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World Nuclear Electricity Generation Down 5 Percent Since 2006
By J. Matthew Roney World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as plants retire faster than new ones are built. In fact, the actual electricity generated at nuclear power plants fell 5 percent between 2006 and 2011. In 2011, following Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 13 nuclear […]
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Massive Crowds Turning Out to Oppose Coal Exports
“It’s not our job in the Northwest to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying fossil fuel industry.” That’s what a former West Virginian, who now lives in Oregon, told federal officials this week at one of the many recent blockbuster public hearings on coal exports. Crowds have turned out by the thousands — literally overflowing […]
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This 15-year-old is fighting to keep flame-retardant chemical out of Gatorade
Sarah Kavanagh is 15, a vegetarian, and a resident of Hattiesburg, Miss. She also sometimes drinks Gatorade.
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Watch a baby hippo learn how to eat
Aw, look at her trying to figure out why hippo food pellets look so unappetizing!
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This 40-foot Christmas tree is made of 40,000 recycled plastic bottles
Kaunas, Lithuania killed two turtledoves with one stone: no trees had to die, and a lot of trash found a new life.
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Hot tip: It’s hard to mount a camera onto a shark
Brb, going to catch a shark, control it, and get in the water with it. No bigs.
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Now someone is trying to sell human-poop coffee
Joke? Not a joke? What avid, Portland-dwelling Grist List reader wants to respond to this ad and find out?
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Signs of the apocalypse: Kangaroo-on-dog belly rubs, cats nursing hedgehogs
We know, we know, it's totally irrational to think that the world is going to end on Dec. 21. But then you see something like a kangaroo giving a dog a belly rub ...
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Giving cars their own version of the internet could reduce crashes by 80 percent
Networking vehicles might cut down on accidents as much as 80 percent.
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Drought hits Colorado ranchers, and polluting oil drillers deliver another blow
Sheep farmers are suffering from Colorado's persistent drought. Meanwhile, oil and gas companies pollute some of the water that remains.
