Icelandic Company Cancels Its Summer Hunt For The Endangered Fin Whale

The endangered fin whale will be catching a lucky break this summer, at least off the shores of Iceland. Whaling company Hvalur, the Nordic country’s lone fin whale h...

One Of The World's Last Remaining Whaling Companies Is Hanging Up Its Harpoons

One of the world's last whaling companies has announced that it won't be manning the harpoons this summer, deciding it's too hard to market the meat.
Iceland's Hvalur ...

True Review Movie - Spotlight

Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, d'Arcy James

Direction: Tom McCarthy...

Greenhouse Gases Could Eventually Heat The Earth Enough To Boil Its Oceans Away

In 2013, NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen published a short whitepaper that warned if humans burned all the planet’s available fossil fuels, i...

Here's Why Polar Bears' Summer Just Got A Bit Worse

The area of frozen ocean that caps the North Pole was smaller this past month than during any January on record.
Measurements released last week by the National Snow ...

Lego Unveils First Ever Minifigure In Wheelchair

Images taken at the Nuremberg toy fair by fan group Promobricks show a wheelchair-using Lego figurine, complete with helper dog, following #ToyLikeMe equality campaign The ...

Humans Were Living In The Arctic 15,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought

Around 26,000 years ago, the ice sheets comprising the Earth?s arctic regions reached their maximum extension, reaching as far south as Germany. This period is appropriatel...

Global Warming Could Delay The Next Ice Age By 100,000 Years

In a study published this Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research make clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions...

A Scorecard For Companies With A Conscience

Eleven years ago, the Vermont-based ice cream-maker Ben and Jerry?s found itself in a position other companies might have found enviable. Several firms were bidding to buy ...