Environment
Why I Won't Be Turning Off Any Lights for Earth Hour
Earth Hour is founded on a metaphor—turning off the lights—that does the climate movement more harm than good.
Environment
Real Heat Maps: Watch As the World Burns
NASA maps show global temperature anomalies by decade, leaving no doubt whatsoever about our planet's warming trend.
Environment
What If Solar Were Subsidized Like Oil?
Finally, a useful graphic about fossil fuel versus solar subsidies. From our friends at One Block Off the Grid.
Environment
Nine Out of Ten Climate Denying Scientists Have Ties to Exxon Mobil Money
A new website boasts "900+ peer-reviewed papers" that deny climate science. Problem is lots of those papers were paid for by Big Oil.
Environment
Chart: Why $4-Per-Gallon Gas Is Damn Cheap
Even at $4-per-gallon, American gasoline is damn cheap compared to most of the world. See how much drivers in other countries shell out per gallon.
Cities
Video: Driver Plows Through Critical Mass Bike Ride in Brazil [Updated]
Watch the video of a vehicular homicide attempt, get outraged, and then commit to doing something to make your streets safer.
Environment
It's Official: Oil Subsidies Don't Keep Gas Prices Down
Oil CEOs are in Washington, D.C. today, defending the $4 billion they get in government subsidies. Thing is, that cash doesn't make gas any cheaper.
Environment
"Drill, Baby, Drill" Fails: American Oil Production Spikes Under Obama, Prices Still Soar
Domestic oil production has risen to the highest level in nearly a decade under Obama. That hasn't stopped the GOP from blaming him for oil prices.
Environment
Why 16 Year-Old Alec Loorz Is Suing the Government
I am 16 years old. This morning I filed a lawsuit against the United States of America. Here's why.
News
See This Earthquake Ravaged Japanese Highway Rebuilt in Three Days
Check out these amazing photos of a totally devastated stretch of Japanese highway that was rebuilt in three short days.
Environment
Beck-Hannity-Limbaugh Global Warming Truth Index "Proves" Climate Change is a Hoax
According to the highly scientific "Beck-Hannity-Limbaugh Global Warming Truth Index," global warming is quite certainly a hoax.
Environment
Why I'll Be Riding 300 Miles to D.C. to Fight Climate Change
Our environment editor is off on a 5-day ride from NYC to DC for climate change awareness. Here's why he thinks activism still matters.
Environment
Nuclear Accidents and All, Coal Is By Far the Deadliest Energy Source
Take a clear, simple look at how coal, oil, and nuclear compare in terms of deaths per watts produced. Coal is deadliest, and it's not even close.
Environment
California Dims the Incandescent Bulb
Californians are kissing goodbye to the standard 100-watt incandescent light bulb, a tired technology that's barely improved since Edison's time.
Environment
Chart: Even More Proof We Can't Drill Our Way to Lower Gas Prices
This chart totally debunks the GOP's false claim that the President's policies have anything to do with gas prices.
Environment
Not So Kind: Weed Growers Suck Down 1 Percent of All U.S. Electricity
All those grow lights, it turns out, inhale enough juice to power 2 million American homes.
Environment
Should We Follow the Dutch and Give Land Back to the Flooding Mississippi River?
Rather than battle rivers with expensive dikes and levees and canals, the Dutch give them more room to flow freely. Maybe we could learn from them.
Environment
Faux-tosynthesis: The Artificial Leaf that Could Power Your Home
A "Holy Grail" of solar research has reportedly been achieved: MIT scientists have created a fake "leaf" that mimics photosynthesis.
