Aug 07 Energy Boom in West Creating Jobs and Growth, but Changing Way of Life An electric crude oil pumping unit stands on a hill overlooking Williston, North Dakota. Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images. At a time when it's difficult to find enough industries that are creating new jobs with good wages,… Continue reading
Aug 04 James Hansen: Extreme Heat Events Connected to Climate Change By Hari Sreenivasan James Hansen of NASA, one of the world's most outspoken scientists on the topic of climate change says there is now enough evidence to connect global warming to some of the extreme weather events of the recent past. Hansen tells… Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch California Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests Divert More Water? California Water Wars: Will Thirsty Interests Divert More Water?… Continue watching
Aug 02 The Hidden Costs of Hamburgers On average, Americans eat three hamburgers a week. That's a national total of nearly 50 billion burgers per year. And burgers typically cost only a few dollars from fast food joints. That seems pretty cheap. But what we don't… Continue reading
Aug 02 California Water: Old Song, New Lyrics The Sacramento San Joaquin delta waterway is a source of water and trouble. Photo by Spencer Michels. When I was in junior high school in San Francisco, in the early 1950s, I had a student teacher in social studies… Continue reading
Aug 02 California's Mixing Bowl: The Delta's Crucial Role in a Thirsty State On July 25, Gov. Jerry Brown of California and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a $23.7 billion plan to divert the Sacramento River's flow underneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the California Aqueduct. Courtesy: Rich… Continue reading
Jul 26 USDA: Severe Drought Will Drive Up Cost of Food The drought gripping the Midwest is affecting 88 percent of the country's corn crop and will send food prices up next year, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Continue reading
Jul 25 Sudden, Rare Ice Melt in Greenland. What Caused it? By Jenny Marder In a four-day period this July, the Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate than satellite data has ever recorded and at higher elevations than we've seen in our lifetimes. So what caused this extraordinary melt? Since May,… Continue reading
Jul 24 Big Fish: Vietnam's Fish Farmers Scale Up for Global Distribution By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy As the world looks to feed a growing population, fish are seen as one solution. But fish farms have a long history of disease, pollution and interfering with the surrounding ecosystem. Marketplace reporter Sam Eaton traveled to Vietnam to look… Continue reading
Jul 23 Scaling Up: Vietnamese Fish Farms Search for Eco-Friendly Formula Until recently, only a tiny fraction of the world's food fish came from farms. Today roughly half of it does, and demand is expected to double by In a world hungry for protein, aquaculture is the ultimate growth… Continue reading