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Local chambers of commerce ask Romney and Obama for clean energy support

An alliance of 240 local chambers is calling for federal support for clean energy. Meanwhile, the U.S. Chamber drinks expensive cocktails made of gasoline.

Sea levels could rise 22 feet by the year 3000

Researchers have found that sea levels will rise for thousands of years to come, at least 1.1 meters by the year 3000 and maybe a lot more. So try and build your ark by then.

Now you can get text messages from a cow’s vagina

It's getting harder to tell when dairy cows are in heat. But never fear, farmers! Now their genitals can text you.

New poll shows that politicians can say people like solar, if they want

American voters like solar, according to a survey by the Solar Energy Industries Association. But not all of the poll data is convincing.

Report confirms fisheries are suffering, but offers hope

More than half the world’s fisheries are overexploited, and small-scale fisheries, the kind that disproportionately feed the world’s hungry (think of reef-fish which are decimated by industrial-sized fishing vessels) have it the worst according to a new study published last week by researchers at the University of California and the University of Washington. That’s the […]

The Ohio State University will soon be 25 percent wind-powered

OSU has signed a deal to get about 25 percent of its power from a wind farm, which will make the school 100 percent better than Michigan.

For you hipster entomologists, here’s a caterpillar that looks just like bacon

Supposedly this weird living bacon is actually a moth caterpillar. Made of bacon.

Notorious Northern Virginia coal plant officially retires

On a scorching hot day last July, I stood on the deck of a boat on the Potomac River and introduced Michael R. Bloomberg, philanthropist and mayor of New York City, who was there to announce a game-changing gift to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign. Behind us was the notorious, polluting Potomac River coal plant in […]

The Confluence Project is photographing every latitude/longitude intersection on Earth

Although volunteers have visited more than a third of the accessible confluence points, there are 10,166 out there waiting to be visited.

McDonald’s video claims their beef is not really that bad

McDonald's makes a video to show people that their beef is as pure as the driven snow, and even includes a few lol questions from wary consumers.