Sep 17 In Alaska, Melting Ice Could Erode Way of Life Temperatures in the Arctic are warming twice as fast as any other place on the planet. PBS NewsHour recently traveled there to report on how Alaska Natives are coping with the cascading effects of climate change on their subsistence lifestyle. Continue reading
Sep 17 Life at the 'Top of the World' By Mike Fritz At 330 miles above the Arctic Circle, life has never been easy for those brave enough to call Barrow home. The population currently hovers around 5,000 and about half of the residents are native Inupiat Eskimo, indigenous people who have… Continue reading
Sep 17 ASK #seachange reporter Craig Welch anything at noon .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } On Monday, PBS NewsHour aired… Continue reading
Sep 17 Russia's Cold War navy has been revived to patrol the melting arctic By News Desk Russia's nuclear powered battle cruiser "Peter the Great" Russia is moving ships to the arctic and rebuilding a naval base in Siberia to begin regular, permanent patrols of the newly open Northern Sea Route, reports the Christian Science Monitor. Continue reading
Sep 16 Watch Alaska's Resilient Crabs Not Immune to Effects of Rapidly Acidifying Waters Alaska's Resilient Crabs Not Immune to Effects of Rapidly Acidifying Waters… Continue watching
Sep 15 FDR's Green Dream: The Quoddy Dam Project By Kristin Miller In 1935 construction started on a massive New Deal project proposed by FDR in Passamaquoddy Bay. The Quoddy Dam Project would have stored the rising tide behind multiple dams and then slowly released the water through turbines, producing electricity. But… Continue reading
Sep 15 Watch Can a Small Maine Town's Innovation Turn the Tides on Sustainable Energy? One of the big obstacles to clean energy is that most renewable sources are unreliable. A Maine company has installed the nation’s first commercial, grid connected tidal energy project. Water power is estimated to nearly double by 2030 and provide… Continue watching
Sep 14 Famed "Feynman Lectures" now available online From the Atlantic Wire today, physics students everywhere can now breathe a sigh of relief because the famed "Feynman Lectures" are now in HTML. Continue reading
Sep 14 A Clockwork Insect: Garden bug sports mechanical gears Many mechanical devices have been inspired by examples in nature, but it's not often that nature replicates something only known to be made by human beings. Meet Issus coeleoptratus, more commonly referred to as a "planthopper". Photo… Continue reading
Sep 14 Hawaii spill reminder of 1919 "Boston Molasses Disaster" (Source: Boston Public Library) The news is full of images of the 230,000 gallons-molasses spill endangering marine life in Hawaii. But this isn't the first time a flood of the sticky substance has caused havoc in the… Continue reading