At a U.S. Senate hearing, scientists warned that New Orleans, Florida and other places will be radically transformed if global warming is allowed to continue unabated In a probable sc... Read more
Two robots equipped with instruments designed to “listen” for the calls of baleen whales detected nine endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of Maine last month. The robots repo... Read more
Want to keep track of the latest Aquarius Reef Base mission? The Aquarius Reef Base sits 60 feet underwater, three and a half miles off the Florida coast. Sylvia Earle, the legendary 76-year... Read more
OUR ability to forecast the weather is in big trouble. Last month, the National Research Council concluded that the nation’s system of Earth-observing satellites is in a state of “pre... Read more
There’s a Startup for That Ecovative Design’s green packaging has edged its way into a giant computer company, the U.S. auto industry, and the country’s biggest office-furniture... Read more
More violent and frequent storms, once merely a prediction of climate models, are now a matter of observation. This is the first of a three-part series. In North Dakota the waters kept risin... Read more
Image via Wikipedia These microscopic life forms are blooming as a result of the oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico from the Macondo 252 deep-sea well The Deepwater Horizon oil spill added... Read more
As part of the U.S. charm offensive at the recent Copenhagen summit on climate change, a roughly one meter-diameter orb helped display a decade’s worth of climate data collected by NAS... Read more