Charley Cameron
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New Orleans, LA, United States
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This German village generates 500% more energy than it needs
Over the past 18 years, the village of Wildpoldsreid has invested in renewable energy projects like photovoltaics, biogas facilities, and a hydropower system. → Read More
"Unchecked climate change" causes atomic scientists to push Doomsday Clock closer to midnight
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has issued their first update to the symbolic Doomsday Clock since 2007, announcing that we have advanced by two minutes and are now at → Read More
How Cameroon’s exploding “killer lakes” claimed over 1,700 lives
On August 26, 1986, Lake Nyos exploded—and little within a 15 mile radius survived. → Read More
The Schiller X1 Lets You Bike Across the Waves
Developed by Judah Schiller and members of the Oracle sailing team, the Schiller X1 is a sleek, refined water bike. → Read More
The only Sumatran Rhino in the U.S. is headed to Indonesia to save his species
8-year-old Harapan is the last Sumatran rhino in the U.S., and one of fewer than 100 in the world. Later this year he will head home in the hopes that he will sire an offspring. → Read More
Austrian scientists create a cheap, flexible solar cell just 3 micrometers thick
The perovskite solar cells are the thinnest, lightest most efficient ever created. → Read More
This solar and wind-powered autonomous vehicle is out to unlock the secrets of the Celtic Sea
The C-Enduro will spend a month surveying the Celtic Sea in an effort to learn more about why so many marine predators are drawn to the area. → Read More
New Orleans' $14.5 billion rebuilt levees won't fight a Category 5 hurricane
New Orleans has the best protection against hurricane's it's ever had, but as The Lens reports, the flood protection is a compromise on the levels discussed in 2006. → Read More
A new kind of glass could create nex-gen OLEDs and solar cells
A team of scientists has accidentally created a new kind of glass, one which could be used to make more durable, efficient electronics. → Read More
South Africans revolutionize small-scale concentrated solar that’s cheaper than diesel
Concentrated solar power could provide one quarter of the world's energy by 2050, but first it has to be affordable, and this South African team may have cracked it. → Read More
7 Incredible Inventions by Teenage Wunderkinds
Check out our top picks of green designs and developments by teenagers around the globe. → Read More
Kenyan teenager converts his school’s poop into safe, clean energy
Leroy Mwasaru's Human Waste Bioreactor utilizes poo power to create clean cooking fuel for, and improve the environment around, his school. → Read More
A massive sinkhole has reopened in Florida, two years after it swallowed a local man
In Feburary 2013 a sinkhole appeared in Florida, swallowing a man as he lay in his bed. Over two years later, the sinkhole has reopened in exactly the same spot. → Read More
Zimbabwe charges game park owner for illegal hunt of Cecil the lion
Honest Ndlovu has been charged by Zimbabwe authorities for allowing the illegal killing of Cecil the lion by a US dentist on his property. → Read More
This California city is building a water park during the state’s worst drought
One East Bay city has broken ground of a massive $43.8 million water park, with no certainty that they'll even be able to fill the pool. → Read More
A superbly stinky Corpse Flower is about to blossom in Denver for the first time in 15 years
A rare and quite extraordinary plant known as the Corpse Flower is set to blossom at the Denver Botanic Gardens, and will provide visitors with an odor that is reportedly akin to → Read More
Brad Pitt's Make it Right to unveil their first tiny house in New Orleans
Make it Right has just announced that they are building a 496 square foot house—their first tiny home—for a middle school teacher in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. → Read More
Shell has been given approval to drill the Arctic for oil for the first time since 1991
The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced today that Shell will be permitted to drill for oil in rock 8,000 feet below the Arctic seabed. → Read More
World's cleanest power plant by BIG in Copenhagen will produce a ring of steam for each 1 tonne of CO2 released
BIG has designed the world's cleanest power plant for Copenhagen, and they're developing a chimney that will set a steam ring into the sky each time one tonne of CO2 is released. → Read More
This new material could efficiently turn greenhouse gases into fuel
A new catalyst designed by the DOE could streamline the process for turning carbon dioxide into biofuels. → Read More