Photos via the BBC It’s one of the (if not the ) rarest flower in the world: the Middlemist’s Red exists in only two known locations: a greenhouse in the UK, and a garden in New Zealand. Imported to Britain two hundred years ago from China,... 

Photo via FreeSpeech Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so. The Secretary General for the UN said that scientists from academies around... 

Just in time for South Africa to host the World Cup, a group of Harvard students have created a way to provide energy from a soccer ball. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the sOccket . The Caribbean nation of Anguilla may be lush with tropical forests... 

photo: Yusuke Kawasaki via flickr. The US has agreed to back an international ban on trade in critically endangered bluefin tuna , and now the European Union nations will do so as well, with Malta being the only dissenting vote. That still leaves us... 

This photo, via The Telegraph , shows just how difficult it is to move one of the large, primitive cycads. Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style, from a botanical garden... 

photo: Kartikeya Kaul via flickr. India the world’s last major emitter to formally back the Copenhagen Accord has done so. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said the decision reflected India’s contributions in shaping the Accord. Ramesh... 

It’s no secret that the world population of bluefin tuna is declining rapidly. The scientific and conservation communities have been calling for an international trade ban for years and Mathew told us last year about a report stating that Atlantic... 

In Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, I have presented a plan to dramatically reduce carbon emissions by increasing energy efficiency and replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. In the push to reduce emissions, all eyes are on China,... 

Image credit: Good Critical mass began in San Francisco in 1992 as a means of increasing awareness of cyclists rights. Since then, the movement has spread across the country and the world. Now, the city that gave birth to critical mass is thinking about... 

Image credit: Good With the technology available today, powering an airplane with solar power doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. But this isn’t keeping people from trying. Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, specifically, are working...