It came out in April that the Koch brothers, those devious, climate-denying bros who made their billions on oil and gas, were considering buying  the L.A. Times , Chicago Tribune , and the other six regional newspapers owned by the... 

From bee-killing companies pretending to love bees to researchers frantically trying to create a disease-resistant superbee , it’s been kind of a rough week for bees, who have already been having a rough couple of years due to dying... 

Let Ideas Compete Lafayette, Colo. The latest effort by a group of Coloradans to protect their community from frackers goes further than the bans and moratoriums recently put in place by Boulder, Fort Collins, and Longmont . Residents... 

Revkin and Roberts, last seen together in 2011. Andrew Revkin has been on the front lines of environmental journalism for decades. He picked up the climate story before many of us had heard of it. He’s best known for his Dot... 

Feeling anxious today? Take a trip with us under the sea, and watch divers follow a whalesong to a mysterious and awe-inspiring close-up brush with a humpback whale. The whalesong alone was worth the price of admission, writes one... 

Greg Thompson / USFWS Damaged homes along New Jersey shore after Hurricane Sandy. Rising seas and increasingly severe weather are expected to increase the areas of the United States at risk of floods by up to 45 percent by 2100, according... 

Phillip Stewart Smoke from the Black Forest Fire. Hellish wildfires are ravaging parts of Colorado. Thousands of people have been evacuated and at least 360 homes have been destroyed by the Black Forest Fire, currently burning northeast... 

Who says solar and wind can’t provide enough energy for a modern lifestyle? This giant, terrifying robot with a geodesic dome shell and 12 crustaceanesque legs derives its power from a wind turbine and a roof-mounted solar panel.... 

It is, unfortunately, society’s nature to discard the unwanted or forgotten. This tendency is on display across the globe, from slums of mega-cities to undernourished children in rural villages to the ugly endangered creatures... 

Everything is in near constant movement even if it cannot be seen by the naked eye. Just the right movement can cause things like chemical reactions to happen. Catalysts can stop working when atoms on the surface start moving. At the... 

Panama’s researchers have played a key role in creating a rapidly growing salmon that may soon become the world’s first commercially sold genetically modified (GM) animal. The US’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA)... 

Scientists have long known that ocean acidification is leading to a decline in Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) in the U.S.’s Pacific Northwest region, but a new study in the American Geophysical Union shows exactly how the... 

On average, it costs $2.51 more to fill a conventional car with a gallon of gas than to charge an electric car to go the same distance, according to the Department of Energy’s new eGallon tool. It may be an even bigger difference... 

Giken Seisakusho Bikes are great and all, but as more people start cycling instead of driving, it doesn’t necessarily make sense to create new slabs of empty asphalt on which to park bikes. A better solution is Japan’s... 

It might be rainy. It might be muddy. You might speed through a disgusting puddle on your bike. But if you took a few seconds to slap on a Musguard fender, you and your clothes will be protected from the tell-tale tracks of biking... 

NASA COSMIC satellites. Sequester cuts could see the planned second generation of this weather-monitoring array axed. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is trying to figure out how to meet sequester cuts demanded... 

Shutterstock “Trust us, we’re Monsanto.” That’s pretty much all the untrustworthy company had to say to win yet another round in a drawn-out court battle with organic farmers and seed producers. The U.S. court... 

I’ve now written, oh, it seems like a kabillion posts on what’s wrong with electric utilities and how they might be adapted for the 21st century. All of my thinking on this subject has been informed by smart work from... 

The director of the Big Sur Spirit Garden, Jayson Fann likes to make people feel at home. He’s a nester. Literally — he makes giant, human-sized nests  for people to hang out and sleep in and eat in and LIVE IN FOREVER... 

Heather Buckley On Sunday, the World Naked Bike Ride sent nude cyclists tearing through the streets of cities worldwide. They were bike-loving, pants-free, and united in their support of … a cause of some sort. Rather understandably...