Even “green” K-cups kinda suck for the environment
Apr 9, 2014, 3:24 pm By Jess Zimmerman
We recently found out that K-cups, those single-serve thingers you use in your office’s Keurig…Oil companies would rather let trains explode than cooperate with feds
Apr 9, 2014, 1:03 pm By John Upton
As federal officials work frantically to reverse an uptick in explosions and oil spills…Can celebrities and prime-time TV make Americans care about climate change?
Apr 9, 2014, 12:45 pm By Kate Sheppard
Years of Living DangerouslyCheadle, Hayhoe, and Andrew Farley. April 13 is the television premiere…These gorgeous sustainable travel mugs won’t leach harmful chemicals
Apr 9, 2014, 12:22 pm By Holly Richmond
Given the recent ruckus about BPA-free plastic being not that safe after all, we get it if you’re…Forget cows — people are now going Smart car tipping
Apr 9, 2014, 9:40 am By Holly Richmond
Fred Scharmen Youthful San Francisco hooligans don’t exactly have access to a field of snoozing…10 places to visit before they’re gone: a bucket list for a warming world
Apr 9, 2014, 7:56 am By Jim Meyer
Summer is just around the corner and, after a winter like this one, it’s high time to start making…The journal that gave in to climate deniers
Apr 9, 2014, 7:07 am By Elaine McKewon
In February 2013, the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a peer-reviewed paper which found…Watch commuters live your public transit nightmare as they avoid a rat in a subway car
Apr 8, 2014, 4:55 pm By jesszimmerman
Everyone in New York has made peace with the idea that there are rats in the subway. But usually…As if the ozone hole weren’t enough, now there’s a hole in the troposphere
Apr 8, 2014, 4:04 pm By hrichmond
Markus Rex, Alfred-Wegener-InstituteClick to embiggen. Everyone knows men shouldn’t wear white…EVs are getting fake engine sounds, because they’re so quiet it’s dangerous
Apr 8, 2014, 1:03 pm By hrichmond
Hybrids can be so quiet you can’t tell if they’re on. Which is bad news for cyclists and…Eating road kill: Yuck or yum?
Apr 8, 2014, 12:26 pm By Samantha Larson
Ian Cummings was cycling just outside Cambridge, England, when he noticed the freshly hit rabbit on…Brits may ban new onshore wind power
Apr 8, 2014, 12:20 pm By John Upton
Britain’s conservative government is preparing to make an unusual pledge — a crackdown on…Fancy new sustainable cement is made of old busted toilets
Apr 8, 2014, 11:36 am By hrichmond
What happens when your crapper becomes a piece of crap? If you’re lucky, it gets turned into…This beautiful tiny house looks like an orange and was built for less than $9,000
Apr 8, 2014, 9:35 am By hrichmond
To be affordable, tiny houses are often all angles, with sharp, modern design. For those of us tired…Blades of gory: Teaching kids to slice and dice
Apr 8, 2014, 8:05 am By Nathanael Johnson
Play out this scenario in your head: A writer publishes a cookbook for children, and as part of the…Climate change: The hottest thing in science fiction
Apr 8, 2014, 6:49 am By Darby Smith
The world as we knew it is gone. Even if nobody is talking explicitly about it, it’s clear that…Bird body count still rising following Galveston Bay oil spill
Apr 7, 2014, 5:09 pm By John Upton
There have been so many oil spills lately — from trains, from pipelines, from barges, from a…We might get a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth
Apr 7, 2014, 4:51 pm By hrichmond
Considering Fast and the Furious 18 is now in theaters, it’s almost weird there hasn’t been a…Only 28 percent of Fox News climate segments are accurate
Apr 7, 2014, 3:24 pm By Darby Smith
According to a Pew study released last year, 38 percent of U.S. adults watch cable news. So if you…Director Werner Herzog hates chickens but loves KFC
Apr 7, 2014, 3:05 pm By hrichmond
Do chickens scare you? Does staring into their beady eyes smack of your own mortality? If so,…
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