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Giant flamingo orgy will soon take place in Africa
Conditions are right in an alkaline lake in Tanzania for flamingos to have a big breeding season. We are rooting for them.
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Scientists can use satellites to track how much raw sewage Sandy deposited in our waterways
Satellites are letting scientists know what happened to all the sewage from Hurricane Sandy. Which we need to know about, even though it's uh, crappy news.
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A Policy That Unlocks Community Renewable Energy
Net metering is a common distributed renewable energy policy in the United States, allowing individuals to “turn back” their meter (and reduce their electric bill) by generating on-site electricity. But utility accounting systems typically prevent people from sharing the output from a single, common “community” solar or wind project. Virtual (or group or neighborhood) net […]
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The Dutch may actually have TOO MANY bikes
The number of cyclists the country has created has outstripped the capacity of its infrastructure.
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Union of Concerned Scientists Report Finds One-Third of US Coal Plants Ripe For Retirement
Today our friends at the Union of Concerned Scientists released an impressive report showing that as many as one-third of U.S. coal plants are due for retirement because they are outdated, lack modern pollution controls, and can no longer compete in the marketplace with other forms of energy. The report details the range of up […]
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Farm runoff leads to a rise in eight-legged frogs
The mutations are the work of a parasite -- the flatworm Ribeiroia ondatrae.
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Brazil plans to save endangered animals by cloning them
Pronto! Apontar! Clonar! (That's ready, set, clone, in Portuguese).
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Climate should be Obama’s No. 1 priority, say lots of people who aren’t tree-hugging enviros
The New Yorker calls on Obama to put climate action at the top of his agenda. So does Republican Christine Todd Whitman and other non-hippies.
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The moral logic of climate communication
Climate communicators have two moral obligations: (1) be accurate and (2) ensure that audiences understand and care. Too many people fixate on No. 1 and ignore No. 2.
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This talking seal is actually kind of spooky
Hoover sounds enough like a person that it's kind of scary.
