Sep 20 Watch Arctic’s Record-Breaking Ice Melt September 2012 saw the greatest loss of sea ice since satellites began taking data in 1979. The total area of sea ice now measures 1.52 million square miles. The historical average is 7 million square miles for this time of… Continue watching
Sep 18 Climate Change From Different Perspectives By Spencer Michels Anything dealing with climate change is bound to provoke an argument. And our story on Berkeley physicist Richard Muller's recent conversion to a believer in man-made global warming, which he made in an op-ed in the New York Times, certainly… Continue reading
Sep 18 Watch Richard and Elizabeth Muller Comment on Climate Change Richard and Elizabeth Muller Comment on Climate Change… Continue watching
Sep 18 Keeping Climate Stories in Context By Hari Sreenivasan Update: 3 p.m. ET | If the amount of personal email that hit my inbox last night or the comment thread on Spencer Michel's blog post featuring Anthony Watts is any indication, many of you care in some way, shape,… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch Climate Change Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming Climate Change Skeptic No Longer Doubts Human Role in Global Warming… Continue watching
Sep 17 It’s a Cub! National Zoo Celebrates Panda’s Birth EmbedVideo(4474, 482, 304); Mei Xiang, the 14-year-old giant panda at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, gave birth to her second cub on Sept 16. The cub does not yet have a name and will not be on display for… Continue reading
Sep 17 Climate Change Skeptic Says Global Warming Crowd Oversells Its Message By Spencer Michels // It was about 105 degrees in Chico, Calif., about three hours north of Sacramento, when we arrived at the offices of one of the nation's most read climate skeptics. Actually, Anthony Watts calls himself a pragmatic skeptic when… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch Giant Panda at Smithsonian National Zoo Gives Birth video from the national zoo panda cam of the Mei Xiang giving birth to a cub at 10:46 pm ET Sunday Sept 16. Continue watching
Sep 17 From Battlefield to Operating Room: Augmented Reality Gets Practical Augmented reality: technology that superimposes computer-generated virtual objects onto our view of the real world. In the National Science Foundation's* latest Science Nation piece, NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on a team of scientists at Mississippi State University… Continue reading