environment

With Earth Day, come along the doomsayers that would have us all be dead from a single AAA battery thrown out in the wrong way. Let’s see if they’re really paying attention, and run through the top three ecological disasters to occur during the last year or so, the...

Wind turbines are wonderful things. They generate awesome amounts of electricity, day or night, as long as there is at least a slight breeze. Unfortunately, they also have a reputation for being a little unfriendly to our avian friends. The trouble with conventional wind turbines is the color. Bugs...

Does the planet really need a school bus powered by a jet engine? Not so much. But you do sort of have to admire the kind of insane creativity that goes into the conception and creation of such a monstrosity. So how quickly can it go? It was clocked...

A group of surfers in Chile claim to have found the perfect break and are not afraid to brave extreme pollution to enjoy it. Ventana beach in Santiago, Chile receives polluted outflow from no less than ten thermoelectric power stations, which leaves the water brimming with arsenic, mercury, lead...

A team of pitcher plant experts on an expedition in the Philippines has discovered a new species of giant pitcher plant that is able to consume rats. The team, comprised of Stewart McPherson of Red Fern Natural History Productions based in the UK, botanist Alastair Robinson, and Volker Heinrich,...