Saul Griffith led off Greener Gadgets 2009 with one of the best 40 minute explanations of why (to use his words) we're all a bunch of "planet fuckers" and what we can do to change that in terms of our energy ......

Hard Times for Amphibians It isn't only frog populations that are in decline (though in some places like Australia it's the inverse problem). Salamander populations have plummeted too according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley.......

Antarctica Warming is Continent-Wide A new study published in Nature contradicts a story that made the rounds a few years ago and said that the the icy slabs on Antarctica have cooled slightly and possibly thickened "partly in response to the chilling seasonal effects of the ozone hole over the Sout...

image: Goddard Space Flight Center You may find this hard to believe considering the wintry weather across much of the US, but the long term trend is still for warmer ice-free summers in Arctic. In fact we have probably already passed a tipping point and are 20 years ahead of schedule on the melting...