Environment

Environment

3 Rail Workers Are Facing the Brunt of Lac-Mégantic Negligence Charges

05.14.14

By Keith Race
Tech

Local Protesters Are Killing Big Oil and Mining Projects Worldwide

05.12.14

By Jason Koebler
Food

Fancy Oysters are Fighting Tasmanian River Pollution

05.12.14

By Mitch Parker
Pulse

How a Single Tweet Could Land a Japanese Nuclear Activist in Jail

05.11.14

By Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky
Pulse

The Human Cost of Your Mother’s Day Flowers

05.11.14

By Michael Zelenko
Pulse

Communities Full of Land Mines Are Rejecting Land-Mine Removal

05.10.14

By Mark Hay
Environment

Papua New Guinea Is Cursed

05.09.14

By Vikram Gandhi
Pulse

Millions of Discarded Cigarette Butts Are Poisoning the Planet

05.08.14

By John Dyer
Pulse

Indigenous Lawsuits Could Paralyze Canada’s Tar Sands

05.06.14

By Michael Toledano
Tech

Another Arctic Spill Is Inevitable, and We Are in No Way Prepared

05.05.14

By Derek Mead
Tech

How Extreme Weather Convinced Obama to Fight Climate Change

05.05.14

By Brian Merchant
Food

Your Tuna Sandwich Might Be Illegal

05.04.14

By Matthew Zuras

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Believe It Or Not

Man Claims His Cat Got Jury Duty, and He Spent Six Weeks Fighting to Get Out of It

The Felix Martinez jury duty story was made up, but a Boston cat named Sal really was summoned in 2009 after a city census mix-up.

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By Ashley Fike
Photo by Dave Simpson/WireImage

Music

New Music Friday: 5 Songs You Need to Hear This Week (7/10)

This week, New Music Friday brings us the epic return of Gym Class Heroes, as well as new songs from Lakeview and Cain Culto.

22 minutes ago

By Stephen Andrew Galiher
Entertainment

22 Years Ago, Jon Stewart Went on ‘Crossfire’ and Basically Lit the Show on Fire

Stewart called the CNN debate show dishonest and accused its hosts of being “partisan hacks.” Months later, ‘Crossfire’ was canceled.

28 minutes ago

By Tony Alpsen
Photo by Pete Still/Redferns

Music

4 Singers With Iconic Voices Who Had to Undergo Surgery to Save Their Instrument

Many of the world’s most famous singers have undergone vocal surgery, such as Rod Stewart and Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant.

35 minutes ago

By Stephen Andrew Galiher
Entertainment

John Leguizamo Based His Washed-Up Movie Star Character in ‘The Menu’ on Steven Seagal: ‘I Hate Him’

Leguizamo has spoken of the violent 1995 incident on a number of occasions, and has never missed an opportunity to poke fun at his former co-star since.

36 minutes ago

By Tony Alpsen