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Watch: British Petroleum fails booming school

In this saucy video remake of a virally popular Daily Kos post, you’ll learn how to properly boom against an oil spill and why BP and the Coast Guard are doing it wrong. [...]

Playing catch up: Class dismissed

Escaping the office early today? Start the holiday weekend off right with ‘politically incorrect gardening,’ extreme cleaning and a haunted historic home that just reentered the real estate market. [...]

Bee-curious? Pointers on keeping bees

Lifelong beekeeper Andrew Coté shares his tips. [...]

MNN week in review: Gulf oil gushes, female Viagra and more

Catch up on the environmental headlines from the week of May 23-29. [...]

Obama’s decision to halt offshore drilling stirs debate

From the Arctic Ocean to the Chesapeake Bay, the decision is stirring passions on both sides of an already contentious issue. [...]

Rich countries increase deforestation aid to $4 billion

The funds will go toward financing and facilitating the reduction of deforestation emissions from developing countries. [...]

Global floating ice in ‘constant retreat’

The ice shows an instability that will increase global sea levels. [...]

U.S. climate bill seen unlikely in 2010

Other countries are waiting for the bill to pass so progress can be made on an international pact to battle global warming. [...]

Haiti knowledge helps Florida boy win geography bee

Aadith Moorthy, 13, won a $25,000 college scholarship and a trip to the Galapagos Islands. [...]

22-mile oil plume under Gulf nears rich Florida waters

The cloud of oil was nearing a large underwater canyon whose currents fuel the foodchain in Gulf waters off Florida. [...]