Aug 24 Watch Reports of Iran's Nuclear Progress Aggravate Tensions Between Tehran and West Reports of Iran's Nuclear Progress Aggravate Tensions Between Tehran and West… Continue watching
Aug 24 Timeline: The Summer of Wild Weather An Indian villager watches fast-moving water during a flash flood on the outskirts of Jammu. Photo by STRDEL/AFP/GettyImages Severe weather events have devastated much of the world in recent months. Flash floods and unrelenting wildfires battered Eurasia as crops in… Continue reading
Aug 24 National Geographic's Peter Miller on Weather Gone Wild By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy [ DUE TO RIGHTS RESTRICTIONS, VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE ] National Geographic magazine's September issue looks at the impact of steadily warming temperatures and changing weather patterns on severe storms, droughts, forest fires and other extreme weather… Continue reading
Aug 23 Throngs of Dangerous Jellyfish Stings Caused 'Intense, Ripping Pain' for Nyad This photo shows three of the jellyfish that Nyad encountered during her swim. To the left is a carybdeid cubozoan, a type of box jellyfish. And to the right, almost out of frame, are two olindias. Photo by… Continue reading
Aug 23 Diana Nyad: A Swimmer Battles the Elements By Jenny Marder During her 42-hour attempted swim from Cuba to Key West this week, Diana Nyad battled extreme exhaustion, severe sunburn, strained muscles, powerful storms and circling sharks. But the thing that really ground the 103-mile trek to a halt, she said,… Continue reading
Aug 22 Rain or Shine, Climate Change Pushes Farmers to the Brink By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Mother Nature has been unkind to farmers this year. Last week, the NewsHour talked to cherry farmers in Michigan who lost 90 percent of their crops when an early spring warm-up meant trees were battered by frosts after blooming… Continue reading
Aug 22 Ray Bradbury on Mars, and Curiosity Completes Tiny Test Drive This 360-degree panorama shows evidence in the tire tracks of a successful first test drive for NASA's Mars Curiosity rover. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech. On Wednesday, the Mars rover Curiosity embarked on its first small journey. It plowed… Continue reading
Aug 22 Watch News Wrap: Cases of West Nile Virus Reach Decade High In other news Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control reported three times more cases of West Nile virus so far this year, blaming weather conditions that fostered optimal breeding conditions for mosquitoes. Also, a new study reveals that older fathers… Continue watching
Aug 21 Watch Jonathan Foley on Farming and Climate Change video interview with b-roll… Continue watching
Aug 21 Watch Tech Stock Ebb and Flow: Apple Dominates Wall Street While Facebook Flails Tech Stock Ebb and Flow: Apple Dominates Wall Street While Facebook Flails… Continue watching