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West Coast drivers accelerate Leaf EV adoption
Those shrinking sticker prices on the Nissan Leaf appear to be having the intended effect – on the West Coast, especially. read more
Watching a tornado victim find her lost dog will make you feel at least a little better for at least a minute
Thank goodness for one little bitty bit of good news.
Prelude to Disaster: Inside the Oklahoma Weather Center
The National Weather Service forecast center in Norman, Oklahoma, is located in a five-story building on the south campus of the University of Oklahoma. It is technically on the second floor, but an auditorium located below it dips partly underground, so the experience is more like being on the first floor. Show More Summary
Fourth-grade filmmaker sneaks a camera into the cafeteria to document his gross school lunch
From that footage was born his aptly titled documentary, “Yuck!”
Bill aims to tackle climate-caused health problems
Legislation in Congress tries to get the U.S. ready for an onslaught of climate-related maladies. It won't pass, but it's a nice effort.
This egg needs to be guarded 24 hours a day, because British egg collectors are CRAZY
Conservationists have been trying to bring common cranes back to Britain, and now one pair has laid an egg.
Manhattan to see more killer heat waves
Climate change is expected to boost the number of deaths in New York City's most densely populated borough, a new study finds.
Prague’s ‘love subway’ will let single people find romance while they commute
It'll basically be like Amtrak's quiet car, except instead of sitting in silence, everyone will be scanning the car like they would a bar on a Saturday night.
Reuse, the Movie: How Ordinary Americans are Putting Trash to Work
Alex Eaves is making a career out of the concept of reuse. Next project: a documentary of his tour this Summer promoting the concept, and finding out what others do to repurpose and upcycle.
More than 100,000 electric vehicles now on the roads in U.S.
Sales of the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S helped reach this milestone. Meanwhile, Tesla is about to repay a government loan nine years early.
Staggering time-lapse footage of the Oklahoma tornado
Watch yesterday's deadly tornado go from a neat, eerie-looking funnel to a giant mess of wind and destruction.
Utilities for dummies: How they work and why that needs to change
Utilities are boring and opaque, but central to any clean-energy future. So it's time to demystify them. Here's a plainspoken intro to how they work, and why.
“Miracle garden” brings life, and food, to the urban wasteland
For 25 years, a devoted group of residents has tended a garden in a former dumping ground in East Baltimore. Its chief caretaker calls it "God's little acre."
Top Five Small Wind Turbines (In Sales)
Small wind turbines are a perennial point of contention. According to wind energy expert Paul Gipe, they often don’t live up to their hype. However, in very high-wind and off-grid situations, they may sometimes be useful. You really just have to do the best you can to evaluate your unique situation. Show More Summary
Tesla Motors Set To Repay Its Government Debt
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has said that it would repay the debt induced by the loan they received from the US government to develop electric vehicles early, and it appears this will be possible, with a bit of personal help from Elon. Show More Summary
5 Green Myths Debunked
Going green is a much talked about topic. All kinds of rumors and false ideas are circulating about the environment and the actions we can take to help it. Here are 5 green myths debunked. 1. Going Green is More Expensive Many are under the impression that everything green is expensive. Show More Summary
Could the Monsanto Protection Act get repealed?
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is trying to roll back a provision that allows GMO crops to be planted even before they've been OK'd by the USDA.
How Hitler's U-Boats Are Still Attacking Us
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has some fresh news from World War II: Thirteen Merchant Marine ships sunk by the German navy in the Battle of the Atlantic threaten to release oil from their watery graves. The finding...Show More Summary
Who's Your Daddy?
First Jackie learned her brother Alex (their names have been changed) was her uncle. Then things got a little weird.
The Oklahoma Mega-Twister Is More Weather Than Climate Change
When do you hope a drought will last as long as possible? When it’s a tornado drought—and a historic tornado drought is exactly what the U.S. experienced between May 2012 and April 2013. During that 12-month period the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimated that just 197 tornadoes hit the U.S. Show More Summary
- Environmental Protection Agency
- President Obama
- Secretary of State
- Atmospheric Administration NOAA
- Gulf of Mexico
- Point Reyes National Seashore
- Endangered Species Act
- Bureau of Land Management
- Hurricane Sandy
- Keystone Pipeline
- Supreme Court
- John Kerry
- Detroit Auto Show
- Tesla Model S
- Climate
- Zoological Society of London
- The West Coast
- Greenhouse Gas
- Clean Air Act
- El Niño
