Daily Roundup

California Green: As Obama appoints his California-heavy enviro team, Bob Hope Airport in Burbank (a gateway to L.A.) introduced a solar-powered hangar, making the aviation facility quite possibly the world’s greenest. L.A. Times

Hot Topic: As the climate-change conversation continued in Poznan, Poland today, the U.S. seemed particularly closed off. Dot Earth

Lost at Sea: A fifth of the world’s coral reefs are already gone, and the rest are facing the same dire fate. NYT

No Kidding: The BBC recently targeted that radical act of child-bearing as an environmental foe: BBC

Cat Call: A bird whose voice sounds like a tiger’s roar has been documented. NPR

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