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Here's what you can do, right now, to help with disaster response and relief efforts in Japan.
The brutal Japanese shark fin trade is exposed in this new video—and a San Francisco-based reporter taste tests the resulting soup.
We know you don't need any material goods as incentive to give, but here are some good people offering proceeds from sales to relief efforts in Japan.
A 24-year-old English teacher is the first known American casualty of the tsunami.
Mitsubishi's electric car, the i-MiEV, went on sale today in Japan. With the help of government incentives it's a pretty affordable 2.8...
Watch this stunning sequence of the hundreds of aftershocks to the massive 9.0 earthquake that has sent Japan reeling.
Japan's engineers deserve a big pat on the back.
A moving tribute to coal miners who have died on the job, brought to you by the industry that killed them.
In his latest stop-motion street art video, a take on the evolution of life, Blu plays with the environment much more than in previous works....
The average American watched nearly 40 hours of television a week in 2010. And he watched a lot of Fox News and Univision.
The U.S. obesity rate has skyrocketed in the last decade and companies see an opportunity in marketing to obese people. But they shouldn't take it.
A new report by Greenpeace delivers some not-great news about several giant companies' environmental performance in China. At issue are Chinese...
The supercheap Tata Nano car, which we've written about quite a bit in this blog, has a problem: spontaneous combustion. Over the last year, a...
The adult illiteracy rate in New Orleans is nearly twice the national average. A student-driven program called Big Class is changing that.
From deaths to uprisings to natural disasters, 2011 seemed like a year with almost too much news. Here's a 60-second roundup.
Since President Obama introduced his Race to the Top education initiative, states have been scrambling to rewrite their laws to qualify for a...
We stopped by the world's largest dreamcatcher near Meteor City, Arizona. Not pictured: the world's largest dream.
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood makes the case for building big and bothering Congress.
Part four in Walking in L.A., a GOOD miniseries by Ryan Bradley on transportation in Los Angeles and what it's like to get across the entire...
By now, the Gulf oil spill is without a doubt the most monumental environmental disaster of the past year, if not the past decade. But while we...
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