Aug 31 Review Puts U.N. Climate Panel on the Hot Seat By Jenny Marder A management overhaul, more transparency, more alternative views and a stronger communications policy. These are among the recommendations that the InterAcademy Council (IAC,) a multi-national group of science academies, has urged for the U.N. Climate Panel, the international body… Continue reading
Aug 30 In Louisiana, Wetlands Erosion is a Slow-Moving Crisis By Betty Ann Bowser A worker lays boom beside a fragile Louisiana wetland area early in the Gulf oil disaster on April 29. Photo by Erica Berenstein/AFP/Getty Images City fathers love to talk about the numbers: 78 percent of the population of New Orleans… Continue reading
Aug 27 Conversation: Nicholas Carr's 'The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains' By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Nicholas Carr, author of "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains," which looks through the lens of neuroscience to see how the Internet shapes our brains. Continue reading
Aug 26 Will New Levees Protect New Orleans From the Next Hurricane? New floodgates at the 17th Street Canal (Photo by Betty Ann Bowser) On a steamy morning June 2006, less than a year after Hurricane Katrina, I sat in a packed ballroom at a hotel in downtown New Orleans to… Continue reading
Aug 26 An Updated Oil Widget By Chris Amico This widget is the latest version of what has long been the PBS NewsHour's SpillCam. For much of the time the Macando well was gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, we streamed live video to millions of viewers… Continue reading
Aug 26 Louisiana to get $15 Million for Mental Health Services Tonight on the NewsHour, health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser will look at the mental health toll that the "double whammy" of Hurricane Katrina, followed by the oil spill, has taken on residents of Louisiana. Recently, BP announced that it… Continue reading
Aug 26 At Louisiana Forum, Questions on Oil Spill's Long-Term Impact By Tom Bearden So many questions, so few definitive answers. Last Saturday, I participated in the taping of a television program called "Louisiana Public Square." It's part of a monthly public affairs series that airs on the six non-commercial television stations that… Continue reading
Aug 25 'Rational Optimist' Matt Ridley Answers Your Questions on Economy, Science By Paul Solman Editor's Note: Last week, Paul Solman talked to "rational optimist" Matt Ridley about why he believes that life on earth for humans is getting better and better. _pap_embed_custom('news01n4276qf42',482,304,""); Ridley agreed to answer some of your questions -- his… Continue reading
Aug 24 Watch Judge's Stem Cell Research Stoppage Debated A federal judge issued a ruling to halt human embryonic stem cell research and "preserve the status quo" from before President Obama expanded research guidelines. Judy Woodruff gets perspectives from Dr. Evan Snyder of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and… Continue watching
Aug 24 Study: Oil-Eating Microbes Plentiful in Gulf Oil Spill Oil-eating bacteria proliferated below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico this summer, helping to break down and clean up an underwater oil plume that stretched miles from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, according to a study released Tuesday by… Continue reading