Making a slow boat look fast...

Container ship photo: Daniel Ramirez; airliner photo: Bob MacInnes

Two things which I think are worth keeping front and center when discussing

A labeled satellite image taken July 11 by the European Space Agency. Image via BBC.

The 30 bottles of pre-French Revolution champagne recently recovered from the bottom of the Baltic Sea were a pretty awesome find.

photo: Nick Ares via flickr

A new report by the Green Scissors Campaign details some $200 billion worth of yearly US government subsidies that the coalition says are "wasteful to taxpayers, harmful to the environment and bad for consumers."

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There's lots of overlap between ending our oil addiction in the United States and combatting climate change, with setting a price on carbon (regardless of the mechanism used, be

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China passed the United States in terms of national carbon emissions a couple years back, and according to new data from the International Energy Agency also just passed the US in terms of total energy consumption.

That's 24 minutes right there...

photo: Scott Chang

With China's leading the globe in national carbon emissions, and per capita emissions now being higher than those in France, this is all the more poignant:

Image credit: Wyoming: Upper Green River Valley/Flickr

Natural gas "fracking" has become a contentious issue in the U.S., and now residents in four regions are getting the opportunity to talk about their concerns with the practice.

The U.S.

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You'd have to be living in a cave since the beginning of the BP oil spill to not have heard, or made, statements about never letting this sort of environmental disaster happen again and kicking