeptic known for saying outrageous things about climate change, has seemingly changed his tune. Yesterday, the UK's Guardian reported that Lomborg makes a new claim in his upcoming book: we should confront climate change now and invest huge sums for technology development and deployment. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: OedipuSphinx (Creative Commons) A few years ago I got into a heated debate about Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth with a green-minded friend of mine. My hippy friend couldn't stand the movie—not because of anything it said, but because of the 'hypocrisy' of flying around the world to preach about climate change. "Doesn't he know this sends his carbon footprint through the roof?!" exclaimed my irate drinking buddy. "He probably doesn't care." replied I. "Nor should he."...Read the full story on TreeHugger