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Flock of 5,000 ducks stops traffic in city of 6 million people

Taizhou lies 190 miles south of Shanghai and has 6 million people, putting its size at “somewhere in between Los Angeles and New York City” on a U.S. scale and “just some town” on a Chinese one. One day recently, though, the streets were filled not with cars, scooters, or pedestrians, but with ducks. Thousands […]

The best pun about wind energy, you’re welcome

This made me laugh way, way harder than it should.

Today in weather events that are clearly not related to climate change

What could be causing all of these wildfires, floods, and heat waves? We may never know. It's not global warming, though. We know that.

Bye bye bumblebee: Honeybees aren’t the only pollinators in danger

The honeybee calamity has overshadowed the distressing fate of their native cousins, whose disappearance threatens the future of nearly every blooming wild plant.

NYC’s first day of summer: White hot, hungry for power

Temperatures on the east coast are spiking – and so is electricity usage. Take a sneak peek at the future.

50-million-year-old turtles having sex

Scientists in Germany have found fossils of turtles mating that are nearly 50 million years old. That makes them the oldest fossils of vertebrates going at it that we’ve found so far. I think this sort of thing needs more exposure in schools. Hey, kids: go into paleontology, and your big discovery could be ancient […]

Since 2001, one activist a week has died defending the environment

With increased competition for scarce resources, it's hard to believe that the problem won't get worse.

Look at this picture of the Arctic now, because it’s probably your last chance

This image (click to embiggen, click here to embiggen A LOT) was stitched together from photos taken by NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite. It shows the Arctic in all its glory — or anyway, all its remaining glory. The ice cover there has been decreasing fast enough that within 20 years, a photo of the Arctic […]

Romney opposes mercury rule, beclowns himself again

Let's take a minute to mock the Romney campaign's stance on mercury and other toxic power plant emissions.

The Christmas lights of the future will run on firefly juice

Fireflies make light without electricity, and by copying them, scientists have figured out how to do the same thing. Only instead of the yellowish light of fireflies in the night, a team at Syracuse University has figured out how to make green and orange and red light — all out of firefly juice.