Jul 28 Watch NewsHour Connect: Heat Wave Has Midwest Agriculture Melting, Food Prices Rising NewsHour Connect: Heat Wave Has Midwest Agriculture Melting, Food Prices Rising… Continue watching
Jul 28 What’s Behind the Problem of Disappearing Bees? Photo by Flickr user net_efekt Bees, for some reason, seem to fascinate us. Perhaps it's their social structure: the queen, the workers, the drones, producing honey and baby bees and living their short lives in a super-organized way… Continue reading
Jul 25 Mongolian Herders See Changes as Temperatures Rise By Lauren Knapp The East Asian nation of Mongolia is home to about 3 million people, half of whom make their living off of livestock. Since 1960, Mongolia's average temperature has increased by 3.85 degrees Fahrenheit -- a change faster than the… Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch Conversation: Perceptions of Climate Change in Mongolia Conversation: Perceptions of Climate Change in Mongolia… Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch Nuclear Regulatory Commission Advises U.S. Nuclear Reactor Safety Upgrade The Nuclear Regulatory Commission presented a new set of industry safety recommendations for the U.S. on Tuesday. Gwen Ifill reports on the safety changes sparked by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Japanese coast and triggered a nuclear crisis. Continue watching
Jul 15 Watch Washington, D.C.’s Water Wars A student from Washington, D.C. investigates water quality issues in his hometown. Continue watching
Jul 11 ‘Have Wit, Will Travel’ By Paul Solman Economics was dubbed "the dismal science" by 19th century English intellectual Thomas Carlyle. The reason: the Reverend Thomas Malthus' grim prediction, around 1800, that population would inevitably outstrip food supply, since the former grows geometrically (1,2,4,8...), the latter, arithmetically (1,2,3,4...). Continue reading
Jul 11 ‘Have Wit, Will Travel’: The Life of an Economist And Stand-Up Comic By Paul Solman Economics was dubbed "the dismal science" by 19th century English intellectual Thomas Carlyle. The reason: the Reverend Thomas Malthus' grim prediction, around 1800, that population would inevitably outstrip food supply, since the former grows geometrically (1,2,4,8...), the latter, arithmetically (1,2,3,4...). Continue reading
Jul 08 Watch Big Sky Country Struggles With Yellowstone Oil Spill Aftermath In Montana, contractors have been working 12 hours a day to soak up what they can of the estimated 42,000 gallons of crude oil that escaped into the Yellowstone River from a broken ExxonMobil pipeline. Correspondent Tom Bearden reports from… Continue watching
Jul 08 Montanans Worry About Fallout from Yellowstone Spill "The last, best place." That's how Montanans often describe their state to outsiders. "A great place to raise a family" is also popular. They brag about their deep blue "Big Sky," the scenery, and the hunting and… Continue reading