Senate Republicans block BP investigation
Senate Republicans recently blocked a bill that would give the presidential commission investigating the BP oil spill full subpoena powers in order to protect their pals in the oil industry.
Vladimir Putin shoots a whale
The Russian prime minister, a master of rugged self-promotion, helps scientists collect a skin sample from an endangered grey whale ... with a crossbow.
Link drop: Bears, billionaires, and British Petroleum
Fiat offers loaner bikes to drivers in need, the Atlantic Ocean gets its own garbage patch, and researchers find a massive oil plume lurking beneath the Gulf of Mexico.
Watch: Fire tornadoes scour Brazil
A fire tornado was recently caught on tape ripping through Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Chinese drivers stuck in month-long traffic jam
Road construction has created the mother of all traffic jams in Northern China, where some drivers have been stuck for well over a week.
Salvaging centuries old logs from Maine's lake bottoms
Why cut down trees when you can hoist them up from the bottom of the lake? Check out the DeadHead Lumber Company and its unique (and greener) method of lumbering.
Dive! The Movie: Dumpster diving against waste
Americans waste almost 100 million pounds of food every year. Much of that ends up in the trash bin behind the neighborhood grocery store.
The journey of the plastic shopping bag
Before the plastic shopping bag can settle into a life of ease in the Pacific ocean it must first navigate its way past dogs, park rangers, and tree branches.
Ground for Ground: Put your coffee back into the earth
Coffee grounds are better than gold in the garden. One Australian man got fed up with all the wasted grounds and started a movement to add them to the soil.
Behold the magic of the terrarium
A sealed terrarium is a little island of life, needing only sunshine to power its enclosed cycle of life.
