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 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 Watch 'Revolutionary' Ultra Light Car Aims for an X Prize Could a new ultra light car that promises to get 100 miles per gallon change the way we drive? Judy Woodruff reports on a group of mechanics and engineers who want to change modern day cars and win the $5… 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
Aug 24 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Indianapolis Museum of Art Breaks New Ground Tuesday on the NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown goes to Indiana to talk to the curators, artists and patrons involved in the transformation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Continue reading
Aug 20 BP Set to Hand Over Control of $20B Gulf Coast Oil Claims Fund On Monday, residents and businesses affected by the Gulf Coast oil leak will begin submitting their damage claims to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, the new independent group that will take over the administration of BP's $20 billion compensation… Continue reading