Asteroid 2005 YU55 zipped past the Earth at about 29,000 miles per hour tonight (that’s 8 miles a second) at about 6:28 p.m. EST. “It is the first time since 1976 that an object of this size has passed this closely to the Earth. It gives us a great chance to study a near-Earth object [...]

Over ten thousand people ringed the White House this past Sunday to voice their opposition to TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. There have been numerous White House protests recently, trying to convince President Obama to block the $7 billion pipeline that would take Alberta oilsands crude oil through six American states to Gulf Coast refineries. A [...]

Copenhagenize Consulting, a company based in Denmark have just released a list of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. Using a massive and thorough criteria list, the firm has examined each city based on the following factors: Advocacy. Bicycle Culture. Bicycle Facilities. Bicycle Infrastructure. Bike Share Programme. Gender Split. Modal Share For Bicycles. Perception [...]

A massive storm which crossed the Northeaster states over the weekend is being blamed for at least 21 fatalities – ranging from car accidents to electrocutions from fallen power lines. Snowfall reached 32 inches in some towns in the Berkshire Mountains. Over 3 million homes and businesses in the Northeast lost power at the height [...]

Earth’s population is currently growing by 80 million people per year. There are estimates that by 2050, the population could reach 10.5 billion. This projected population increase in less than 40 years is equivalent to the total size of the world population in 1950, and it will be coming mostly from the less developed regions, [...]

Finally, after several days of choppy waves and harsh weather, the seas have calmed enough to allow salvage crews to resume pumping the remaining fuel from the Liberian RENA – a cargo ship stuck, and spilling oil out onto a New Zealand reef. The ship has already spilled hundreds of tons of oil and crews [...]

The best way to prepare your home for the cold season is to winterize it. There are several steps you can take, all of which will end up saving you hundreds of dollars, and will eliminate hundreds of pounds of carbon emissions. Energy Star, a nationwide energy efficiency program sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection [...]

In September of this year, the extent of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean declined to the second-lowest extent on record. Satellite data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center showed that the summertime sea ice cover came very close to a new record low. Joe Comiso, senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard [...]

A recent study released by NASA has shown a massive loss of the protective ozone layer above the Arctic last winter and spring. The loss of the ozone in that region is caused by an unusually prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere. The study, published online today in the journal Nature, discovered [...]

16 people have died in the U.S. from listeria infections that came from cantaloupes grown in Colorado. This makes the outbreak the most deadly American outbreak of food-borne infection since 1998. So far 72 people in 18 states have gotten sick from the listeriosis which was quickly traced to contaminated cantaloupe. This information comes from [...]