Sep 17 Poop knives, arachnophobic entomologists win 2020 Ig Nobel awards By Mark Pratt, Associated Press This year's winners also included a collection of world leaders who think they're smarter than doctors and scientists, and a team of Dutch and Belgian researchers who looked at why chewing and other sounds people make drive us crazy. Continue reading
Sep 15 Scientific American favors Biden in first-ever presidential endorsement By David Bauder, Associated Press The magazine said that “the evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has basically damaged the United States and its people because he rejects evidence and science.”… Continue reading
Sep 15 World isn't meeting biodiversity goals, U.N. report finds By Christina Larson, Seth Borenstein, Associated Press A new U.N. biodiversity report card highlights the decline over the past 10 years in fragile ecosystems such as coral reefs and tropical forests. Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch 3:53 Western wildfires highlight divergent stances of Trump, Biden on climate change By Lisa Desjardins The wildfire disaster in the American West is highlighting a major political difference between President Trump and Joe Biden: their perspectives on climate change. While scientists increasingly warn that climate change is driving extreme weather events like the western fires… Continue watching
Sep 14 Watch 7:10 How climate change 'exacerbates' wildfires in the American West As large parts of California and the Pacific Northwest are beset by wildfires, the issue of climate change has taken on prominence in the national political conversation. Scientists increasingly point to rising temperatures and extreme dryness as exacerbating wildfires, but… Continue watching
Sep 14 Automaker Daimler AG to pay $1.5 billion to settle emissions cheating probes By Michael Balsamo, Tom Krisher, Associated Press Officials say Daimler violated environmental laws by using so-called "defeat device software" to circumvent emissions testing and sold about 250,000 cars and vans in the U.S. with diesel engines that didn't comply with state and federal laws. Continue reading
Sep 14 California's catastrophic wildfires in 3 charts By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas Extreme weather events, climate change and human error have combined to cause California's most destructive fire season on record. Continue reading
Sep 14 Venus might host life, new discovery suggests By Adam Mann, Scientific American The unexpected atmospheric detection of phosphine, a smelly gas made by microbes on Earth, could spark a revolution in astrobiology… Continue reading
Sep 13 Watch 8:46 How 'upcycling' discarded ingredients into food is gaining momentum By Allison Aubrey, NPR “Upcycling,” a new technique of making food using discarded ingredients, is gaining momentum with entrepreneurs looking to create new food categories. Special Correspondent Allison Aubrey and Producer Mary Beth Durkin report on this growing food movement as part of NewsHours… Continue watching
Sep 13 Death toll from wildfires reaches 33 on the West Coast By Lindsay Whitehurst, Andrew Selsky, Associated Press Nearly all of the dozens of people reported missing after a devastating blaze in southern Oregon have been accounted for, authorities said, as crews continued to battle wildfires that have killed at least 33 victims from California to Washington state. Continue reading