NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer
I spent the last hour transfixed by deep sea footage at the YouTube channel of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Ship Okeanos Explorer. It is worth a leisurely visit. The first video presented below is from an expedition exploring Puerto...
Inge Lehmann: “A Small Solid Core in the Innermost Part of the Earth”
By Dana Hunter Rosetta Stones/Scientific American Editor's Note: Today would have been the 127th birthday of groundbreaking, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann -- a fact known by significantly more people today than yesterday, thanks to a nifty Google doodle in her...
Third Fire in Eight Years at Indian Point Nuclear Plant. Oil Spill Reaches Hudson River
On May 9, a transformer exploded and caught fire at the Indian Point Unit 3 nuclear plant in Buchanan, New York. Black smoke emanating from the site could be seen for miles. Media reported the public was never in danger. Entergy, owner and operator of the facility,...
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Walter Cronkite’s 1980 Global Warming Alert
Thirty-five years ago, for two and half minutes – an eternity even then by TV news standards and a near-impossibility today – a broadcast anchored by The Most Trusted Man in America tried to warn us about climate change.
Noah by Osmani Simanca
Brazil’s worst drought in a century may cause its largest city, Sao Paulo, to go dry. There is little relief in sight.
Atlantic Circulation Weaker Than In Last Thousand Years
A sweeping ocean conveyor system that ushers warm tropical waters into the North Atlantic appears to have partly recovered from a near-collapse around the time that the Beatles were breaking up.
Florida Climate by Pat Bagley
Patrick “Pat” Bagley is an American editorial cartoonist and journalist for The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Time to Fight Habitats Hostile to the Homeless
What's wrong with this public bench? It prevents this: The internationally famous, 87-year old Strand Bookstore in New York City’s Greenwich Village calls itself “a community bookstore first and foremost.” In 2013, it installed a sprinkler system that...
Sean Gallagher on Everyday Climate Change
Located on the northern shores of the island of Java, the Indonesian capital of Jakarta is on the front line of climate change.
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Potentially Explosive Oil Trains Run Beneath West Point Military Academy
The route of oil trains that transport volatile Bakken crude along the Hudson River is often described as running "adjacent" or "past" the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In fact, it runs under the military campus through a tunnel above which sits: Thayer Hall,...