environment
Humans Remove 10 Million Pounds of Trash Other Humans Put In Ocean
Ken Layne · 05/15/13 12:24PMThe entire history of the environmental movement can be best explained as "some humans trying to fix or at least slow down what all the other humans are doing." A new report from the Ocean Conservancy says 560,000 people volunteered to pull garbage out of the seas last year, and they got a huge haul of toxic crap!
Manatees Are Dying Off, and Florida Is Determined to Speed it Up
Adam Weinstein · 05/03/13 10:30AMBitcoin "Mining" Somehow Found a Way to Be Environmentally Destructive
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 04/14/13 04:10PMTom Scocca · 03/29/13 08:51AM
'Common Sense' Supermarket Chain Sells Pre-Peeled Bananas Wrapped in Plastic
Neetzan Zimmerman · 09/24/12 02:30PMDid Cocktail Snobs Help Destroy an Antarctic Glacier?
Ryan Tate · 02/02/12 04:43PMSo Long, You Filthy Canadian Tar Pipeline
Jim Newell · 01/18/12 01:34PMCongressional Republicans forced the Obama administration to expedite its decision on constructing the Keystone XL pipeline late last year, and today they're getting their answer: No Keystone XL pipeline. Our president has abandoned the oppressed Canadian tar sands, who only ever wanted a one-way ticket to Texas and the chance for a freer, more refined life.
Climategate Hacker Strikes Again
John Cook · 11/23/11 03:16PMObama Delays Decision on Filthy Tar Sands Pipeline
Jim Newell · 11/10/11 05:17PMUpside Down Rhino Was the Last of Its Kind
Seth Abramovitch · 11/10/11 01:42AMThe Sad, Beautiful, Surreal Sight of an Endangered Rhino Being Airlifted to Safety
Seth Abramovitch · 11/08/11 04:22AMIt's a bleak landscape for the mighty black rhinoceros. The WWF announced this week that 353 of the endangered mammals, whose horn is incorrectly thought to have cancer-curing powers, have been poached this year alone, already exceeding the number poached in 2010. Current estimates put the total population of the species at 4,240.
New Zealand's Penguins in Dire Need of Fabulous Knits
Seth Abramovitch · 10/19/11 11:03PMThe Taurunga oil spill off the coast of New Zealand unleashed 2,500 barrels of heavy fuel into a fragile ecosystem, coating thousands of local seabirds in oil. This puts many of them — particularly the mind-meltingly adorable Little Blue Penguin — at serious risk of freezing and/or being poisoned to death. We know, we know. After today's news from Ohio, there's only so much animal suffering you can take. But you can actually help, particularly if you know how to knit.
The Poop-Powered Toilet Bike of Japan
Maureen O'Connor · 10/06/11 04:05PMFlorida College Students Fight for Ban on Leaf Blowers
Matt Cherette · 10/04/11 03:51AMGlobal Warming Could Make the World's Animals Smaller
Lauri Apple · 09/28/11 06:57AMDo you sometimes wish you could shrink your pet crocodile just a little, to make it less frightening and threatening to your family's safety? Sadly, you'll have to make do with your oversized pet for now, but the Americans of the future (if there is a future, ha!) might enjoy smaller crocodiles and other cold-blooded pets thanks to global warming (which isn't actually real).
Obama Takes Green Initiative, Snatches Inhalers Out of Asthmatics' Hands
Seth Abramovitch · 09/22/11 11:27PMThe Obama administration may have kneed environmentalists in the nuts with its decision to delay a policy rehaul on air quality standards until 2013. But that doesn't mean that measures aren't being taken to protect what's left of the atmosphere. That's right, folks: The U.S. government is rolling up its sleeves and taking on the real enemy. No, not oil and coal processing plants, but rather the children who had the bad luck to grow up living near them, and face of lifetime of wheezing for doing so. Target: asthma inhalers!
Texas Hotter Than a Ferret in Gaddafi's Taint
Seth Abramovitch · 09/09/11 03:26AMGoogle Continuously Uses 260 Million Watts of Electricity
Seth Abramovitch · 09/08/11 10:24PMScientist 'Gobsmacked' At Disappearance of Major Greenland Glacier
Seth Abramovitch · 09/08/11 01:12AMThe great Texas Governor Rick Perry has smartly aligned himself with Galileo Galilei, that Renaissance maverick who famously took on the scourge known as "the scientific community." And we could surely use Galileo's science-debunking savvy now more than ever, huh, Rick? What with Dr. Alun Hubbard — who purports to be a "leading glaciologist" (whatever THAT is) — claiming that Greenland's Petermann Glacier has all but melted away faster than anyone could ever have predicted.