New York, California move to ban beauty products containing microbeads
Feb 14, 2014, 4:52 pm By John Upton
Scrubbing dead skin cells off your face and tartar off your teeth trashes the environment if it’s…Scientists can now spy on whales from space
Feb 14, 2014, 3:43 pm By slaskow
There are two ways of looking at this story. One is as a triumph of new technology: Using…Oil spills break fishes’ hearts
Feb 14, 2014, 3:39 pm By John Upton
This Valentine’s Day, BP should dedicate some hearts to fish that were exposed to its Deepwater…Just a natural gas well exploding into flames — nothing to see here!
Feb 14, 2014, 3:15 pm By andrewseve
Greg Jordan Early on Tuesday morning, a Chevron-owned natural gas fracking well in Greene County,…These endangered animals want to help you set the mood with their sexy mating calls
Feb 14, 2014, 12:54 pm By slaskow
Hopefully by now you have used these flirting tips to attract yourself a potential mate. Now, you…The week in GIFs: creepy gross-out edition
Feb 14, 2014, 10:48 am By hrichmond
This week had a pretty high ick factor. (Last week: Carrie Brownstein.) Giant rats are one of the…Winter warriors: As Sochi heats up, will athletes turn to climate activism?
Feb 14, 2014, 9:45 am By ghanscom
As you watch the victorious athletes lean down to accept their medals in Sochi this week, consider…Mutated fish have adapted to freakish amounts of toxic waste
Feb 14, 2014, 9:40 am By hrichmond
The good news is that after four decades of factories dumping toxic waste into New Bedford Harbor,…The top 3 flaws with the State Dept.’s Keystone study
Feb 14, 2014, 2:41 am By benadler
When the State Department issued its environmental impact statement on the proposed Keystone XL…America’s natural gas system is super-leaky, and that’s bad news for the climate
Feb 14, 2014, 12:34 am By John Upton
Like a free-riding bus passenger whose expired ticket gets overlooked by the driver, the natural gas…Solar is keeping California’s lights on as hydro dries up
Feb 13, 2014, 8:16 pm By John Upton
We told you recently that wind turbines kept the heaters working in Texas during a cold snap that…Gallery exhibit lets you experience just how disgusting cities can smell
Feb 13, 2014, 4:28 pm By hrichmond
Did Dickensian London really smell like cold porridge and desperation? Was Paris in the 1700s all…Froggy went a courting: Rev. Billy’s climate protest heads to trial
Feb 13, 2014, 3:11 pm By Heather Smith
Last October, the Reverend Billy was arrested for preaching into a megaphone inside a branch of…Steal these flirting tips from animals
Feb 13, 2014, 2:54 pm By hrichmond
Animals and people are basically the same. We both fling our poop, pick bugs out of each other’s…How we can make our cities greener and more equal at the same time
Feb 13, 2014, 1:20 pm By benadler
Ever since the rise of Occupy Wall Street, the issue of inequality has been getting some long…Ask Umbra: What should I get my sweetie for Valentine’s Day?
Feb 13, 2014, 12:56 pm By ghanscom
Q. Valentine’s Day seems to have become a sustainability-conscious guy’s minefield. Flowers?…Your Tetley tea won’t taste so good after you read this
Feb 13, 2014, 12:39 pm By John Upton
Akarsh Simha India’s reputation for producing delicious teas stems mostly from vast plantations in…Another day, another big coal-industry spill ruins a river
Feb 13, 2014, 12:10 pm By John Upton
The coal power industry has dumped a lot of toxic crap into yet another river. This latest incident…This start-up wants to track the movement of all NYC’s pedestrians
Feb 13, 2014, 11:51 am By slaskow
Real-time pedestrian data, FastCoExist notes, is quite valuable to all sorts of people: “city…U.S. wants poor and rich countries alike to cut emissions under next climate treaty
Feb 13, 2014, 11:46 am By John Upton
If the U.S. gets its way, developing countries will need to roll up their sleeves and do more to…
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