Articles

Look out, cyclists: Southern states have the worst drivers

Here are the 10 states with the worst drivers (and the 10 with the best). How'd your state shape up?

Holly Richmond Culture

This weird deep-sea worm has a dick on its head

“It’s an extreme example of males being reduced to simply a bag of sperm,” says marine biologist Adrian Glover.

Holly Richmond Culture

Ask Umbra: What’s the best way to seal up a drafty house?

A reader wonders if there a way to keep the cold out this winter. Umbra is just getting warmed up.

Ask Umbra® Technology

Five years after Tennessee coal-slurry disaster, EPA has produced no new rules

In December 2008, a million gallons of fly-ash sludge polluted Tennessee land and rivers. Since then, the EPA has done little to protect Americans from similar accidents.

John Upton Climate & Energy

Your cable box is a vampire, but it’s about to get more efficient

The Department of Energy struck a deal with the pay-TV industry to make DVRs and other set-top boxes suck up less power.

Ben Adler Technology

How to land a green job in 2014

Our prognosticator has traveled throughout the green employment community and returned with some predictions to get you going.

Kevin Doyle Technology

Meals with wheels: A fresh food movement rolls into Boston

Fresh Food Generation keeps it local, even in winter -- and affordable too. Here are a few of their secret ingredients.

Laura Onstot Culture

First oil shale mine in U.S. is coming to Utah

As if we didn’t already have enough filthy, inefficient, unconventional oil-extraction techniques in use in North America, here’s one more.

John Upton Technology

Parisian artists gift-wrapped the inside of a subway car

Why? Just because they thought it would be fun.

Sarah Laskow Culture

Stick it to ’em: Scientists call for labeling tar-sands oil

The E.U. is considering a system to label gasoline according to how much carbon it emits. Oil companies and Canada don't like the idea.