Apr 12 Risky Business in the Pacific Northwest EmbedVideo(3149, 482, 304); On Thursday's PBS NewsHour, Tom Bearden reports on efforts to better understand a phenomenon called liquefaction. When a powerful earthquake shakes a region, sandy soils can turn to liquid and lose their ability to… Continue reading
Apr 12 Six Feet Under Can Be Green for Eternity By Frank Carlson EmbedVideo(3133, 482, 304); In 1998, Dr. Billy Campbell, a family practitioner in Westminster, South Carolina, opened a land preserve founded on a unique model: enlisting death in the fight for ecological conservation. Calling it the Ramsey… Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch "Dying Green" Explores Conservation Through Natural Burial A new documentary explores green burial - and how it can be used to conserve land. Continue watching
Apr 11 Citizen Scientists Track Rain Drop by Drop By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy *Jim Ridgley checks his rain gauge outside his house in Frederick, Md. Photo by Rebecca Jacobson.* Inside Jim Ridgley's living room in Frederick, Md., the fire station scanner chatters nonstop and the AM radio buzzes with weather reports. A hand-held… Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch Introduction to CoCoRaHS A brief introduction to Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network, a grassroots volunteer organization that measures and track precipitation. Continue watching
Apr 09 Watch March Shattered Temperature Records Across U.S. A day-by-day animation of the daily temperature records tied or broken in March 2012. Continue watching
Apr 09 Feeling the Heat: March Shattered Temperature Records Across U.S. By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy // A day-by-day animation of the daily temperature records tied or broken in March 2012. Over 15,000 records were broken. This March was the warmest ever in the continental United States, measuring on average a staggering 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit hotter… Continue reading
Apr 09 Electric Knifefish Charged With Sixth Sense Electric eels generate enough voltage to stun their prey, but they're not the only electric creature in the water. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University believe that the so-called weakly electric knifefish uses its electric field as a sixth sense… Continue reading
Apr 05 Slime Molds: No Brains, No Feet, No Problem In a study released last week, computer scientist Selim Akl of Queens University demonstrated that slime mold is fantastically efficient at finding the quickest route to food. When he placed rolled oats over the country's population centers and… Continue reading
Apr 04 Watch 'Solar Suitcase' Sheds Light on Darkened Delivery Rooms After witnessing the consequences of power outages in Nigeria's health facilities, obstetrician Dr. Laura Stachel came up with a solution: a suitcase containing elements to produce and store solar energy. Spencer Michels reports on the life-saving device that aims to… Continue watching