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
Jul 23 Scaling Up: Vietnamese Fish Farms Search for Eco-Friendly Formula Until recently, only a tiny fraction of the world's food fish came from farms. Today roughly half of it does, and demand is expected to double by In a world hungry for protein, aquaculture is the ultimate growth… Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch California Activists Want Smart Meters Banned, Claim They’re Bad for Health California Activists Want Smart Meters Banned, Claim They're Bad for Health… Continue watching
Jul 20 Environmental Stand-up Economist: ‘We’re Going to Find Out How Bad Climate Change Really Is’ EmbedVideo(3942, 482, 304); Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman spent five months in China recently, studying climate change at a university and sending occasional video dispatches to us at Making Sen$e. I myself spent some time in… Continue reading
Jul 20 How Smart Are Smart Meters? For the past few years, activists of various stripes -- environmentalists, liberals, some tea party folks, and others -- have been protesting the installation of smart meters in Northern California and elsewhere. The meters send a wireless radio signal to… Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch Native American Communities Affected by Climate Change Plan for the Future Native American Communities Affected by Climate Change Plan for the Future… Continue watching