Jul 17 The U.S. as the New Saudi Arabia: An Environmentalist’s Nightmare? A flame from a Saudi Aramco (the national oil company) oil installation known as 'Pump 3' burns brightly during sunset in the Saudi Arabian desert. According to Forbes, Saudi Aramco generates more than $1 billion a day in… Continue reading
Jul 17 The U.S. as the New Saudi Arabia: An Environmentalist’s Nightmare? A flame from a Saudi Aramco (the national oil company) oil installation known as 'Pump 3' burns brightly during sunset in the Saudi Arabian desert. According to Forbes, Saudi Aramco generates more than $1 billion a day in… Continue reading
Jul 17 Watch Swinomish Tribe Deals with Climate Change Swinomish fishing salmon climate change Washington… Continue watching
Jul 16 Coping with Climate Change: Washington’s Tribes By Saskia de Melker Washington's Quileute tribe, thrust into the spotlight by the "Twilight" series,' has been struggling to reclaim land threatened by floods and sea level rise. Together with KCTS9 and EarthFix, NewsHour visited the tribe to hear their story. Continue reading
Jul 16 Climate Change Threatens The Tribe From ‘Twilight’ Washington's Quileute tribe, thrust into the spotlight by the "Twilight" series,' has been in a struggle to reclaim land threatened by floods and sea level rise. Together with KCTS9 and EarthFix, NewsHour visited the tribe to hear their story. Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch In Austin, Charged up About Smart Power Miles O'Brien examines power grid reliability in a neighborhood near Austin, Texas that uses "smart grid" technology to track - and control - its energy consumption. Continue watching
Jul 13 The View from the Volt: Miles Risks Safety While Talking Smart Power EmbedVideo(3888, 482, 304); Last week, a powerful "derecho" storm hammered the mid-Atlantic region, snuffing out power during the peak of a sweltering heat wave for nearly a week in some homes. Days later, our science correspondent Miles… Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch Miles O’Brien Risks Safety While Talking Smart Power Miles briefs Hari on a cutting-edge, smart-power project in Austin… Continue watching
Jul 13 Watch How ‘Twilight’ Stardom Helped the Quileute’s Land Struggle For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/climate-change/… Continue watching
Jul 12 Oregon Cave Yields New Clues to Earliest Americans University of Oregon archaeologist Dennis Jenkins holds three ancient tools known as Western Stemmed projectiles from the Paisley Caves in Oregon. Photo by Jim Barlow. It was long thought that the Clovis people were the first North American human… Continue reading