John Lennon wrote that life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. Apparently, the same is true of energy efficiency. Energy savings happen when we’re busy doing other things – Internet-based things specifically. Read this article: Energy Efficiency Without Trying... 

John Lennon wrote that life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. Apparently, the same is true of energy efficiency. Energy savings happen when we’re busy doing other things – Internet-based things specifically. Read this article: Energy Efficiency Without Trying... 

A version of this article originally appeared on Climate Progress . Someday soon, robots could help us fight wildfires like the ones blazing in Colorado. (Photo by U.S. Air Force .) In the last few years, we’ve seen an increase in extreme weather events and environmental disasters — costing... 

A version of this article originally appeared on Climate Progress . Someday soon, robots could help us fight wildfires like the ones blazing in Colorado. (Photo by U.S. Air Force .) In the last few years, we’ve seen an increase in extreme weather events and environmental disasters — costing... 

Pancreatitis is the inflammation of the pancreas, the gland behind the stomach which releases digestive enzymes to break down food in the stomach. It also secretes pancreatic juice which aids in absorption of nutrients in the small intestine. It is an essential organ for digestion, and it also produces... 

Coffee is a brewed beverage with a bitter flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. It is an accepted wake up call for many and a beverage to relax over and talk. But is coffee good for you? There is intense debate about that matter. Now comes a new study to reveal coffee in moderation... 

What does the future entail when it comes to the environment and the energy crisis? Will we come up with a sustainable method of procuring energy that has no negative repercussions to the Earth or will we continue to use up our resources and be forced to rely on resources outside of our planet? In Glenn... 

A new study published today in Nature by authors from the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and the Goethe University Frankfurt suggests that large parts of Africa’s savannas may well be forests by 2100. The study suggests that fertilization by atmospheric carbon dioxide is forcing increases... 

The story of acid rain from the 1970s is preserved in newspaper headlines, textbooks, and, it turns out, the soils of the northeastern United States. Forty years after humans first began tackling the problem, the impact of acid rain still lingers in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, according... 

Farmer Dan Brown has been sued by the Maine Dept. of Agriculture for selling raw milk, despite the passage of a food sovereignty ordinance in his town. New England town meetings typically include dozens and dozens of proposals for citizens to vote up or down, on quickly forgotten matters like new stop... 

Photo by USAF. The wildfires raging through Colorado and the West are unbelievable. As of yesterday there were 242 fires burning, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Almost 350 homes have been destroyed in Colorado Springs, where 36,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. President... 

It’s that exciting time of the year again when the Senate and House Appropriations Committees gets together to hash out the annual agriculture budget. I know, right? Really fun stuff. This year, in addition to the usual underfunding of legislation that could make the food system more sustainable... 

Although the seashore is most commonly associated with the word beach, beaches are found by lakes and alongside large rivers, as well as by the sea or oceans. Beaches are a fine place to hang out to enjoy the surf and the sun. Unfortunately beaches may not be the cleanest places to be due to storm water... 

Anna Cummins and Marcus Eriksen The Pacific Ocean is a pretty darned big place. The hull of the 72’ former racing yacht, Sea Dragon, not so much, especially when crammed full of research equipment and 14 full-sized human-type people not necessarily accustomed to the rigors of the open ocean. But that’s... 

Although its external appearance is generally that of a long-nosed mouse, a shrew is not a rodent and is more closely related to moles. Shrews are distributed almost worldwide: of the major tropical and temperate land masses, only New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand do not have native shrews at all;... 

Mobile technology and smartphones have steadily increased the usage of video games and social media outlets in Sweden. According to the University of Gothenberg in Gothenberg, Sweden, over 60 percent of Swedish adolescents have a personal “smart” cellular telephone. The representative study of the... 

It is not surprising that chemicals may affect biological functions. In a new study, by Andrea Gore of the University of Texas on rats, has shown that PCB-induced brain changes delayed puberty in male offspring and disrupted reproductive cycles in the adult female offspring. Rats and humans are very... 

The Colorado River touches the lives of Americans coast to coast. The river begins in the Rocky Mountains and flows into Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. Along the way, it feeds over a dozen tributaries across the American Southwest. But the river is drying up. As it does, those who rely on it for farming,... 

The nation’s first limits on greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions survived a major legal challenge yesterday, as the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals upheld two Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) climate change regulations on the merits and dismissed challenges... 

This photo’s sepia-toned because coal plants are history. Get it? Har. Despite what the coal industry would have you believe, the days of affordable coal-fired power are over . That’s the conclusion of the Sierra Club’s recent ” Locked In ,” a report that analyzes the wide...