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Here’s what lightning looks like in 3-D
From our vantage point on the ground, lightning usually looks like a forked line from the sky to the ground. But it's way more complicated and cool, as this model of lightning from the D.C. derecho shows.
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More bad drought news: Drought makes hotter temperatures more likely
As we prepare to switch over to reporting on nothing but drought news, yet another story about how the bad drought is making things worse.
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Lobbyists spent $173.5 million trying to shape the 2008 farm bill
Food and Water Watch crunched the numbers, revealing both the scale and breakdown of the massive effort to pass the 2008 legislation.
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Spectacular image of the Southern Lights from space
If you need an excuse to love the planet, just hang around NASA’s site for a while — the images they post make it kind of hard not to feel awed about the Earth.
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Chevron announces plans to begin drilling in a free Iraq
Somewhere, George W. Bush breathes a sigh of relief.
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Why do ‘experts’ always lowball clean-energy projections?
Renewable energy evolves quickly and is hard to quantify, but experts' predictions last decade were way off. It makes you wonder what today's projections will look like in 2020.
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‘Water cafe’ sells filtered bottled tap water and nothing else
Bottled water is often just tap water in a bottle. A new store is basing their entire business plan on that concept: They sell nothing but bottled tap water.
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U.S. Navy unveils its ‘great green fleet’ with some red-white-and-blue machismo
Exercises near Hawaii reveal that the U.S. Navy is committed to both biofuels and zingers.
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Here is a very, very gross picture of mayflies
My first thought when looking at this photo (posted by Reddit user ILikeWhereThisIsGoin, who probably doesn’t) was “oh, a lawnmower must have exploded! Look at all those grass clippings. All those perfectly innocuous, not-alive grass clippings.” But no, that’s just thousands and thousands of mayflies. Still perfectly innocuous, in the sense that they won’t hurt […]
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City officials are waging a war on gardens
We've heard one too many stories in which people decide to use their yards to grow some fresh vegetables, only to have city officials come down hard on them, forcing them to tear out their food or bulldozing the gardens themselves.
