Wonkblog's Timothy Lee has an interesting piece up on the use of commercial drones and states' efforts to come to grips with them...

Given the awful week we just went through, it might be easy to overlook Earth Day. After all, terrorist bombings and exploding fertilize...

The Marcellus shale formation is a huge deposit of rock that formed from the floor of a prehistoric sea. And it's massive. Taking up a l...

Yesterday, I wrote that any new nuclear plants in the US would likely be shoddy. "Take an industry that needs government assistance to ...

There are a lot of industries that would be adversely affected by global warming -- agriculture, fishing, real estate development, tourism, ...

It's always entertaining to see the rampant stupidity that a winter storm brings out in conservatives. A big blizzard really brings out...

NOTE: Got a bit of a project today -- a little involved, so it's going to take some time. As a result, you get a shorty today. You may n...

I've always felt that one of the best examples of human foolishness was offered by international oil corporations. At the same time they...

Toward the end of last month, I wrote that everyone was nationalizing the craziest teabagger candidates -- that is, everyone but the Democ...

I've decided that exercise is bad for you. Every time you light a candle, it gets shorter. Every time you take a drink of water, the gla...

If you've got a question about religion, ask an atheist. That's the short version of the findings of a Pew Forum on Religion and Pub...

Yesterday, we had two environmental near-disasters. In a saner world, this would serve as a reminder that we're dancing on the edge of d...

Around the world, people are facing record heat. The UK's Guardian newspaper reports , "Record highs have occurred in Russia, Bela...

One thing that global warming deniers really hate is being told that the debate is over. Of course, that's because the "debate...

Global warming is a hoax . Before you buy that line, it pays to consider which side of the aisle is making that claim. If the fact that thes...

Cap-and-trade is the purest form of socialism. It would be a tremendous destructive force on our market and a hidden tax that would destroy ...

Something that's been kind of distracting me lately is wind power. By now, we've all seen the giant wind generators, but what about ...

The oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico is bad. Really bad. Mile after mile after mile of bad. This bad: Visit msnbc.com for...

I want you to consider what I think is an undeniable and uncomfortable fact; that many so-called "climate change skeptics" are not...

Earlier this week, I wrote briefly about the decision by US District Court Judge Martin Feldman to strike down the Obama administraton'...