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July has seen record-high temperatures and a spate of high school athlete deaths.

July has seen record-high temperatures and a spate of high school athlete deaths.

Shark Week Reminds Us of the Perilous State of the World’s Favorite Predators This week is Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” and millions of Americans will tune into the annual broadcast, which features shows like “How Sharks Hunt” and “Great White Invasion.” This year, Shark Week is advertised to be more “action-packed” than ever, and the […]

Save paper–and your sanity–with the organizational power of Wunderlist. Life is too busy to worry about remembering to bring your hastily scribbled notes and lists with you everywhere you go or having to scramble around your office in an attempt to find out what happened to that important Post- it note you swear you stuck […]

Courtesy of NASA. What the Antarctic Ice Sheet Can Tell Us About Sea Rise to ComeDuring the last warm period on Earth, the world’s oceans were almost 20 feet higher than what they are today thanks to the melting ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. Most of the scientific community assumed that the Greenland Ice […]

New fuel economy standards of 54.5 mpg by 2025 promise to cut oil consumption from vehicles by 40%.

Could Europe achieve emissions reductions of 30% of 1990 levels by 2020? Early data suggests ‘yes.’ Leaders of the European Union (EU) agreed in 2007 to commit their countries to a carbon emissions plan that would reduce emissions to 20% of 1990 levels by the year 2020. It was a bold move, and one that […]

Green Hip Hop Promises to Give the Environmental Movement Its “Heart and Soul”Around 2008, a small group of artists left behind the familiar themes that have dominated hip-hop for decades. Instead of rapping about the usual: drug culture, the nature of fame, relationships, or loyalty versus betrayal, these artists wanted to talk about the environment. […]

A new initiative would open U.S. federal waters to fish farming for the first time.