Climate change – what does it mean for Vietnam?

    The World Meteorological Organization reported that globally, 2010 was the hottest year on record. Nine of the ten hottest years ever recorded were in the first decade of this century. The Earth is warming very fast – the Arctic ice sheet has never been as thin as it is this winter. And the [...]

In the Mountains of Patagonia, a Harbinger of a Rising Ocean

    Land ice is melting virtually everywhere in the world, one of the central pieces of evidence that the earth is warming. Scientists have long known that this synchronized ice melt seemed to be picking up speed in many places, but detailed measurements for individual glaciers and ice fields have been hard to come [...]

Ecovative: Helping Ford build car parts made of mushrooms

    Ecovative Design, a startup in Green Island, N.Y., is collaborating with the Ford Motor Company (F, Fortune 500) to develop a fungus-based, biodegradable foam for automotive bumpers, side doors and dashboards. “You would be able to compost your car,” says Gavin McIntyre, 25, chief scientist and co-founder of Ecovative. via CNN.com

Richard Wiles: That Awkward Conversation (About the Climate)

If someone told all the parents of the world that there was a 98 percent chance that radical environmental changes in the next 10 – 50 years will wipe out half of all known life forms on earth, and that famine, plagues, floods and droughts on a scale not seen in thousands of years would [...]

Einstein was right – honey bee collapse threatens global food security

Almost a third of global farm output depends on animal pollination, largely by honey bees. These foods provide 35pc of our calories, most of our minerals, vitamins, and anti-oxidants, and the foundations of gastronomy. Yet the bees are dying – or being killed – at a disturbing pace. The story of “colony collapse disorder” (CCD) [...]

Kids Remind Us What a Tough Year 2010 Was for the Climate

This video features a bunch of kids talking about just how bad a year 2010 was for climate and the environment, from legislation to unnatural disasters like the Gulf oil spill to deaths in coal mines. via GOOD.

Improve your memory – take a walk

In healthy adults, the hippocampus — a part of the brain important to the formation of memories — begins to atrophy around 55 or 60. Now psychologists are suggesting that the hippocampus can be modestly expanded, and memory improved, by nothing more than regular walking. via NYTimes.com.