Rescue teams are searching the San Diego coastline for the nine people who were aboard a coast guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter that tragically collided at around 7:10 p.m. on Thursday evening. The cause of the crash has not yet been determined. The crash site is about 15 miles east of San Clemente [...]

Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore will be appearing on David Letterman to talk about his new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. The book written as a follow-up to his 2006 book “An Inconvenient Truth.” “An Inconvenient Truth” was written to draw attention to the massive environmental problems our planet [...]

House Democrats unveiled the new health care bill today. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that the $894 bill will provide “universal quality affordable health care for all Americans.” In a written statement, President Obama said, “As I’ve said throughout this process, a public option that competes with private insurers is the best way [...]

Four people have apparently died of the H1N1 vaccine in Sweden. Two elderly patients who had preexisting health conditions died just days after receiving the swine flu vaccine and two others who also suffered from health conditions. It has not been proven that the swine flu vaccine caused their deaths. CBS medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer [...]

Get ready for an extra hour of sleep starting November 1, people. Daylight saving time in most of the United States ends this at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 1  when we “fall back” into daylight saving time mode. Most U.S. residents set their clocks one hour forward in spring and one hour back in [...]

A tanker ship collided with a supply vessel offshore Texas this morning, spilling 68,140 liters of fuel oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The tanker, Liberian-flagged Krymsk, collided with a 166-foot offshore supply vessel, AET Endeavor, damaging one of the Krymsk’s two fuel tanks and spilling oil. “The leak has [...]

Dr. Woody Harrelson? Okay. York University in Toronto is giving an honorary Doctorate to the actor for his work with environmental issues. “Mr. Harrelson’s understanding of why we each need to reduce our ecological footprint is authentic, and his efforts to inspire others to grasp and act on this concept provide an object lesson for [...]

The U.S. Energy Department has bought a geothermal plant near Casper, Wyoming for an undisclosed amount. The plant was designed to produce 250 kilowatts of electricity and has been operating for over a year, providing electricity to operate oil wells. Ormat Technologies built the plant to prove the feasibility of using geothermal power to generate [...]

No Impact Week is an 8-day long project that starts Sunday, October 18th. Huffington Post Green, Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Initiative and The No Impact Project joined up to bring the very first No Impact Week to The Huffington Post. The No Impact Project is a nonprofit started by Colin Beavan, star of the [...]

Falcon Heene, the 6-year-old who was last seen floating off in a helium balloon constructed by his father, has been found. Apparently, the boy was found hiding in a box in the attic of his family’s home. Apparently the boy and his father had been building a “flying saucer covered in foil and filled with [...]