This amazing washing machine uses virtually no water
Feb 19, 2014, 4:24 pm By hrichmond
Xeros Nearly a quarter of the water your household uses goes into your washing machine, and the…Steyer may spend $100 million to push climate cause in midterms, but polluters will spend more
Feb 19, 2014, 4:06 pm By benadler
Fortune Live Media / ReutersA championship matchup: On the left, Tom Steyer. On the right, David…Obama to trucking industry: “No more rampant gas consumption for you!”
Feb 19, 2014, 3:09 pm By andrewseve
While members of Congress twiddle their thumbs and idly watch the Northeast and Midwest begin to…Lady Gaga will be making a water conservation PSA as penance for swimming pool video shoot
Feb 19, 2014, 3:01 pm By hrichmond
Lady Gaga chose California’s sprawling Hearst Castle as the setting for a “special creative…When Rush Holt retires, the House will lose a scientist and an environmental advocate
Feb 19, 2014, 2:36 pm By benadler
With the midterms coming and Republican control of the House of Representatives entrenched via…This guy wants to turn a piece of the old Bay Bridge into a house
Feb 19, 2014, 2:07 pm By slaskow
The old Bay Bridge, from San Francisco to Oakland, is being torn down, which raises a tricky…Elephants console friends by touching their junk
Feb 19, 2014, 1:11 pm By slaskow
Elephants, according to a new study, comfort each other when they’re sad. They make sympathetic…Watch 40 artists turn this empty building into an illegal graffiti paradise
Feb 19, 2014, 12:30 pm By slaskow
The street artist Hanksy knew you’d be into this project. The New York Times: After getting keys…Watch this octopus try to steal a photographer’s camera
Feb 19, 2014, 10:26 am By hrichmond
Animals are pissed about the paparazzi. First an eagle snatched a camera in rural Australia and…Soda soon could have a warning label like cigarettes do
Feb 19, 2014, 9:49 am By hrichmond
Soon, bottles of pop could come with a health warning akin to cigarettes, if California Sen. Bill…Faster, higher, stranger: 5 sports for a snow-free Winter Olympics
Feb 19, 2014, 7:06 am By ghanscom
I know we’re all bummed about losing the polar bears, and the increase in monstrous killer storms…Bunsen burner bummer: Lab rules favor industry over indie research
Feb 19, 2014, 5:29 am By nathanael47
Last week, when I wrote about the scientist Tyrone Hayes and the controversy over the herbicide…Tea industry claims it will undertake heroic efforts to become more sustainable
Feb 18, 2014, 8:18 pm By John Upton
Mr. T knows a thing or two about being a hero, and he pities the fool who slurps from the sweat of…U.S. tries to have it both ways with solar trade policy
Feb 18, 2014, 6:23 pm By John Upton
Remember how the U.S. trade representative announced last week that he would haul India before the…Survive one Chevron fracking explosion, get a pizza and pop FREE!
Feb 18, 2014, 6:18 pm By andrewseve
If a multibillion-dollar company started a frack pit fire in your backyard that burned…Here’s a new, cute way to eat animals without guilt or cruelty
Feb 18, 2014, 4:58 pm By hrichmond
Omurice is a rice-filled omelette topped with sauce, often ketchup. Sounds pretty simple until you…Cows make more milk when listening to R.E.M.
Feb 18, 2014, 4:28 pm By hrichmond
Stressed cows produce less milk. The solution? R.E.M.’s hit “Everybody Hurts,” at least…America could have been a nation of hippopotamus eaters
Feb 18, 2014, 2:13 pm By slaskow
The journalist Jon Mooallem has an exceptional talent for writing about strange animal stories, and…Russia could build a train that would connect New York to Paris
Feb 18, 2014, 1:30 pm By slaskow
Amazing Maps posted this, uh, amazing map of a cross-Bering rail connection: Proposed Russia to…Finnish reindeer now have glowing antlers to protect them from cars
Feb 18, 2014, 12:20 pm By slaskow
Like deer in the American Northeast, reindeer in Finland are prone to walking into the road and…
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