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It’s Penguin Awareness Day! Please be aware of these penguins
So apparently today is Penguin Awareness Day? I’d be inclined to think that any species that’s been the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary AND an Oscar-winning animated feature film wouldn’t […]
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A Farmville-style game that helps save wetlands
This student-created Farmville-type game benefits real wetlands conservation groups.
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Critical List: Vermont can’t shutter nuke plant; microbes turn seaweed into biofuel
The EPA will test water in Dimock, PA, and is delivering drinking water to four homes there. Silly Vermont. You wanted to shut down a nuclear plant? Only the federal […]
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WWDSS? What would Dr. Seuss say about climate change?
Channeling the good doctor, one writer imagines what he might write about global warming, were he still with us. A little fun with the apocalypse, anyone?
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Climate vigilantes: How to get real facts into media coverage of climate
Climate change is a perfect example of an issue on which reporters should be "truth vigilantes," challenging the faulty "facts" spread by climate skeptics.
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Critical List: Military could produce 7 GW of solar; British survey hedgehogs
Solar projects at desert military bases could produce 7,000 megawatts of solar energy — a huge amount. EVs have more than enough range to make 95 percent of the trips […]
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Chatting with the climate scientist Newt dissed
Katherine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist and evangelical Christian, wrote a chapter on climate change for Newt Gingrich's upcoming book, only to find out he scrapped it. Hear her thoughts on talking to conservatives about global warming, and why the threat of hate mail makes it hard for climate scientists to speak out.
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The hagfish defeats its predators with slime
This video from National Geographic will make any self-respecting maritime predator think twice before attacking a hagfish, an eel-like creature that secretes slime from its pores. Also, fair warning, you […]
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Orangutans will eat adorable lorises if they have to
If orangutans can't get fruit, they will EAT SLOW LORISES.
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‘Beyonce fly’ has a solid gold butt
Say its name, say its name: This horsefly has been dubbed "Scaptia beyonceae" because of its golden rear end.
