'I don't give a f--- if we agree': Arnold Schwarzenegger just gave a...
Actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has long been a passionate advocate for alternative energy.He’s in Paris as part of the UN Climate Change Conference, pairing up with his...
View ArticleA billion-dollar coffee empire is forming, but there's a massive problem...
Keurig Green Mountain, which makes the Keurig coffee brewers and single-brew K-cups, recently got acquired by JAB Group for $92 a share, a deal which values the company at $13.9 billion.Shares of...
View ArticleArnold Schwarzenegger doesn't 'give a damn' if you agree with him about the...
Arnold Schwarzenegger — who is making the rounds at the COP21 talks in Paris — wrote an epic Facebook post on December 7 about the threat of climate change and doesn't "give a damn" whether you agree...
View ArticleIn epic speech, Arnold Schwarzenegger compares using fossil fuels to...
The former Republican governor of California (and four-time Terminator) is doing the rounds at the climate talks in Paris with his successor, Governor Jerry Brown.Schwarzenegger recently posted a note...
View ArticleWhy the terrifying predictions for this year's El Niño may be wrong
California mudslides! Florida tornadoes! Killer New England ice storms!Is that the kind of weather we're in for this year?No, all that happened back in the winter of 1997-98 — courtesy of one ornery El...
View ArticleThis is what it would look like if you wore all the plastic bags you used in...
This man is wearing 500 plastic bags to show what humans are doing to the environment.Jim Ries is demonstrating how many bags the average person wastes in a year by attaching 500 of them to his body...
View ArticleGermany just fired up a monster machine that could revolutionize the way we...
On Thursday, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics fired up a monster machine that it hopes will change the world.The machine is called the Wendelstein 7-X, or W7-X for short. It's a type of...
View ArticleThe most breathtaking natural wonder in every state
What makes the US so beautiful is how its topography varies so dramatically from state to state. No wonder it's called "America the Beautiful."From arid deserts to lush forests, America's landscape is...
View ArticleAn important development just happened for this $20 million submarine hotel
Tourists looking for a room with an ocean view will be thrilled to hear about the development of a new submarine hotel, which will lie 8.5 meters (28 feet) beneath the waves.Having recently received...
View ArticleThis chilling photo shows what can happen after living in a polluted city for...
The same week Beijing issued its first-ever emergency red alert because of dangerous levels of smog, cardiologist Dr. Naresh Trehan released a photo showing the devastating effects of air pollution in...
View ArticleWorld leaders are about to announce an unprecedented climate change deal in...
PARIS (Reuters) - At the tail end of the hottest year on record, climate negotiators in Paris will aim on Saturday to seal a landmark accord that will transform the world's fossil fuel-driven economy...
View ArticleA coffee empire is forming, but there's a massive problem no one's talking...
Keurig Green Mountain, which makes the Keurig coffee brewers and single-brew K-cups, recently got acquired by JAB Group for $92 a share, a deal which values the company at $13.9 billion.Shares of...
View ArticleXprize just announced a $7 million competition to explore the ocean's hidden...
The ocean is big.It's so big that even with all the cutting-edge technology available to modern science, 95% of the ocean still remains completely unexplored.To help shrink that knowledge gap, the...
View ArticleThe Paris climate change deal has a worrisome gap
BRUSSELS - The omission of aviation from the Paris climate deal could cause "a very big problem" if talks next year fail to make progress on a global plan to reduce aircraft pollution, the European...
View ArticleVirtual reality could finally get people to care about climate change
As the founding director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Jeremy Bailenson firmly believes that statistics don't make people care about issues.Experiences do.That's why Bailenson has spent...
View ArticleHere’s what you should know about the new Paris climate deal
Over the past two weeks, leaders and delegates from 195 world nations have been formulating a global agreement on the reduction of climate change at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference.They've now...
View ArticleHere's an impact of climate change that we never saw coming
WASHINGTON - The melting of glaciers caused by the world's rising temperatures appears to be causing a slight slowing of the Earth's rotation in another illustration of the far-reaching impact of...
View ArticleHere’s what happens when the Arctic warms twice as fast as the rest of the...
For a second straight year, the Arctic is warming faster than any other place in the world, and walrus populations in the area’s Pacific and Atlantic ocean regions are thinning along with the ice...
View ArticleThe 'War on Drugs' is killing the environment
Long-standing drug policies backed by the United Nations and financed by the United States have not only failed to slow global drug trafficking, they may also be driving widespread environmental...
View ArticleDeadly heat stress could affect hundreds of millions of people by 2060
It’s getting hot in here.In a poster presented at this week's meeting of the American Geophysical Union, researchers from Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory found that over the next...
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