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How one group is convincing U.S. colleges to invest responsibly

It doesn’t take long to gauge the depths of Morgan Simon’s passion: you can hear it in her voice. Or what’s left of her voice, anyway. The first time I […]

Umbra on green hotels

Dear Umbra, My husband and I are Americans who own a small budget hotel in Rome, Italy. We try to be as eco-friendly as possible: our cafe is local, organic, […]

Cyclone Sidr

There’s a category 4 storm headed toward a low-lying area Bangladesh. It’s still gaining strength, and could hit land within 24 hours. People in the know say this very well […]

Navy must adopt safeguards for whales in 2008, says court

Update on the seemingly endless saga of whether the U.S. Navy should restrict underwater sonar use in the interest of whale health: A federal appeals court has ruled that while […]

Record amount of sewage dumped into China’s Yangtze River

Last year, China’s state media deemed the Yangtze River “cancerous” with pollution; to stick with the analogy, it appears the cancer has spread, as a record amount of sewage was […]

Britain quickly running out of landfill space, says study

The British, who apparently have a penchant for tossing rubbish willy-nilly, may run out of landfill space in a mere nine years, says a new report. Says Paul Bettison of […]

Thousands of gallons of oil spill in San Francisco Bay and Black Sea, and more

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Gnarly Sheen It Takes a Spillage to Raze the Wild The Suit of Damocles The Yay of the Land Barreling […]

Six of world’s eight bear species under threat of extinction

Pop quiz: Can you name the world’s eight bear species? (Answer: American black, Asiatic black, brown, polar, panda, sun, sloth, and Andean. Gummy and Care are not acceptable answers.) Six […]

Tanker spills over 500,000 gallons of fuel oil in Black Sea

On Sunday, a storm in the Black Sea sank five ships and ran others aground, including an oil tanker that split in half, spilling about 550,000 gallons of fuel oil […]

Electric motorcycle delivers man to side of van

"I'm the owner, not the driver, so this is going to be interesting to say the least."

Indeed: