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The Weirdest Energy Sources In The World
New sources of energy are constantly being discovered. And some are pretty inventive. From soccer balls to pigs to human body heat, here are some of the strangest alternative energy sources we've...
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Western Drought Could Last 100 Years
Western forests could be facing a 100-year drought, turning to scrubland by the end of the century – and taking their ability to soak up carbon with them, according to a new study. The new research,...
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Disturbing Pictures From One Of The Most Polluted Rivers In The Country
The Androscoggin River flows nearly 170 miles, beginning in New Hampshire and continuing through Maine before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean. In the 1960s, it was considered one of the most polluted...
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Climate Change Skeptic U-Turns And Says Warming Is Real And Humans Caused It
A prominent scientist who was skeptical of the evidence that climate change was real, let alone that it was caused by humans, now says he has made a "total turnaround." Richard Muller, a professor of...
View ArticleWoman's Water Is Flammable, Which She Says Is Because Of Fracking
This woman is Sherry Vargson, and in this video she is lighting her water on fire as it comes out of the faucet. The water is flammable because of increased methane levels, which she says are caused...
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Finally There's A Better Way To Dispose Of Waste From An Airplane
Sewage is nasty work, but Namon Nassef has built his career on finding innovative ways to clean it up. The 64-year-old engineer is the inventor of the Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) system, a product...
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How This Small Machine Turns Human Waste Into Clean Water Vapor
Namon Nassef's Zero Liquid Discharge system uses engine heat to convert wastewater into water vapor. It's an invention seven years and several hundred thousands dollars in the making that could...
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Facebook's Carbon Footprint Is Incredibly Small
Facebook has, for the first time, revealed the carbon footprint of its operations and its more than 900m users' likes, photo albums and status updates. The data, published on Wednesday, shows that...
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Maps Show Every Major Fire In America Since 2001
John Nelson of IDV Solutions is an expert at turning raw data into visually-stunning risk maps. You may remember his maps of the the world's earthquakes since 1898 or the biggest tornado risks. "Once...
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Amazing 'Fire Rainbow' Image Captured In South Florida
So-called "fire rainbows" are neither on fire nor are they rainbows, but they sure are stunning. They are technically known as iridescent clouds, a relatively rare phenomenon caused by clouds of water...
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You Haven't Seen The Worst Of Extreme Flooding [PRESENTATION]
Scientists have previously suggested that climate change leads to heavy rain and flooding. A new study provides more evidence of this link. The study, "When It Rains, It Pours: Global Warming and the...
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It's So Hot In Oklahoma That Street Lights Are Melting
Gawker's Neetzan Zimmerman came across this photo posted by Oklahoma's KFOR-TV to its Facebook page. Yes, those are street lights — melting! The photo is from Stillwater, Oklahoma, where...
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Calorie-Free 'Miracle Noodles' Are The Latest Diet Craze
A virtually tasteless gelatinous mass doesn't sound that great, does it? That's why they call it the miracle noodle instead. This latest diet-food craze is being used as a replacement for traditional...
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Photos Of Tourists Flocking To Watch Atomic Explosions [SATIRE]
On Aug. 6, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The blast killed around 140,000 people and ravaged 90 percent of the city. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. An...
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Computers Go Where People Can't To Find New Sources Of Gold
Gold and other valuable metals hidden within mountain ranges can now be discovered through 3D computer models, says an Israeli researcher who developed the software for them. Mountain ranges are...
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Massive Floods Displace 1.2 Million People In The Philippines
A massive typhoon that hit Manila, Philippines' capital city, has brought torrential rainfall and floods, affecting more than 1.2 million. Rivers swelled and landslides have engulfed a large part of...
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US Is Finally Cleaning Up Agent Orange Sprayed On Vietnam During The War
HANOI (Reuters) - The United States and Vietnam on Thursday began cleaning up the toxic chemical defoliant Agent Orange on part of Danang International Airport, marking the first time Washington has...
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Six Innovations To Help Humans Make It Through The Coming Droughts And Floods
Wild geoengineering schemes may aim to reverse global warming by reflecting sunlight into space or storing excess carbon dioxide, but they won't spare humanity from living through climate change in...
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Computer Scientists Accidentally Discover How Rare Twinned Rainbows Form
Double rainbows had their fifteen minutes of fame on the Internet. Now get ready for their even more mysterious cousins: twinned rainbows. New research has suggested an explanation for these exotic...
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All The Places In The World That Are Running Out Of Water [MAP]
About 1.7 billion people rely on aquifers that are rapidly being depleted and would take thousands of years to refill, according to a new study in the journal Nature. The report, "Water balance of...
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