Elon Musk’s Unbelievably Simple 12-minute Killer Break Down on Climate Change
Elon Musk breaks down climate change for students at The Sorbonne in Paris right before the historic COP21 Climate Change Conference in which 170+ nations si…
British Muslims send message to ISIS and the world—and it’s spot on
Often scorned and associated with terrorists, innocent Muslims around the world have suffered ridicule, discrimination, abuse, torture, and murder.
New York to Make Good on the Promise of Offshore Wind
The state hopes a new project will finally begin to tap an enormous source of renewable energy.
Women Warriors Among Northern Plains Indians
The popular media and sometimes history book view of the Northern Plains Indians of the nineteenth century envisions a male warrior, mounted on a horse, wearing a long war bonnet. There are many things wrong with this stereotype, but what is usually missing from the non-Indian descriptions of Northern Plains Indian warfare is the fact…
First-Ever GMO Labeling Law in U.S. Is Finally Here
Vermont requires GMOs to be labeled, but the future of regulations for genetically engineered ingredients and labels is anything but clear.
Thirteen Facts About America Conservatives Would Like You to Forget
Conservatives opposed the Founding Fathers, the American Revolution and a lot of other righteous stuff as well.
ISIS Is a Symptom, Not the Cause, of the Middle East’s Disintegration
We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast swath of territory between Pakistan and Nigeria, there are at least seven ongoing wars—in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and South Sudan.
A haunting silence is spreading over the natural world.
The first mammal has gone extinct from climate change. The Australian Bramble Cay melomys have vanished from its 350m-long cay home in the Torres Strait due to sea-level rise and weather events.
Rare footage of Bryde’s whales feeding
Captured via drone off the coast of Auckland. There are thought to be fewer than 200 of these creatures left in New Zealand waters
Harrowing video shows black man shot by Baton Rouge police
Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed by a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police office
