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The Promise of Technology — To Solve Deforestation, This Time
Photo by David Rodriguez Martin, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Like a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, a new start-up promises to solve deforestation by planting 1 billion trees a year using drones. BioCarbon...
View ArticleTelescopes & Climate Models: Distrusting New Ways of Seeing
The history of science is a history of technology, as new tools give scientists new ways of seeing and understanding our world. When we develop new tools, it can be hard to tell whether they are good...
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200 Years Ago: Mount Tambora Eruption Felt Around the World
Archaeologists recovered a nutcracker (top left), a teapot (top right), a tobacco box (bottom left), and a silver ring (bottom right) from a town buried under ash and debris ejected during the Tambora...
View ArticleThe Not-So-Brief History of Climate Change Science
Climate change seems like a recent issue, but it’s been a topic of scientific research since at least the 1800s. A nice four-minute video history of climate change science by Meg Rosenburg:...
View ArticleThe Power of the Deepwater Horizon Story
I bet I’ll look back in 40 years and consider the Deepwater Horizon oil spill a defining event of my life. It was the first major disaster that I followed obsessively on the news as a recent college...
View Article“Natural” vs. “Artificial” Food: Michael Pollan Chimes In
Today in the New York Times, Michael Pollan considers recent legal attempts to define “natural.” Why ‘Natural’ Doesn’t Mean Anything Anymore: At one extreme end of the spectrum of possible meanings,...
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The birth of a new world under climate change
Change can be a terrifying thing. Change isn’t always bad, but it’s unpredictable. Often we’d rather stick with what we know than venture into the uncertain and the unknown. Lizzie Wade gets at this...
View ArticleAncient Egyptians bred raptors
Ancient Egyptians bred birds of prey for religious sacrifice: The revelation came after researchers at the American University in Cairo imaged a mummified kestrel and realized the bird had been...
View ArticleIt’s official: AP Stylebook denies climate “skeptics” or “deniers”
The AP Stylebook now recommends “climate change doubters” over “climate skeptics” or “climate deniers”: We have reviewed our entry on global warming as part of our efforts to continually update the...
View ArticlePandas: To Save Them or Not To Save Them?
Pandas were once a mascot for the conservation movement and zoo rehabilitation in particular. But in the last few years, they’ve become an object of disdain and symbol of what is wrong with...
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