Canada is taking charge to help make for a clean energy future by setting goals to be rid of coal and rely on 90 percent clean energy to power the country. Government officials are hoping that the announcement will drive the clean energy industry to the country.

Pictures from NASA's Spirit Rover suggest that ancient life on Mars may have been involved in the building of silica deposits. NASA will be launching another mission in 2020, which can interrogate the evidence and determine if microbial life exists (or existed before) on the Red Planet.

Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein has successfully petitioned for a vote recount in Wisconsin, and is expected to push further challenges in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Stein has raised 

Many of the macro trends playing out now have been decades in the making, like the uncoupling of productivity and higher wages. Since the 1970s, we saw productivity climb,