Heatwave

'Green News Report' - September 22, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.22.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S VERY SCARY RADIO REPORT...

'Green News Report' - September 20 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.20.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The Presi...

'Green News Report' - September 15, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.15.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Republica...

'Green News Report' - September 13, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.13.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Record U....

'Green News Report' - September 8, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.08.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: In our ex...

Now You Can Buy Air-Conditioned Clothing

Posted 09.24.2011

The heat has been unrelenting in many parts of the U.S. these past few weeks, but a small Japanese company may have the answer to help you keep cool: ...

HOT DAY, COOL PHOTOS: America Sweats It Out

Posted 09.21.2011

It's hot out there. We know it and you know it. The mercury has been hovering around and above 100 degrees in many parts of the country all week. At t...

Which Is Worse: Heat Or Humidity?

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.20.2011

WASHINGTON -- When it comes to the discomfort and health risks of the current heat wave, it's not just the heat or the humidity – it's both. The ...

WATCH: Summer School Students Face 'Miserable' Classroom Temperatures

Posted 09.20.2011

As Chicagoans deal with extreme heat and humidity, many students attending summer school classes in preparation for the important ISAT tests are being...

Chickens Cooked In Hot Car During Heatwave: First Avian Victims?

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.20.2011

GEORGETOWN, Ky. -- Police in Kentucky say 12 chickens were left in a hot car while their owners went shopping at Walmart. One of the chickens died ...

Climate Change and Mental Health: Extreme Weather Takes a Toll

Brenda Ekwurzel, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Brenda Ekwurzel, Ph.D.

With global temperatures already on the rise, and further warming virtually certain, climate change is having impacts around the globe. But being prepared can help people cope with the severe weather.

How to Cool Down While Powering Down (and Saving Money)

Nick Rosen | Posted 05.25.2011

Nick Rosen

Here is a distillation of the lessons I learned while researching my book Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America.

Putin's Pee Joke: It Would Be Funny if it Weren't so Sad

Simon Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011

Simon Shuster

It is one of Russia's oldest traditions to write directly to the Tsar when something goes wrong. Putin did not create this mentality. It is just a symptom of an authoritarian state that rests upon a giant, immovable bureaucracy.

Drunk Russians Drown Escaping Record Heat Wave

Posted 05.25.2011

Russians are flocking to local beaches to escape soaring temperatures in Moscow -- leading many, unintentionally, to their deaths. Area lakes and ...

Shopping Increases With Temperature

refinery29.com | Posted 05.25.2011

It's freakin' miserable outside. The 100+ temperatures in Manhattan have driven many to take root in front of any air conditioner unit they can find. ...

In the Last Decade - Extreme Weather Deaths Outnumbered War Casualties

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011

Tina Dupuy

Safe to say, nothing is so bad that a hurricane can't make worse. Take an existing problem, toss it around in the wind and smack it with flying debris...