Sep 05 Lee Downgraded to Tropical Depression, 2 Die in Texas Fire A man paddles a canoe through flood waters in Lafitte, La. Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images. After sweeping through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama Sunday morning, causing flooding in low-lying areas and leaving thousands without power, a weakened storm is… Continue reading
Sep 02 Obama Drops Proposed Clean Air Rules President Obama has reversed course on proposed smog standards, a victory for business interests that had decried the smog restrictions on the grounds that they should be postponed -- until at least 2013 -- due to the recession. The… Continue reading
Sep 01 iPods, Androids Could Be Cancer-Detection Tools iPods charging. Photo by Flickr user Stephen Hackett. Cancer screening...is there an app for that? Not quite, but a newly developed device run by an iPod Touch, iPad or Android tablet could help diagnose cancers in poor or rural… Continue reading
Sep 01 Watch If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT is the remarkable story of the group’s rise and fall, told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. Continue watching
Sep 01 Watch Arsonists or Terrorists? Film Details Rise, Fall of Earth Liberation Front Cell Film Chronicles Rise and Fall of Eco-Terrorist Cell… Continue watching
Sep 01 Film Chronicles Rise and Fall of Eco-Terrorist Cell Through The Eyes of a Former Member Photo by T. J. Watt On Thursday's NewsHour, we will feature an excerpt of the film "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front," which looks at the radical environmental group through the transformation of… Continue reading
Aug 30 Augmented Reality Expands Borders of Tech Landscape This laser projection system is a form of augmented reality. Different symbols can be projected to show workers what to do, such as trim the chicken before packaging. Photo by Georgia Tech Research Institute. In the Harry… Continue reading
Aug 29 Watch Tar Sands Pipeline Plan Renews Energy vs. Environment Debate A proposed pipeline would carry oil from Canadian tar sands fields to Texas refineries, but the project has sparked high-profile protests. Jeffrey Brown discusses the controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research's Robert Bryce and… Continue watching
Aug 29 Proposed Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Elicits Protests Demonstrators sit down in front of the White House while protesting against a proposed pipeline that would bring tar sands oil to the U.S. from Canada on August 22, 2011. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. The proposed Keystone XL… Continue reading
Aug 29 Earthquakes to the Core A team of scientists are drilling a mile and a half under the Earth and retrieving and studying rock samples that exist in fault zones in order to better understand the mechanics of earthquakes. By doing so,… Continue reading