Google recently announced it was going to be heavily investing in sustainable energies.  There main investments are in deep earth geothermal, high-altitude wind , and solar thermal (different from photovoltaic). Larry Page: "...all these startups...

"Low-oxygen areas that show scant signs of sea life have expanded. 'We seem to have crossed a tipping point,' a scientist says." "Video images scanned from the seafloor revealed a boneyard of crab skeletons, dead fish and other marine life smothered u...

"One out of every 6 people on earth do not have access to safe drinking water.  Lack of safe water and sanitation is the world's largest cause of illness." - UNICEF Can one person really make a difference?  When Ryan Hreljac was a 6 year o...

For five years there has been an ongoing battle over the expansion and allowance of snowmaking at the Northern Arizona Snowbowl ski resort. But in a recent 9th Circuit Court decision, the 21 Native American tribes and environmental groups such as the Sie...

While I don't agree with every position President Clinton takes, he does have one of the most balanced & complete understandings of the challenges humanity is currently facing.  He is one of the only politicans out there that doesn't just spit out t...

At least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade.

I just went back to New Zealand (where I was born) for the first time in 10 years. Some of my best memories from down there as a kid were spending time fishing, either with my granddad or just surfcasting, so needless to say that was a big priority on th...

Here's a brief rundown of some of what we know about global warming and the greenhouse effect. The Greenhouse Effect is Real: The Greenhouse effect (where gases in earth's atmosphere insulate the planet's temperature) is a very real phenomenon. With...

"More than a decade ago, many scientists claimed that humans were demonstrating a capacity to force a major global catastrophe that would lead to a traumatic shift in climate, an intolerable level of destruction of natural habitats, and an extinction eve...

According to Auto Bild, the hybrid Golf will get 69.9 mpg and emit 90 g/km of carbon dioxide. An earlier report by Britain's Auto Express...Frobot ...