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Yet another reason birds are weird: They like to bathe in ants
For you, that might be a flashback to an acid trip. For birds, it’s … well, it almost definitely feels good.
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Farming the urban sea
In Long Island Sound, just outside New York City, new aquaculture projects promise to clean the water while raising low-input sustainable seafood in vertical underwater gardens.
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Is your jack-o’-lantern too interesting? Try these stencils from the Department of Energy
The Department of Energy has templates for a bumper crop of fun, hilarious jack-o'-lanterns: solar panels, wind turbines, and CFL bulbs.
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Make your clothes more delicious with buttons made of recycled food
British designer Hoyan Ip wants you to trim your clothes with food-based embellishments that look like a Fruit Roll-Up someone already ate.
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Powerful New Series Reveals the True Cost of Coal
The first time I watched this is powerful new video, it stopped me in my tracks. It’s the debut video for our latest project, a photo series from Sierra magazine called “The Cost of Coal.” I think you’ll agree — the stories and images of these families who are facing the loss of their homes, […]
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Meet New York Aquarium’s adorable new rescued baby walrus
Baby walrus Mitik is moving to New York, where he'll fit right in, because he has a mustache and likes to head-butt things.
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School cook in Sweden told to make her food less delicious
When you were growing up and you ate your school lunch of disgusting gristle-filled burgers and rubbery pizza and creamed chipped beef, did you ever think that one day there might be a school somewhere where the lunches were too good? Well, such is the case in the magical socialist paradise of Sweden. (You didn’t […]
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These grassroots heroes are fighting for food democracy
The recipients of this year's Food Sovereignty Prize represent the diversity of a powerful global movement promoting healthy food for all.
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Texas city moves 100-year-old tree rather than cut it down
When road construction threatened this 100-year-old, 260-ton oak, League City, Texas stepped up and moved it.
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Big Coal Wins Latest Battle to Blast Historic Blair Mountain
Is nothing sacred to coal companies in Appalachia? In a jaw-dropping display of contempt and disregard for the communities and landscapes where they mine coal, three coal companies back in 2009 challenged the listing of West Virginia’s Blair Mountain on the National Register of Historic Places. The companies, including mining behemoths Alpha Natural Resources and […]
