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New green energy superhero KidWind manages to out-dork Captain Planet
One of the main challenges when you’re trying to change attitudes about the environment -- how do you make it cool to care?
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Climate scientist: Screw this, I’m going to go make pickles
Is there any job more depressing than climate scientist? It’s no wonder Addie Rose Holland decided to pickle things for a living instead.
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This guy is putting the Earth up for auction, and it’s only $123 million
You're face to face with the man who sold the world on Yahoo Auctions.
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![Voters wait in line outside the Ohio Union to cast their ballots during the U.S. presidential election at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio November 6, 2012.]()
![Voters wait in line outside the Ohio Union to cast their ballots during the U.S. presidential election at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio November 6, 2012.]()
Cities 2012: The races we’re watching
The future of U.S. cities hangs in the balance today. Here are the races that will have special bearing on our urban lives.
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Weary New Jersey residents face another ordeal: Voting [VIDEO]
With basic supplies still limited, the election is "the furthest thing from our minds," one resident says. Still, officials are scrambling to keep the polls open Tuesday.
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Hedgehog rescued from potato chip bag by professional hedgehog-rescuers
A hedgehog crawled into a potato chip bag outside a supermarket in Weston-super-Mare. After a three-hour ordeal, it was rescued, and is fine, and still cute.
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British charity is recycling ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ as toilet paper
Fifty Shades of Grey, for the uninitiated, is a madly popular, rather trashy book in which a young woman has an affair with an older businessman.
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Colorado’s Community Solar Program Allots 9 Megawatts in 30 Minutes
When you subtract out shady roofs, renters, and other factors, only about 25% of Americans have a place to install solar power. With the high upfront cost of a complete system, the potential solar universe shrinks further. That changes with “community solar.” After a long wait on the state’s Public Utilities Commission to finalize the […]
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Rare whale seen for the first time only to die hours later
Before 2010, no one had ever seen the spade-toothed beaked whale in the flesh, let alone alive.
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This post-Sandy image will seriously mess with your head
This dude either has amazing core strength or lives in a freaky sideways universe.
