Latest Articles
-
BP sends more drilling rigs to the Gulf of Mexico than ever before
Deepwater Horizon disaster? Forgetaboutit. BP recently deployed two more oil-drilling rigs to the Gulf, taking its count to a record-breaking nine.
-
Wisconsin is solving icy roads like it solves everything else: With cheese
Wisconsin has an overabundance of a particular type of liquid waste -- cheese brine.
-
Google and Facebook green guys baffled why their companies are in ALEC
At a recent forum on the Internet industry’s support for green energy, Facebook and Google representatives could not explain why their companies are members of ALEC, the powerful lobbying organization that opposes that mission.
-
Bill Gates wants to make sexy condoms out of cow tendons
This is how your sausage wrapper gets made: with help from a California butcher.
-
![Capitol Building]()
![Capitol Building]()
The three anti-environmental bills that are wasting Congress’ time
House Republicans, joined by a handful of Democrats, have passed three egregious dirty-energy-promoting bills. But don't worry, they won't become law.
-
Your Splenda habit is bad for the earth
We pee out 90 percent of sucralose, and then it just hangs out in wastewater. NOT GOOD.
-
![]()
![]()
At U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, hunger games get serious
Fed up, young delegates to the U.N.'s famously ineffectual annual conclave push for more aid to countries inundated by climate disasters.
-
You can’t ignore the smog in China
The one embarrassing problem China is taking seriously.
-
Warsaw walkout: Big green groups bail on U.N. climate talks
For the first time ever, environmental groups have staged a mass walkout of a U.N. climate summit.
-
![]()
![]()
Ask Umbra: Are my newfangled lightbulbs making my house cold?
A reader wonders if those old, inefficient incandescents were actually keeping his flat toasty. Umbra sheds a little light on the subject.
