A blue moon is the second full moon in a month. Of course the blue moon won’t actually be blue, the name has nothing to do with the color. A full moon occurred on December 2nd and it will appear again on Thursday in time for the New Year’s countdown. The New Year’s Eve blue [...]

Erik Gates, who was a regular on the show “MythBusters” as its “Amateur Rocket Expert,” has died in a tragic fall. He was 47 years old. According to media reports, Gates was at a building in Newbury Park, California, doing electrical work on a roof, when he fell 30 feet from a skylight. He died [...]

Renewable energy currently makes up 1% of total electricity consumption in Germany, Handelsblatt reported, according to an industry study. This indicates that Germany has exceeded the European Union’s 2010 goal of 12.5%, according to a study by the Berlin- based utility association BDEW, the newspaper said in a preview of an article scheduled to be [...]

Set in the heart of beautiful Shanghai is China’s first carbon neutral hotel, URBN Hotels Shanghai. The country is known to have one of the largest carbon footprints in the world and this is a great step in leading the way to creating a new trend in China. And just last week, URBN Hotels Shanghai, [...]

This month the Transamerica Pyramid, aka the most famous building in San Francisco, is now one of the most environmentally friendly buildings in the United States and has achieved a LEED-Gold certification. Green building is really taking off in San Francisco and with new aggressive green building regulations in place for new construction and large [...]

BlackBerry is blaming a flawed application for its latest round of email and Internet outages. Things started going bad on Tuesday night, when customers in North American and South America were unable to send or receive messages. Phone calls and text messages were not affected. Research In Motion, the Canadian company that makes BlackBerrys, said [...]

Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla, Yunnan Province, in China met the lonely and ill-fated tiger this year while fishing for clams in a nature reserve near China’s border with Laos. He claimed to have killed the tiger in self defense. Kang’s dinner was likely the only known wild Indochinese tiger in China, photographed in [...]

The European Union called on the United States this week to play a larger role in combating climate change, after Sweden described the Copenhagen summit last week as a “great failure.” After over a year of planning, the climate talks came down to one thing – the inability of the world’s two largest emitters, the [...]

Brittany Murphy, who made her breakout as the lovable friend to Alicia Silverstone’s character in “Clueless,” has sadly died at the age of 32. Paramedics were called to the L.A. home that she shared with her husband, Simon Monjack, when her mother found her unconcious in the shower. When they arrived, paramedics determined Murphy had [...]

The two-week Copenhagen climate summit, which had seen a deadlock between leaders has finally come to some sort of conclusion as key states reach what they refer to as a “meaningful agreement.” President Obama said the US, China, Brazil, India and South Africa had “agreed to set a mitigation target to limit warming to no [...]