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
Nov 28 Einstein's Brain, Storms on Saturn and Bigfoot DNA A picture and model of Albert Einstein's brain was on display during a preview of a March 2012 exhibition in London called "Brains: mind of matter." Photo by Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images. Five years ago, while reviewing a paper that… Continue reading
Nov 26 Climate Summit Begins in Doha; Fiscal Cliff Could Mean Cuts to Science The opening ceremony of the United Nations climate conference in Doha was held on Monday, launching the talks. Photo by Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images. World leaders, climate scientists and activists are converging in oil-rich Qatar this week for the United… Continue reading
Nov 26 Watch Quileute 'Twilight' Tribe Deals With Rising Sea Levels That Threaten Way of Life Located west of Olympic National Park, La Push, Wash., is idyllic at first glance. But the beauty of the place is matched by danger and vulnerability. Located at sea level, La Push lies directly in a flood and tsunami zone. Continue watching