May 3, 2010 10:49 AM

1.618: The Sustainable Luxury Fair

*That's right – it's sustainable luxury. And it's French.

http://www.1618-paris.com/concept_1618.php?lang=en

*You should see the green guys they hang out with.

*You know what would be really sustainably luxurious right now? A bauble even the world's biggest and most profitable corporations can't buy? A Gulf of Mexico without oil all over it.

Climate Change Has It In for the World’s Best Surfing

As coastlines change, so do surf breaks. That may spell the end for premier waves and the tourist economies that depend on them.

Damian Carrington

Oil Spills Wreak Havoc on the Bottom of the Ocean, Even a Decade Later

While oil is known to float, new research finds that over time it can permeate even extremely deep marine habitats, with animal populations declining by as much as 80 percent.

Bob Berwyn

Spend Elon Musk’s Money

What’s it like to be the richest man in the world? Find out for yourself.

Neal Agarwal

Earth’s Condition Is ‘Serious and Getting Worse’ as Climate Change Intensifies

Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Niño is here to make matters even worse.

Brian Kahn

A New Ice Age Was Beginning. Then Humans Started Burning Fossil Fuels

Ancient plants reveal that the vestiges of the North American ice sheet started expanding a few thousand years ago, but that climate change caused it to reverse course.

Molly Taft

A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat

Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.

Brian Kahn

Egypt’s Climate-Resilient ‘Super Corals’ Are Starting to Feel the Heat

Scientists can’t agree why reefs in the Red Sea have long been immune to bleaching. The answer could be the key to saving these tough corals as climate change begins taking its toll.

Eli Siegel-Bernstein

The Atlantic’s Near-Record Hurricane Drought Is About to End

Tropical Storm Isaias is set to become the basin’s first hurricane of the season, bringing life-threatening rain and storm surge to the Gulf Coast.

Brian Kahn

Heat From Cremations Is Being Used to Warm Homes and Swimming Pools

European countries are leading the way harvesting heat that would otherwise be wasted as green death practices become more common.

Chris Baraniuk

Jaguar Finally Reveals Its Biggest Gamble: the Type 01

Following a viral rebrand and two years without selling a new vehicle, the British marque takes the covers off the most divisive electric car yet seen.

Jeremy White

A New Mexico Community Was a Place to Build a Life. Then a Hypersonic Missile Factory Showed Up

Castelion—a next-generation defense tech company—is building a facility in Rio Rancho Estates that documents show could pose a major fire and chemical hazard to neighboring communities.

Yulia Almazova

Omega Has New Bond Watches Even if There Isn’t a New James Bond

With no new 007 actor named and no film in the near future, Omega has had to get creative to keep its lucrative spy-watch train running.

Jeremy White