Pacific Rim New Wave Style Maple Bed Pacific Rim furniture is solidly constructed of Pacific Coast Maple, sustainably grown and harvested in managed forests of Washington and Oregon. Pacific Rim furniture is handrubbed with a mixture of tung oil, boiled linseed oil and verathane for a finish that is inert when dry. The Pacific Rim New [...]...

Here’s a rather interesting article on the arctic ice melting to the 3rd smallest area on record today found on Reuters website… Los Angeles (Reuters) - The Arctic’s sea ice pack thawed to its third-lowest summer level on record, up slightly from the seasonal melt of the past two years but continuing an overall decline symptomatic of [...]...

Chevron Corp. sought Wednesday to force Ecuador into international arbitration for alleged trade violations, an apparent effort to protect itself against a feared negative ruling in a $27 billion lawsuit over environmental damage....

A new survey suggests that medical students often misbehave on social-networking sites like Facebook and YouTube -- sometimes at the expense of patient privacy...

Time.com - When a complex system, like the global climate, is about to experience a sudden, irrevocable change, there are early warning signs, according to a new paper in Nature...

Federal environmental regulators have sued the parent company of outdoor clothing company The North Face, alleging that shoes marketed as anti-bacterial violated federal pesticide laws....

Time.com - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon holds a high-level conference on climate change. U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese President Hu Jintao and other world leaders attend...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon challenged world leaders on Wednesday to cleanse the globe of nuclear weapons, tackle the threat of catastrohic climate change and combat growing poverty from the global financial crisis....

Your barista, your neighbor, the woman on the treadmill next to you: author Melinda Blau talks to TIME about why people we barely know are actually vital to our lives...

An operation is performed on a shark at a Dorset sealife centre - in what is thought to be the first such procedure out of water....

A study finds that dozens of bacteria may be living in the average showerhead. They're gross, but for most people, completely benign....

Mitsubishi Motors and PSA Peugeot Citroen are mobilizing quickly to get EVs in front of consumers after a recently signed EV collaboration. Peugeot is using the long-in-developing Mitsubishi MiEV as the template for its first production EV, the iOn. This model will first appear at this month’s Frankfurt Motor Show before hitting European streets at [...]...

The US government has spent more than one billion dollars on private sector renewable energy projects from the massive economic stimulus program passed seven months ago, officials said Tuesday....

Toyota is unveiling its first full hybrid model for the European market at this week’s Frankfurt Motor Show. The Auris HSD is a gas-electric hybrid hatchback ready to roll into the streets of London, Glasgow and other UK hubs by fall 2010. Toyota plans a first run of the Auris HSD in European factories by summer 2010 with [...]...