Apr 23 5 key things we learned about oil spills from the Gulf Coast disaster By David Valentine The Deepwater Horizon event was a national tragedy: 11 workers killed in a blowout, an ecosystem inundated with oil and the livelihoods of many in the Gulf states disrupted. In a response effort of unparalleled scale, a diverse group of… Continue reading
Apr 22 43 dinosaur eggs discovered at construction site in China By Colleen Shalby On Sunday, 43 fossilized dinosaur eggs were discovered in the city of Heyuan, located in the Guandong province of China. Continue reading
Apr 21 25 years of the Hubble telescope in 25 stunning photos By Jasmine Wright, Margaret Myers The world’s first space telescope celebrates a quarter century this week. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery 25 years ago Friday, on April 24, 1990. Continue reading
Apr 18 Last month was the hottest March since record keeping began By Triana Kalmanoff Last month the average global temperature was the highest recorded for March since record keeping began in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday. Continue reading
Apr 18 Obama plans Everglades trip to highlight cost of climate change By Associated Press President Obama says he'll visit the Everglades on Wednesday to talk about how global warming threatens the U.S. economy. Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch 1:49 Has Hawaii's solar energy industry become too popular? Viewers weigh in. By PBS News Hour Hari Sreenivasan reads viewer comments about a recent signature segment concerning Hawaii’s booming solar energy industry. Continue watching
Apr 18 Watch 9:05 These teens are suing Oregon to force action on climate change By PBS News Hour Frustrated by the slow pace of progress on climate change policy, an Oregon-based environmental group is using a novel legal strategy called "atmospheric trust litigation" to try to force governments to take action. And the movement is being led those… Continue watching
Apr 15 Are some people wired to fall for placebos? By Nsikan Akpan Some people are born believers. Fake surgeries have been shown to relieve traumatic knee pain; "dummy pills" have wiped away migraines. A new report from Harvard University describes how certain genes predispose people toward believing placebos, or experiencing… Continue reading
Apr 14 Watch 4:57 Mapping dark matter may help solve a cosmic mystery By PBS News Hour We can't see dark matter, but scientists have made the largest map yet of the invisible material that helps make up the universe. Researchers used a dark energy camera and a large telescope to create a color-coded chart of just… Continue watching
Apr 14 Watch 6:49 How drinking water pipes can also deliver electric power By PBS News Hour Hydroelectricity -- using the flow of water to generate power -- has long been a small but key source of renewable energy. How can cities around the country better harness that potential? A startup in Portland, Oregon, has developed a… Continue watching