Mad Rush: Limbaugh claims solar and wind industries don’t exist | Grist

Clean energy isn’t just the future of the 21st century economy, it’s driving the present.

Why less arctic ice means more mercury in your babies | Grist

Here is a thing I definitely would not have understood without this animation.

Mercury Myths

There's even some evidence that human beings are exposed to less mercury today than in the past. Alaska's Public Health Department, for example, reports that when the hair of eight 550-year-old Alaskan mummies was tested for mercury, the results showed levels averaging twice the blood-mercury concentration of today's Alaskans.

Europe slammed by extreme winter weather

According to CNN, at least 135 people have died in Ukraine, more than 50 in Poland, 64 in Russia, 39 in Romania and hundreds more across Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, France, Italy and other countries in Europe.