"Photographer Peter McBride traveled along the Colorado River from its source high in the Rocky Mountains to its historic mouth at the Sea of Cortez. In this Yale Environment 360 video, he follows the natural course of the Colorado by raft, on foot, and overhead in a small plane, telling the story of a river whose water is siphoned off at every turn, leaving it high and dry 80 miles from the sea."

"The PyTEC system heats mixed waste, releasing a gas that can be burned to produce five times more energy than is required to drive the system. ... The approach could see use in urban areas, reducing municipal waste volume by 95% while producing energy."

"As I write this, there's an insane dust storm that's sweeping over Sydney. I found out about it by seeing a Twitter post from Dan Hill. I'm based in San Francisco but found it so extraordinary I decided to go and see if I could spot pictures coming in and make a little gallery out of them."

"An elevated park in the sky built on top of the skeleton of an old rail system? It may have sounded impossible only five years ago, but today, the eagerly awaited High Line elevated urban park officially opens for thousands of New Yorkers looking to escape the hubbub of the city below! "

"The police officer's profile page on social networking site Facebook contained a message apparently written by Pc Ward at 2017 BST on 1 April. It stated: 'Rob Ward can't wait to bash some long haired hippys up @ the G20.'"

"So the Russians erected autonomous nuclear-powered lighthouses. Which worked great, until the collapse of the Soviet Union. In fact, they probably would have been fine after that, if people hadn’t looted them for copper and anything else that looked like it wasn’t nailed down too hard. Including, apparently, reactor shielding."

"The majority of the panel agrees that genetically modified plants are ok, “as long as their independence, i.e., reproductive ability and adaptive ability, are ensured.” In other words, no forced sterility and terminator genes."

"The Windbelt is simpler and more efficient [than a] ... conventional wind generator - a magnet mounted on a vibrating membrane simply oscillates between wire coils ... where an electric current is induced."

"What the überbox did contain was 16 smaller boxes "which in turn [each] contained (wrapped in foam so they wouldn't get broken) exactly two sheets of A4 paper"

"None of it will matter ... once we reach peak solar in 2015."

"Your power consumption is seven times larger than ours (ignoring fuel consumption which is a major component). ... Do you ever wonder why the rest of the world wants [Americans] to hold back on the raping the planet?"

"The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, se

"Researchers have developed a technique that harvests energy from rain showers and converts it into electricity. The technology could work in industrial air conditioning systems, where water condenses and drops like rain."

"Say goodbye to plastic cutlery and hello to SpudWare—cutlery made from 80% potato starch and 20% soy oil that’s just as heat resistant and every bit as strong as plastic cutlery."

The National Public Radio (NPR) recently reported that the Chicago Park District has installed 25 solar-powered trash compactors to keep the beaches clean and safe. The BigBelly units look like ordinary trash cans, but can hold up to 4 to 6 times as much