Currents

A new study from Harvard finds that kids’ IQs are much lower in high-fluoride areas.

High-Pitched Sounds like a Torpedo to the BrainImagine that you’re at a heavy metal rock concert, except the band is playing in your living room and there’s no escape from the deafening noise. After all, it’s your home. Where are you going to go? Fortunately, it’s not often that rock bands take over our lives, […]

Wth a pledge to source a quarter of its electricity from renewable energy by 2015, Facebook shows it’s ready to get serious.

The Safe Chemicals Act makes it out of committee. Will it go any farther?

Logging the world’s organisms, one user-submitted photo at a time. Noah stands for “networked organisms and habitats,” and the goal of the Project Noah app is to log all of the world’s organisms, one user at a time. Either from your phone or the web, you can submit photos of species, try to identify them […]

lollapalooza2011.com Most Music Festivals Feature Green Vendors and Recycling Competitions–but What About Fan Transportation? All three of the summer’s biggest festival draws—Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and Coachella—have some variation on the theme “Green Street.” Most sell food from local and/or organic providers. All have some sort of competition involving recycling. And all festivals are concerned about their […]

Fewer than one in five Americans between the ages of 32 and 52 say they are concerned or alarmed about climate change.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommends that California’s San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant keep its reactors closed.

A new Humane Society video about exotic birds features Rio’s Jesse Eisenberg. Jesse Eisenberg, Oscar-nominated for his role as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, has teamed up with the Humane Society in order to protect exotic bird species. Eisenberg played the voice of the bird Blu in the animated film Rio, which dealt with […]

How Cities Hold the Key to a Sustainable FutureEdward Glaeser is an economist with a true love for urban living and a deep concern for the environment. His new book, Triumph of the City (Penguin Press), is stuffed with anecdotes, examples, unexpected outcomes and elegant solutions to conundrums of city living in locations ranging from […]