A Kick in the Gut: Chris Jordan's Midway - Photos from the Gyre

Chris Jordan is a photographer who creates stunningly memorable images by exploring "the detritus of our consumption ... with awe and fascination." You may have seen some of his other well-known artwork in his series...

"There has never been a time in history when something in the ocean wasn't food."
-- George Orbelian, Co-founder of Project Kaisei.

The Garbage Patch, or Plastic Vortex, is a huge area of floating plastic garbage that stretches hundreds of square miles northwest of Hawaii in...

Environmentalists have had to spend a lot of time sounding alarms over the years. So it's exciting to hear about a project that is taking on an appalling problem with practical solutions and creating commercial diesel fuel technology at the same time. I spoke recently with Doug Woodring, founder of...

Some people accept the premise that even if the Iraq war was misguided and mismanaged, the Bush regime was basically motivated to protect Americans. They say the events of 911 were so traumatic, and the terrorists were so crazy, that this justified what was done in our defense. The argument...

My 8th grade nephew won a "Metropolitan Mayor's Top 20 Outstanding Students Award" a couple weeks ago in Denver, CO. He's now going into a prestigious High School program for gifted college bound students. I'm very proud of him, and he is exceptional, but this wouldn't be big news were...