Jul 07 Watch High Oil Costs May Advance Conservation Research Car owners have been wincing in recent months as the price of oil has shot up well over the once-unimaginable $100-per-barrel mark. But an economist at Carnegie Mellon University believes that skyrocketing oil prices are a good thing, and will… Continue watching
Jul 04 Watch Calif. Locked in Water Wars as Drought Worsens As California faces one of the worst droughts in decades, Spencer Michels examines the growing struggle over water rights in the state. Continue watching
Jul 01 Study: HIV Mortality Rates Continue to Drop as Treatments Improve By PBS News Hour More than a decade after antiretroviral treatments for HIV first debuted, HIV mortality rates have declined dramatically and they continue to drop in countries where patients have access to the drugs. Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch Ore. Discovery Challenges Beliefs About First Humans Until recently, most scientists believed that the first humans came to the Americas 13,000 years ago. But new archaeological findings from a cave in Oregon are challenging that assumption. Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Television reports on the controversial discovery. Continue watching
Jun 27 In Warming World, Plants Seek Higher Ground By Admin, PBS News Hour Rising temperatures are forcing plant species to migrate up mountains in search of a cooler climate, according to a new study of Alpine plants published Thursday in the journal Science. Continue reading
Jun 26 Scientists to Begin Mapping the Cocoa Genome By PBS News Hour Chocolate maker Mars Inc. will fund a five year, $10 million project to map the cocoa bean genome -- work that could lead to hardier, higher-yielding crops and better quality chocolate, the company announced Thursday. Continue reading
Jun 25 Watch Florida Seeks to Expand Everglades from Sugar Farmland Florida agreed to buy almost 300 sq. miles of farmland north of the wetlands from a U.S. Sugar company for $1.75 billion. The tentative deal will expand and restore the Everglades, a key U.S. ecosystem, and relieve the sugar company… Continue watching
Jun 25 Transparent Fish Give Cancer Research a Boost By PBS News Hour Richard White is an oncologist at Children's Hospital Boston and instructor at Harvard Medical School -- but lately, he's also gained fame as an animal breeder. Continue reading
Jun 25 Watch Extended Interview: Mary Nichols, California Air Resources Board Spencer Michels talked to Mary Nichols, head of the California Air Resources Board, in April about the board's recent decision to cut the number of zero-emission vehicles the state will require car manufacturers to build. The board aims to encourage… Continue watching
Jun 25 Watch Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels talked in April to electric car maker Tesla Motors' founder and chairman, Elon Musk -- an entrepreneur who previously founded PayPal -- about the future of the electric car. Continue watching