Getting kicked while down: Three inches of snow fell on New York City yesterday, where more than 60,000 people remain without power after Superstorm Sandy. The snowstorm shut down transportation to Long Island for a few hours and slowed New Jersey's recovery efforts, but in the end, didn't screw up things too severely. New York Daily News, New York Times
Broken silence: Now that climate change is no longer a four-letter word for President Obama (it's 13 letters, we counted), Ezra Klein asks, what's he going to do about it? Washington Post
Withdrawal: We're always on the lookout for climate news that warns of our favorite foods becoming hard to come by. Coffee's already on that list of crops, but now there's even worse news. Wild arabica could die off by 2080, taking with it the genetic diversity that could help cultivated coffee plants adapt to changing climate conditions. We get the shakes just thinking about it. Reuters
Don't miss the bus: Climate writer and campaigner Bill McKibben kicked off a bus tour yesterday in which he'll drive around the country, trying to convince big institutions to divest from dirty energy. And the bus he's driving? It runs on sustainable fuel, of course. Seattle Times
Beware of this braille: Those little bumps on the skin of a crocodile's face? They are more sensitive than the human finger tip. Speaking of tips, don't touch a crocodile's face! Discover
Zzzz…zoning: Oregon's ReCode project is fighting to make the state's building code more friendly to green building. The group's winning, too! Ok, ok it's not the most exciting fight but it's important. FastCoExist
Puff Daddy: When biologist Stephen Kress came to the coast of Maine in 1969, he learned that Atlantic puffins had once lived there. So he decided he would bring them back. To convince puffins to nest on a Maine island, "he tried to think like a puffin," putting up decoys to convince the birds that other puffins were there already. Twelve years later, his first puffin chicks hatched. And now, 43 years later, he has more than 100 pairs of puffins living on the island. Slate
Contemplating our navels: A group of scientists is awed by what they found lurking in our belly buttons: "a terrible, yawning, richness of life." The typical umbilicus has about 50 species living in it, and while a few of those microbes show up in many navels, it's likely that the majority of your stomach's stowaways are really rare. Scientific American
