Dec 05 The Internet Takeover That Never Was Delegates to the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications gathered for an opening press conference Dec. 3, 2012. Photo by the International Telecommunications Union. This week and next, representatives from the world's 193 nations are gathered in Dubai… Continue reading
Dec 05 Swarming Lights and Tadpole Trains Bring Public Transit to Life This week, a co-worker introduced me to a series of time-lapse animations that visualize a 24-hour stretch of public transit in various cities. Here's New York, which resembles a frenzied swarm of LED ants, or as Mashable describes… Continue reading
Dec 05 Watch Florida's Coral Reefs Face Altered Oceans For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/climate-change/… Continue watching
Dec 04 How Has Climate Change Affected Your Winter Sports? By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy A skier glides down a slope in Austria. Climate change threatens to alter winter weather patterns, which would affect beloved outdoor pastimes. Photo by Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters The winter of 2011 was so unusually warm and dry, it left some ski… Continue reading
Dec 03 Watch World Faces a Fight from Behind to Keep Up With Rising Rate of CO2 Emissions World Faces a Fight from Behind to Keep Up With Rising Rate of CO2 Emissions… Continue watching
Dec 03 Tiny Flying 'Bengal Tigers' invade Brooklyn Common green darner dragonfly. Photo By Encyclopaedia Britannica/UIG Via Getty Images. Once a week, I arrive home to find the New Yorker magazine on the floor, partly shredded by my dog, who devotes part of her lunch… Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch Grand Canyon May Be 60 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought Grand Canyon May Be 60 Million Years Older Than Previously Thought… Continue watching
Nov 30 Lunch in the Lab: Mars Rover Tells Fans to 'Chill' A type of sea slug, called a Spanish Shawl, or Flabellina iodinea. Photo by Kent Treptow. Welcome to Lunch in the Lab, a virtual platter of science news, delivered fresh by the NewsHour every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Continue reading
Nov 29 Harsh Weather, Knee Injuries Didn't Stop Filmmaker from Chasing Glaciers EmbedVideo(5092, 482, 304); After five years spent documenting the behavior of glaciers, photographer James Balog has concluded that the term "glacial pace" is an oxymoron. Once, his teammates saw a chunk of ice roughly the… Continue reading
Nov 29 Watch Harsh Weather, Knee Injuries Doesn't Stop "Chasing Ice" video interview with clips from documentary Chasing Ice… Continue watching