Photo via The Cove The Cove has made a tremendous impact on people when it comes to raising awareness about the slaughter of dolphins and the dark story of whale meat in the fish market. It has changed lives, riled people up, won its Oscar, and now it just might turn into a new TV Series on Animal Planet starting this fall. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Photo: Nissan Correction: It looks like BusinessWeek was wrong. A representative from Nissan contacted us 56,000 is not the number of pre-orders, but rather the number of people who have signed up on their website for more information about the LEAF once it is released. Incidentally, that number is now 71,000, and while it is a good sign for Nissan, it means a lot less for the future commercial success of the LEAF than actual pre-orders would. And That's Just for the United States... Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of Nissan and Renault, isn't the kind of guy who just dips his ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Image credit: Grist The name "junk food" alone tells us that our bag of chips, corn syrup-laden cookie, and giant soda are not the best food choices. Still, people reach for those foods everyday. But what if junk food was taxed? Would that change people's behavior? Or maybe subsidies that made healthy food cheaper would be more effective? Recently, psychologists have attempted to use science to answer these questions....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Hybrid Porsche. Photo via Carmaker If you were, say, a cave dweller, or this guy, and you were let loose in the Geneva Motor Show, you'd likely make some pretty interesting (and incorrect) inferences about the current state of the car world. You'd think that about one in four people drove a hybrid, that tiny electric cars are more popular than SUVs, that heavy trucks were all but thing of the past, and that Justin Timberlake hung out with German auto execs. Su...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Radiator fluid is something that everyone who drives needs, but very few people actually understand how it works.

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