Jul 26 Watch An Old Fashioned Strategy to Keep Asian Carp at Bay in the Great Lakes: Eat Them An Old Fashioned Strategy to Keep Asian Carp at Bay in the Great Lakes: Eat Them… Continue watching
Jul 26 USDA: Severe Drought Will Drive Up Cost of Food The drought gripping the Midwest is affecting 88 percent of the country's corn crop and will send food prices up next year, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch Greenland Goes Green: Ice Sheet Melted in Four Days On July 8, NASA satellite imagery showed about 40 percent of Greenland's top ice layer intact. By July 12, only four days later, 97 percent of the ice had melted. Margaret Warner asks NASA's Thomas Wagner for scientific explanation of… Continue watching
Jul 25 Sudden, Rare Ice Melt in Greenland. What Caused it? By Jenny Marder In a four-day period this July, the Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate than satellite data has ever recorded and at higher elevations than we've seen in our lifetimes. So what caused this extraordinary melt? Since May,… Continue reading
Jul 24 Watch Sally Ride, 61, Left Major Imprint on Space Program, Inspired Young Scientists Sally Ride, 61, Left Major Imprint on Space Program, Inspired Young Scientists… Continue watching
Jul 24 Big Fish: Vietnam’s Fish Farmers Scale Up for Global Distribution By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy As the world looks to feed a growing population, fish are seen as one solution. But fish farms have a long history of disease, pollution and interfering with the surrounding ecosystem. Marketplace reporter Sam Eaton traveled to Vietnam to look… Continue reading
Jul 24 Ride, Sally Ride: My Dinner with the First American Woman in Space Pictured at the opening of the Challenger Learning Center in Atlanta on January 28, 2003: Cheryl McNair, June Scobee Rodgers, Sally Ride and Miles O'Brien. Photo by Ted Pio-roda/CNN. On January 28, 2003, I was sitting on top… Continue reading
Jul 24 From the Vault: Roger Mudd’s 1987 Report on Sally Ride EmbedVideo(3971, 482, 304); In 1987, Sally Ride retired from NASA to take a job a Stanford University, leaving America's space program "without a real hero" and "struggling to stay in orbit." That's according to a historic… Continue reading
Jul 24 Watch Sally Ride in 1983: Chose Flowers Over Handshakes, Left at O Historic NewsHour video of Sally Ride's departure from NASA. Continue watching
Jul 23 Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space, Dies at 61 Sally Ride monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the flight deck of the Challenger shuttle on June 25, 1983. Floating in front of her is a flight procedures notebook. Photo by Apic/Getty Images. Sally Ride, the first… Continue reading