Image: Craig Anderson, Flickr

Earlier this summer, when the BP Oil Spill was still at the top of the headlines everywhere, Russian predictions of a toxic rain consequent to the BP oil spill were generally dismissed by the scientific comm

Image Credit: Mehgan Murphy, National Zoo

If you've been to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.

photo via Nike

In an attempt to honor the 29 coal miners who tragically died last year at the Upper Big Branch coal mine, the West Virginia University Mountaineers have teamed up with Nike to create new football uniforms that have the mark of coal.

photo via RAN

Rainforest Action Network's new Executive Director, Rebecca Tarbotton, has big plans for the Bay Area-based advocacy group. RAN, which was founded in 1985, takes on big banks that are funding the coal industry, like JP Morgan and Chase, and it has worked to protect the world's most threatened rainforests, like those in Indonesia that are home to endangered orangutans and tigers.

photo: Michael Graham Richard

As most readers have probably heard or read by now, yesterday was a dramatic day at the Silver Spring, Maryland headquarters of TreeHugger's parent company, Discovery Communications.