Jan 04 Smoking Out the Vultures A few hours before sundown, the vultures arrive by the dozens to roost in Jessica Paulin's backyard. They swoop in, choose the perfect evergreen branch, and with one or two flaps of their massive wings, settle in for the… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch Crumbling Pipes and Underground Waste: A Glimpse at Our Ailing Sewer System A Journey to America's Smelly Depths to Confront Our Aging Water Systems… Continue watching
Jan 03 Into Pungent Water Science correspondent Miles O'Brien plunged into a muck of that which rhymes with "it" to investigate our ailing sewage system. Here's his story of what happened underground. Don't miss his full report on tonight's NewsHour. Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch Underground: A Hidden World of Water Pipes Miles interviews Chuck Hersey of SEMCOG. Continue watching
Jan 02 Watch Taking Infrastructure for Granted Miles interviews Greg DiLoreto on the country's sewage infrastructure. Continue watching
Jan 01 Is the Amazon Rainforest Drying Out? A river rises in the Andes and flows east to the Amazon, Ucayali River in Peru. Photo by Bates Littlehales/National Geographic/Getty Images TARAPOTO, Peru -- For tropical ecologist Gregory Asner, flying over the Peruvian Amazon from the town… Continue reading
Dec 27 Watch As EPA Chief Steps Down, an Evaluation of Obama’s Environmental Policy So Far As EPA Chief Steps Down, an Evaluation of Obama's Environmental Policy So Far… Continue watching
Dec 27 Miles O’Brien: Crawling in Sewage, Sleeping With Dolphins in 2012 EmbedVideo(5319, 482, 304); Over the past year, Miles O'Brien has jogged, drank and slept on the job. He's suited up, strapped in and goofed off. He swam with dolphins to study sleep, played ball with chimps, tracked radiation… Continue reading
Dec 27 Watch Best of Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien Watch the video for some highlights of the year from our fearless science correspondent. Continue watching
Dec 26 Commentary: A Tech To-Do List for Washington in 2013 Rob Pegoraro tries to make sense of computers, consumer electronics, telecom services, the Internet, software and other things that beep or blink through reporting, reviewing and analysis -- from 1999 to 2011 as the Washington Post's tech columnist, now… Continue reading