Aw, come on, this is funny. Think Progress - Global warming deniers forced to cancel meeting due to Tropical Storm Fay. This week, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) planned to have town hall meetings in Ft. Myers and West Palm Beach,...
Bush is such a dick. President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter' - Telegraph The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye...
Well, this isn't very good. Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North...
Or, the lack of sharks at Clipperton Island. YouTube - Conrad Limbaugh and the Sharks of Clipperton Island...
This is terrible. I love teff. I wonder what it'll mean for getting it here in North America. Israel's Ethiopians Forced to Give Up Traditional Bread Tens of thousands of the expatriates are being forced to abandon their traditional diets...
The Justin O. Schmidt Pain Index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different kinds of stings. Like the Scoville scale, which measures the heat index of chili peppers, the Schmidt Pain Index increases as the pain...
Very cool "live" map of the Earth, showing births, deaths, and CO2 emissions per country, based on statistical information. BreathingEarth...
Huh oh! BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice According to another scientist on the expedition, Dr Luke Copland of the University of Ottawa, the new cracks fit into a pattern of change in the Arctic....
Yes, it's a great headline, but not what you might think. Actually SFW. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Great tits cope well with warming Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to,...
I've often thought about the kind of crap that's on my keyboard. But what can I, as just one person, do about this horrible problem? BBC NEWS | UK | Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet' Consumer group Which? said tests...
The only bad part about this is you can't buy it in Canada. It fits 20 cases of beer, dammit! ZENN Motor Company...
Here's a pretty awesome electric motorcycle that uses advanced gyros for steering and speed control. I think I want one. mental_floss Blog - The Uno...
Yikes! Literally. It won't be long before they start experimenting with atomic-powered supermen. China down to 12 days of coal stocks - earth - 23 April 2008 - New Scientist Environment At the end of a cold and stormy winter,...
Yes, but what does it say about eating at your local Denny's? "Eating Local" Has Little Effect on Warming, Study Says On average, food racks up about 1,000 food miles (or 1,650 "food kilometers") traveling from farms to processing or...
Well, this did what it was expected to, I guess, though I don't think we actually saved a lot of resources in the long run. For that, every day should have an Earth Hour. If the effect was to increase...
Ruh-roh! I joke about there being 6-10 feet of snow still on the ground up here, but this is real. Photo Slideshow | Reuters.com Satellite images show that a large hunk of Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf has started to collapse...
You guys like swarms of things, right? Truck crash unleashes millions of bees | Metro.co.uk Millions of swarming honey bees are on the loose after a truck carrying crates of the insects flipped over on a California highway. The California...
This doesn't bode well for us. Maya May Have Caused Civilization-Ending Climate Change Self-induced drought and climate change may have caused the destruction of the Maya civilization, say scientists working with new satellite technology that monitors Central America's environment. One...
Hubba hubba, just in time for Valentine's Day. National Geographic News Photo Gallery: Gorillas Mate Face-to-Face in First Photos As the female's daughter looks on, two western lowland gorillas in Congo's Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park embrace before mating face-to-face, as seen...
I loved this ad. It made me feel like a chump when I threw bags of garbage out of my car window. Check out the straight dope on him here. YouTube - RETRO Anti-Pollution Ad with Native American - 1970s...
Interestingly, the platypus is also concrete proof against Intelligent Design. Platypus Much Older Than Thought, Lived with Dinos Australia's duck-billed platypus has been around much longer than previously thought, according to a new fossil study that found the egg-laying mammal's...
Hey, does anyone else have a bad feeling about this? Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica The new findings come as the Arctic is losing ice at a dramatic rate and glaciers are in retreat across the planet. At a...
