The U.S. a 'New Middle East'?; Bees Are Big Business
The New York Times on the U.S.'s energy boom and the fate of nuclear energy, The Guardian on bees, AccuWeather on icebergs, and the Associated Press on seals
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The New York Times on the U.S.'s energy boom and the fate of nuclear energy, The Guardian on bees, AccuWeather on icebergs, and the Associated Press on seals
The Pentagon plans to roll out a new slate of clean- and renewable-energy initiatives on Wednesday as part of its long-term “Operational Energy Strategy” aimed at reducing the military’s dependence on fossil fuels while increasing its front-line fighting power.
Just because you may not always drink responsibly doesn't mean you need to drink environmentally-irresponsibly.
Discovered in Green: The warmest March ever, the deadly effects of these unusual temps, imported plants import unwanted pests and at least one species can adapt to the acidification of the oceans.
The New York Times on pollution in Mexico City, the Los Angeles Times on green big-rigs, Scientific American on renewable energy in Hawaii, Bloomberg Views on food safely, and Capital New York on bioluminescence
Discovered: What makes plants better at being thirsty, climate change hasn't had a horrible impact on streams, forest might save us from our climate change woes and snowy areas are in trouble.
In Beijing, where air pollution threatens to take years off your life, some people have no interest in riding a bike if they can possibly afford a car, which is a shame because rediscovering the tradition of cycling could help reduce the smog that chokes the city.
Thomas Friedman on the other Arab Spring, NPR on the warm winter, The Daily Climate on fires in the Amazon, Scientific American on a cleaner rickshaw, and Reuters on sick polar bears
Whether you realize it or not, your smartphone-toting, hybrid car-driving, neon light-gazing would be impossible without the cooperation from China, our fickle friends on the other side of the planet.
Meteorologists say that temperatures in the United States aren't just above normal — they're shattering all the records on the books.
Discovered: There's nasty stuff in our chicken that shouldn't be there, a more sustainable replacement for whale vomit, Florida's pythons are getting hungry and Earth doesn't want humans to get into its copper stash.
The Los Angeles Times on solar in the Southwest, The New Yorker on the ExxonMobile and the GOP, Good on plastic bags, National Geographic on global warming and Inuits, and BBC on endangered ducklings
With the threat to Alaska's marine life looming, United States Coast Guard brought an end to the eerie story of Japan's drifting ghost ship by unleashing cannon fire and sinking the vessel in what experts deemed the most environmentally-safe location on Thursday.
For a springtime art project, a pair of Google employees mapped the realtime wind patterns of the United States -- and in doing so, try to drive home the point it's about time the U.S. got serious about wind power.
Discovered: A GIF that proves the Antarctic Ice shelf's super fast disintegration, rising CO2 levels did cause global warming millions of years ago, a climate change fighting plant and China gets rain in all the wrong places.
Nicholas Kristof on arsenic in chicken, Slate on ecologically friendly farming in Cuba, Mother Jones on the low cost of stopping climate change, Good on not buying leather, and NPR on the end of the Ice Age.
By now, everyone knows how to "go green," but what if you want to take it the next level?
Discovered in Green: The world will get warmer by 2050, the Earth's coldest waters have been disappearing for decades, the ice sheet collapsed because of warm water, and the potential of algae biofuels.
The New York Times on combined heat and power, The Denver Post on a looming drought, The Associated Press on floating architecture, The Guardian on the complexities of carbon footprints, and Fast Company on saving ocean wildlife
Mitt Romney's become fond of criticizing the Chevy Volt, saying he doesn't want the government to tell automakers what kinds of cars to make, but it won't be the government that forces him into an electric vehicle; it'll be market forces from Asia.
Appropriately, Tom Foster's Inc. profile of the hippies who run Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap starts with the telltale tingle in the nether regions.
Discovered in green: Buying less stuff won't make everything all better, what Fukushima did to the ocean and its fish, fertilizers are doing nasty things to our air and sparrows have changed their tune for noisy cities.
If environmental stewardship turned into some sort of epic battle of the sexes, men would get clobbered.
ClimateWire on Chinese food woes in China, Le Monde on Shanghai's sinking, CNN on a green tsunami cleanup, Van Jones on eco-jobs, and Climate Central's flooding maps
Taking advantage of all the social transparency Facebook has created, one app puts all of our energy usage out there for our friends to see, hoping competition and peer pressure will encourage better habits.
The environmental degradation in North Korean has become so severe, North Korea invited a group of five Americans to Pyongyang last month to talk about restoration and food security.
A new class action lawsuit alleges that BP avoided hiring Asian-American fishermen to help with cleanup efforts in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, bringing fresh attention to the difficulties the Asian-American community faced in the aftermath of the disaster.
Discovered in green: The ocean is getting warmer, the coral reef might be okay, actually, probably not, and stop fishing so much.
Even as their numbers decline, the habit of tiny fish such as sardines to form into tightly packed "bait balls" keeps them super easy to catch, which puts them at risk of collapse and means active conservation such as catch limits is crucial for their survival.
Monday's best green reads: NPR on the Texas drought, Mother Jones on anti-coal activism, The New York Times on uranium-mine radiation, The Guardian on measuring global warming, and Good on an eco-friendly pantry.
Environmental issues have been framed mostly as economic issues during this election campaign: How can we bring down gas prices? Can we create jobs with a new oil pipeline? Does the Environmental Protection Agency cost jobs?
Discovered in green: This common pesticide is most definitely killing the bees, a greener way to make plastics, a new type of electricity powered alternative fuel and getting to space on a few drops of fuel.
General Motors has decided to demonstrate its newfound belief that climate change is a real thing by pulling its longstanding funding from the climate-change-skeptical Heartland Institute think tank
Discovered: Crazy weather has a lot to do with climate change, why we like sad movies, another invisibility cloak (sort of), what made humans start walking less like apes and more like humans and black holes are rude.
Sure $25 is a lot to shell out for a lightbulb, but former Gizmodo editor Brian Lam makes a compelling case for the Phillips 12.5 watt ambientLED at The Wirecutter.
Chilean technicians exploded the top off of Las Campanas Peak in the Atacama Desert to begin the construction of a telescope ten times as powerful as the Hubble on Friday morning.
Despite cries about high gas prices, the fight over Keystone, and attacks on the administration's energy policies, The New York Times says the United States is actually much closer to energy independence than it has been in decades.
Discovered: Venice is sinking, record low TB cases, more evidence that breast cancer screenings work, and very speedy planets.
President Obama spoke in the oil town of Cushing, Oklahoma today, and has announced that his administration will expedite the permit for the southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline.
As much as we're enjoying these halcyon early spring days of bare legs and light breezes, perfect al fresco weather, and walking jacketless through the park, we are also worried.
CNN reports that President Obama plans to "expedite the permit" for the Keystone XL pipeline's southern portion, which looks like a public play to appear responsive to higher gas prices even as it comes just a few months after Obama blocked the natural gas pipeline's original permit.
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