Published on March 9th, 2014 | by Jo Borrás
Reports out of the Arctic over the past year have been anything but encouraging for planet-watchers, and this new video tracking 25 years of ice melt isn't any better... Read More →
Published on March 9th, 2014 | by Jo Borrás
CLICK HERE to return to Pickle Panda Finds Love in the Time of Robot Bees‘ table of contents. Part 1, Chapter 7 “Our reports indicate that she is not in her office,” said a tiny man ... Read More →
Published on March 9th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert
A firefighter pauses at the $2013 Rim Fire in Yosemite National Park, August-September 2013 (Calfire photo on facebook). President Obama released the federal budget for 2015 last week. Overall, it involves the lowest deficit ($514 billion) ... Read More →
Published on March 8th, 2014 | by James Ayre
The incredibly rare sight of an asteroid’s disintegration was recently captured in a series of images by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The images show (in great clarity) the never-before-seen process of a fully intact asteroid coming ... Read More →
Published on March 8th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert
Thanks to electronic communication—a force we usually consider an ally—humans have come to live under a 24/7 barrage of misinformation. For those of us on the progressive side of things, climate denialism on talk shows, sermons, ... Read More →
Published on March 7th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert
Laying a pipeline across agricultural land (photo: eponline.com). Friday afternoon, and officials at the State Department are probably breathing a huge sigh of relief. The official public comment period on the northern extension of the $5.4 ... Read More →
Published on March 6th, 2014 | by Jake Richardson
Everything at Tesla seems to be full steam ahead, and its European front is no exception. Recently at the Geneva Motor Show it announced that it will open over 30 new service centers and stores throughout ... Read More →
Published on March 5th, 2014 | by Jake Richardson
The BMW i3 is a five-door all-electric urban vehicle with an appealing design, sporty performance, and zero tailpipe emissions. It has a typical range of 80 to 100 miles but can achieve another 20 when in ... Read More →
Published on March 5th, 2014 | by Jake Richardson
You might expect the #1 solar area in America to be a city like San Franciso or San Diego. According to One Block Off the Grid*, it isn’t one of the largest metro areas, though—it’s Fresno, ... Read More →
Published on March 4th, 2014 | by Derek Markham
One of the most majestic endangered species in the American Southwest, the jaguar, may get a little bit of breathing room, in the form of habitat protection across 764,207 acres (1194 square miles) of southern Arizona ... Read More →
Published on March 4th, 2014 | by Ken Whitehead
World-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, and Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, are united by a common belief. They are members of an influential group of scientists and visionaries who believe that the ... Read More →
Published on March 3rd, 2014 | by Derek Markham
In what could be a potential gamechanger for wider adoption of renewable energy as a bigger component of utility grids, a large modular battery storage system is planned for construction later this year in Aachen, Germany. ... Read More →
Published on March 3rd, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert
Don’t look up… er, don’t look down… er, butt first… er, just turn around and crawl down on all fours as fast as you can (vertigo from facebook.com, no user credited)... Read More →
