May 01 Conflict of Lease and Legacy Provokes Controversy on the Half Shell Harvesting oysters at Drakes Bay Oyster Co. in the Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco. Photo by Spencer Michels. "O Oysters, come and walk with us!" -- Lewis Carroll Not since Lewis Carroll wrote "The Walrus… Continue reading
Apr 22 Seattle’s Bullitt Center Bills Itself as ‘World’s Greenest Office Building’ Seattle's Bullitt Center bills itself as the world's greenest office building for its local and sustainable materials. Video courtesy of KCTS9/Earthfix Before skyscrapers, Seattle's waterfront held little more than tide flats edged with evergreen forests. Those forests ran off the… Continue reading
Apr 18 Texas Plant Blast Kills Up to 15, Injures Hundreds EmbedVideo(6243, 482, 304); Local roofer Tony LeNoir explains how he's helping the small Texas town of West recover after a fertilizer plant exploded Wednesday evening. A massive explosion tore through the West Fertilizer Co. plant in the town… Continue reading
Apr 10 Portals to the Past: Cloning the Original Cherry Blossoms More than 1 million visitors flock to Washington, D.C. each spring to view the cherry trees. Photo by Rebecca Jacobson. Every spring in Washington, D.C., the tree paparazzi come out. As the 3,700 ornamental cherry trees along the National… Continue reading
Apr 03 Watch After Oil Spill in Arkansas, Weighing Risks of Keystone Pipeline Extension After Oil Spill in Arkansas, Weighing Risks of Keystone Pipeline Extension… Continue watching
Mar 29 Watch EPA Advances New Proposal for Cleaner Gas Emissions Obama Administration Makes Run For Cleaner Gas… Continue watching
Mar 26 ‘The World Needs You, Badly,’ Edward O. Wilson Tells Young Scientists Biologist Edward O. Wilson studies fire ants at Harvard University on Sept. 8, 1975. Photo by Hugh Patrick Brown/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Edward O. Wilson's "Letters to a Young Scientist" arrived in the mail this week. Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch Decision Delayed on Dangerous Chemical Found in Drinking Water Decision Delayed on Dangerous Chemical Found in Drinking Water… Continue watching
Mar 14 Watch Scientists Search for Solution to ‘Toxic Cocktail’ in Washington’s Puget Sound Seattleites Construct Rain Gardens to Curb Pollution From Stormwater Runoff… Continue watching
Mar 13 Watch Protecting Americans From Danger in the Drinking Water In part one of a two-part series Miles O’Brien travels to Hinkley, Calif., the town featured in the movie Erin Brockovich, for its multi-million battle over contaminated groundwater. O'Brien reports on the investigation into the chemical Chromium-6, the agency that… Continue watching