Photo via Wikipedia On Friday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White revoked a five-year-old approval of genetically altered sugar beets from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Judge White cited the USDA’s insufficient testing of weedkiller-tolerant... 

Here is a sweaty stat to start your weekend off right: This summer 17 nations have already set or matched their all-time heat records; not to mention an all-time hottest temperature for Pakistan, and possibly all of Asia. In other green news, NASA has... 

Photos: Courtesy of Pauline in Love. While most people will probably agree in that the work of TOMS shoes is remarkable, some argue that encouraging change in society to avoid poverty in the first place is better than charity. Enter Pauline in Love ,... 

There’s a myth that to eat healthily we must eat boring tasteless food. But there’s fight on to persuade people that eating a balanced diet can be utterly delicious. Jamie Oliver has taken on the nutrition battle this year with his TED prize... 

Nathaniel Corum in the cabin of the Plastiki; Photo by Matthew Gray A few weeks ago, Bruce Nussbaum started a firestorm of controversy with his post in Fast Company: Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism? In it, he asked, Is the new humanitarian... 

Image credit: AP Photo/NOAA The Sapphire Princess , a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, struck a 43 foot long female humpback whale on Wednesday, causing it to become lodged in an undersea protuberance of the bow. The ship, en route to Juneau,... 

photo: Franco Folini via flickr Even though it often seems that even mentioning climate change or pricing carbon on a national basis is an utter nonstarter, here’s another example of how states aren’t waiting for the Feds to get their act... 

Image via: Algalita Marine Research Foundation We must recognize that everything we create as a society has a future that we cannot see. Every product we make lives on after our brief interaction with it. Nowhere is that more apparent than the plastic... 

photo: AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel If you’re sweating through a heatwave right now, take comfort knowing that you don’t have massive peat-fires sending smoke across your town too, like in Moscow: The Russian capital experienced a record high... 

Image: GM HFO-1234yf Will be Used in GM’s 2013 Models We talk a lot about CO2 because it is the greenhouse gas that humanity produces in the biggest quantity, but there are many others that contribute to warming our planet. The refrigerant in automobile...