Neodymium, lanthanum, dysprosium. They don’t have the same ring to them as gold and platinum, but they could very well be the high-cost, rare elements that define our environmental future. Neodymium, for example is essential to electric motors... 

This week is Carnival of the Green #195 and it’s being hosted by EcoTech Daily , a site that’s dedicated to bringing us the lastest and greatest in green technoloy, gadgets, and news. At EcoTech Daily, you can track the hottest CleanTech... 

(Ridiculous) image via Radioactive Liberty Slate’s Christopher Beam thinks it could. While many pundits and politicians are wondering if health care reform will be “Obama’s Waterloo” (some of whom, including the man who coined... 

This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post . For the first time, Kenya Wildlife Service is introducing white rhino from Lake Nakuru National Park to Nairobi National Park. Nairobi National Park will serve as a new home for... 

photo: Anna Pearson via flickr The focus keeps getting placed on the impact of global climate change on world water supplies: Oxfam highlights the effect of water shortages and declining crop yields in Nepal; IPCC chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri comments... 

Photo credit: Alex & Ani Some things, like broken relationships, should never have been made. Alex & Ani plucks bungled metals from their sordid situations—no questions asked—and recasts them into sophisticated statement pieces, gussying... 

The last time you went to the grocery store or the local Walmart , did you count the number of cleaners, soaps, and detergents that labeled themselves “green.” At Target last week while attempting to find the laundry detergent that was supposed to... 

Asphalt is ugly and flaky, and requires constant supervision. Snow and road repair can slow down traffic worse than an ugly accident, and the resources that go into building maintaining high-use highways are intimidating to consider. But there may be... 

Photo via NY Times In yet another controversial development in the case of the Tennessee coal ash spill , the millions of pounds of ash are being shipped from the accident site to a landfill in a poor county in Alabama…. Read the full story on... 

Photo via wwarby As if honey bees don’t have enough to worry about right now, it seems that cell phone towers may be problematic for the insects. According to a new study, a rapid drop in the bee population in Kerala, India is the result of recently...