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On Titanic anniversary, James Cameron says climate change is our menacing iceberg
The starving millions will be the ones most affected by the next iceberg that we hit, which is going to be climate change, says Cameron, director of the movie Titanic.
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U.S. and Maldives endure the long, hot March of climate change
In an election season sure to be marked by more extreme weather, the Maldives' Mohamed Nasheed, an outspoken climate activist, fights to get back his presidency as Obama tries to hold onto his.
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The only good coal is coal left in the ground
Is it important for U.S activists to fight coal exports? Damn straight it is.
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Now you can smell like fake whale vomit
Finally, thanks to modern science, you no longer have to feed a whale a bathing suit full of rotten fish to get a supply of precious ambergris, the whale-vomit-derived material used in perfumes. Researchers have worked out a way to reliably synthesize ambergris from plants.
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GOP’s worst nightmare: Green Muslims
The Quran is full of “lessons about water conservation, avoiding the wasteful consumption of resources, proper land use, stewardship of trees, and compassion for animals and birds,” reports John Wihbey at the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media. This can mean only one thing: The entire environmental movement has aligned itself with our […]
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Shocker: Conservative governor believes there’s a problem with the climate
Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich called for action on climate change, saying he was “all for” developing clean energy. (Too bad he's still all for fossil fuels, too.)
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Get your subterranean doomsday condo — while supplies last!
Where will you go when The End comes? Well, if you’ve got enough cash, you can go live in an old missile silo and wait for the climate crisis to blow over. Then again, cave dwelling might not be all that it’s cracked up to be.
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80 percent of humans are delusionally optimistic, says science
Maybe the reason we can't do anything about the existential crisis of climate change -- or, indeed, any of the other existential crises we're facing at present -- is that 80 percent of humanity has what's known as an "optimism bias."
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Ohio fracking is latest target for anti-Keystone activists
The folks who brought you the blockbuster protests against the Keystone XL pipeline are planning the largest-ever demonstration against natural-gas fracking.
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Hope and climate change: Reasons to remain optimistic
Crawl out of that fetal position: Maybe we can still do something about climate change. Here are a few things to be hopeful about.
