Last year, Delegate Tom Hucker, D-Montgomery, and Sen. Paul Pinsky, D-Prince George’s, announced a measure that would ban arsenic from chicken feed in the state. The bill would have prohibited the use, selling, or distributing commercial feed intended for use as poultry feed that contains Roxarsone or any other additive …

NRDC/via It has now been nearly two full years since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, loosing a massive geyser of oil into the marine ecosystems. Since then, biologists have been working diligently to understand the full impact that the disaster has wrought on the region’s …

Juan Ordonez/CC BY 3.0 When Juan Ordonez’s elementary-school-aged daughter started clamoring for a computer, he had an idea. Rather than buy her a brand new laptop and pay for all kinds of fancy capabilities she doesn’t need, he decided to take two old broken iBook G4 800s, one with a …

© Green Dot Award Have you ever wondered how the energy expended by joggers or people using the fitness equipment in public parks could be harnessed for the greater good? Neither have I. But apparently someone is thinking about this and has come up with an interesting concept gadget. The …

Port of San Diego/CC BY 2.0 It’s a well-known story to those who follow clean energy affairs: A few years ago, China began aggressively subsidizing its solar panel manufacturing industry. With its economy less hindered by the global recession, the nation pumped tens of billions of dollars into the sector. …

Scott Smith/CC BY 2.0 There have been a near surfeit of reports recently looking at the greenhouse gas emissions of natural gas, most of which have concluded that, to varying degrees, we’re underestimating emissions, the effects of methane leakage on those, and natural gas isn’t always as climate-friendly as claimed. …

© Curtis Myers We see a lot of various bikes on these pages — some striking, some not so much — but one can clearly imagine zipping along a sun-dappled road with this beautiful bike, going home from the farmer’s market. Called the Shape Field Bike, it’s a thoughtful collaboration …

thompiksphotography/CC BY 3.0 If you’d like to steal a bike—if you are not bothered by the moral ramifications of doing so—and you live somewhere crowded and urban like New York City, go ahead and do it. Statistically, you are almost certain to get away with it. Why? Nobody cares about …

© Ford Sadly, Ford continues to release its most fuel-efficient models – branded ECOnetic – in Europe only, with no current plans, as far as I know, to bring them over to North-America. Yet in many ways, N.A. needs these gas-sipping models more than anywhere else, and with recent fuel …

MIT/via Reducing the speed of light using nanotech could lead to new ways to generate electricity, say MIT researchers. A paper about to be published in the forthcoming issue of the journal Nano Letters describes the creation of a “metamaterial” that promises much more efficient absorption of a wide range …

Native News Project/Screen capture There’s an oil field near downtown Poplar, Montana and it’s contaminating the city’s water supply. By EPA estimates, more than 40 million gallons of brine have entered the drinking water aquifer over five decades. Now, the agency is holding three oil companies at least partly responsible …

Steven Depolo/CC BY 2.0 In a long-awaited decision, last week the Food and Drug Administration disappointed health advocates once again by allowing Bisphenol A or BPA, a known endocrine disruptor, to remain approved as a chemical additive in food containers such as plastic bottles and metal cans.While the agency says …

© James Grashow Think Trevi Fountain in Rome–only in cardboard. That’s a start on James Grashow’s concept of his huge recycled cardboard sculpture, Corrugated Fountain, on display at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. It is complete with Poseidon, tritons, heroes, sea horses riding nymphs, dolphins, giant fish, …