World Jun 29 Views of the Colorado Wildfire The Denver Post has been covering the fires since they first began. Here are some of their shots of the flames and the Coloradans who have been affected.
Science Jun 27 Tsunami Dock Carries Invaders to Oregon Remnants of the 2011 Japan tsunami have started to arrive on the western shores of North America, posing new challenges to beach clean up, like a 165-ton industrial pier that made its way to Agate Beach in Oregon.
Science May 31 Louisiana Islander: Water Is ‘Closing in on Us’ // On Friday, the NewsHour will report on how subsidence, rising seas and storms have battered coastal Louisiana's Isle de Jean Charles, an island that has been home to Native tribes since the 1800s. As a preview to the…
Science May 30 Why Louisiana Is Sinking // On the NewsHour this week, we will be covering how rising sea levels are threatening people who live on the fragile Louisiana Delta. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with Torbjörn Törnqvist, a coastal geoscientist at Tulane University who studies the…
Science May 24 Farmers, How Have You Been Affected by Climate Change? Farmers, how have changes in your local climate affected your agricultural business? Bill Couser inspects one of the first fields he planted with corn in mid-April on his farm near Nevada, Iowa. (Sarah McCammon for Harvest Public Media) The U.S.
Science May 03 Are You Smarter Than a 10th Grader on Climate Change? Think you understand climate science better than the average American teen? On the PBS NewsHour this week we've been focusing on how climate change is taught in the classroom. But you can test your knowledge with this climate quiz:…
Science Apr 23 Geoscientist Bungee Jumps to Imitate Shifting Climate // Richard Alley has taken an extreme leap -- off a really high bridge -- to demonstrate how drastically the Earth's climate is shifting. In one of two installments of the PBS series "Earth: The Operators' Manual,"…
Science Apr 18 Space Tornadoes, Baby Stars, and Ancient Galaxies After a thousand days in space, the Infrared Array Camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope has sent back thousands of images of stars being born, space "tornadoes" and galaxies at the edge of the universe. To commemorate its voyage, the…
Science Apr 11 Citizen Scientists Track Rain Drop by Drop *Jim Ridgley checks his rain gauge outside his house in Frederick, Md. Photo by Rebecca Jacobson.* Inside Jim Ridgley's living room in Frederick, Md., the fire station scanner chatters nonstop and the AM radio buzzes with weather reports. A hand-held…
Science Apr 09 Feeling the Heat: March Shattered Temperature Records Across U.S. // A day-by-day animation of the daily temperature records tied or broken in March 2012. Over 15,000 records were broken. This March was the warmest ever in the continental United States, measuring on average a staggering 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit hotter…