environment

An Oil Well Killer Meets His Prey

Jeff Neumann · 05/26/10 06:02AM

Today BP is trying a "top kill" to stop the oil leaking into the Gulf. The man tasked with doing it, Pat Campbell, has some words for the well: "I'm here, I'm touching you, I'm telling you you're dead."

Oil Spill Day 28: The Good News Dies Fast

Jeff Neumann · 05/17/10 04:25AM

Good news: BP says that the siphoning tube is starting to work. Bad news: The spill is heading closer to a "loop current" that would pull it into the Atlantic Ocean and up the East Coast. [WSJ, AP, Getty]

The Icelandic Volcano is Heating Up Again

Jeff Neumann · 05/07/10 07:28AM

A new four-mile high cloud of ash has reportedly shot out of the the Eyjafjoll volcano in Iceland. The Institute of Earth Science said there are "no signs of the eruption ending soon." [AFP]

This Bird Has Already Ruined Summer

Jeff Neumann · 04/28/10 05:24AM

A stormy winter has taken a toll on beaches in the Hamptons, and repair crews have worked non-stop rebuilding dunes and constructing sea walls. But this endangered bird's nesting season starts soon and crews have only until Friday to finish.

Promiscuous DC Residents are Creating Sexually-Confused Fish

Jeff Neumann · 04/21/10 06:26AM

Birth control pills being flushed down toilets are creating a "toxic stew" that turns male fish in the Potomac River into an intersex species who carry eggs in their testes. 90% of DC's drinking water comes from the river.

LA Loses Last Bastion of Endangered Sushi

gawker.com · 03/11/10 05:53AM

Riding high on Oscar glory, the brains behind dolphin hunting documentary The Cove, along with several federal agencies, busted Santa Monica hot-spot eatery The Hump for serving endangered Sei whale meat.

Every Time You Wear Bamboo Clothing, a Dolphin Dies

Ravi Somaiya · 11/12/09 06:36AM

Supposedly eco-friendly cloth made from bamboo is in fact evil and made with toxic chemicals and you might as well wear panda-hide while driving a Humvee and shooting rockets at pretty little birdies.

That Oxygen? Thank Seafaring Virus!

Andrew Belonsky · 08/30/09 08:22PM

Oxygen. It's a blessed, life-sustaining thing. We all need it. We all love it. And for so many years we were giving kudos to trees, whose photosynthesis takes in yucky carbon dioxide and gives us that life gas. No more!

Al Gore's Light Bulbs Are Fail

John Cook · 03/28/09 11:00AM

All those curly-cue planet-saving fluorescent light bulbs that Al Gore made everyone buy even though they cost $30 and cast a sickly pale glow DON'T WORK.

French newspaper says Macs cause cancer

Nicholas Carlson · 10/01/08 11:40AM

The Liberation of France says an oft-noticed smell emitted by Apple's Mac Pro desktop computers is caused by a combination of toxins, including benzene, which is known to cause leukemia. The questions now have to be: What did Apple know and when did Apple know it? Posts in Apple support forums, full of Mac Pro owners complaining of the smell, indicate Apple was well-aware of how their computers smell. One owner writes, "They guy in the service center said that every Mac Pro he has set up has the smell at first, so it appears to be normal in his experience." There's no mention of benzene in the forum. Some particularly damning posts: