Jan 03 Watch Goldman Sachs, Digital Sky ‘Friend’ Facebook With Big Investment Facebook Finds New Friends in Investment Companies… Continue watching
Dec 31 Watch Environmental Questions Persist in Post-Spill Gulf Ray Suarez revisits one of the biggest stories of the year - the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Months after the well was sealed, questions remain about exactly how much damage the massive spill has done to the… Continue watching
Dec 31 Watch Scientists Study Gulf Fish for Signs of Oil Damage NewsHour Correspondent Tom Bearden talks to researchers who are assessing the long-term damage to the Gulf. In Alabama, scientists are examining whether damage done to fish larvae is linked to the oil spill. Continue watching
Dec 31 Watch Challenging Cleanup Ahead for Gulf Coast Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, talks to Ray Suarez about the administration's efforts to address the environmental damage in the Gulf of Mexico. Continue watching
Dec 28 ‘Secrets Beneath the Ice’ Goes Back in Time to Predict the Future DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s4682qff1', '2LFTFQ5hRrQ', '29'); Editor's note: In one portion of the footage, the Larsen Ice Shelf is misspelled. In late January 2002, the Larsen Ice Shelf, a piece of ice approximately the size of Manhattan, began breaking up. Continue reading
Dec 27 Watch Should the Government Control Who Tracks You Online? The Federal Trade Commission earlier this month proposed the creation of a so-called do-not-track option for Web users. Ray Suarez speaks with FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz and Mike Zaneis, general counsel of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, about the state of… Continue watching
Dec 27 What We’re Reading: Climate Science, Exoplanets and TB Sniffing Rats A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning A profile of Charles David Keeling, who created the first instruments to accurately measure carbon dioxide in the air and collected samples from the remote top of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano. Continue reading
Dec 27 Delete Older Facebook Apps — or Risk Everyone’s Privacy If you have a Facebook page, you've probably added quite a few apps. If you've linked your YouTube account, New York Times account, or just about any mobile app to your Facebook profile, you've also installed their app -- and… Continue reading
Dec 24 The Business of Greenery Smuggling in Washington State By News Desk It's a familiar sight this time of year; the live Christmas wreath on a door or a bit of holiday-themed greenery on a table. Those products are a big business in the Pacific Northwest, where forests are harvested for greenery,… Continue reading
Dec 23 FCC’s Net Neutrality Order Released Two days ago, a divided Federal Communications Commission adopted rules enforcing network neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally, regardless of origin. When the commission voted, it did so without releasing the actual rules publicly,… Continue reading