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Just look at this baby gazelle bouncing around. JUST LOOK AT IT
Worried about Sandy? Watch this ridiculous baby gazelle. You'll feel better, until you realize she lives right in the storm path.
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After three years on the lam, Tampa’s wild monkey is finally captured
For years, the monkey roamed around the city, making enemies, making friends, and always eluding capture. Then, earlier this month, it bit somebody.
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The cities of the future could be built out of animal blood
What's a cheap, potentially easy to make, sustainable building material? It's a brick made out of animal blood. Sounds tasty.
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Phish Food for thought: Even Burlington can get greener
Burlington, Vt., is the land of socialist senators and Ben & Jerry’s. But sustainability chief Jennifer Green says the town still has its work cut out for it.
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Frontline: Did the climate deniers win? Not so fast
A PBS "Frontline" special chronicles the rise of Tea Party-fueled climate skepticism during Obama's term -- a trend that already appears to be reversing.
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Big Coal Bullying Prompts University to Destroy Artwork
Bullied by coal companies and their allies in the Wyoming legislature, the University of Wyoming earlier this year caved to threats that millions of dollars in funding were in jeopardy if they didn’t remove an outdoor art installation on the university campus that Big Coal deemed offensive. The sculpture, “Carbon Sink: What Goes Around Comes […]
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What security experts can teach climate geeks about assessing risk
Jay Gulledge spent months talking to national security experts about how they approached uncertain, high-stakes problems. David Roberts chats with him about how the lessons can be applied to climate change.
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Baby echidna may be cutest, weirdest baby animal ever
Echidnas are spiny mammals that live in Australia and are like the weird cousins of duck-billed platypuses.
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The newest gourmet coffee is made out of elephant poop
You can pay $50 for the privilege of drinking coffee made from beans that an elephant shit out. Or you could just buy yourself a pair of pants.
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The Great Transition, Part I: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy
By Lester R. Brown The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way. As fossil fuel prices rise, as oil insecurity deepens, and as concerns about pollution and climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old energy economy, […]
