Covering earthquakes is getting to be a tiring, depressing business lately. From the horrific ongoing tragedy in Haiti that started with a magnitude 7.0 tremor in January to strong quakes in Japan, Taiwan, Chile, and just this morning, a magnitude ...
This week, Discovery Earth is focusing on the science of climate change. To that end, to help clarify some of the misunderstandings and misrepresentations of a number of climate change issues, we will be looking at a selection of the ...
I’ve had lots of conversations about the weather, but never like this. I was sitting in the living room of Robert and Joanne Simpson – pioneers of meteorology - talking about clouds. They’d positioned their couch so they could view ...
There's no question that 2009 was an interesting year for the science and politics of climate change. Both this report and this one provided new syntheses of the issue, two of the most recent summaries of an ongoing and growing ...
John Cook is the Brisbane-based founder and editor of SkepticalScience.com, probably the definitive resource on anti-global warming claims and the scientific responses to them. Regularly updated, the site lists - and breaks down into an assortment of categories and sub-categories ...
The death of trainer Dawn Brancheau today at SeaWorld Adventure Park in Orlando, Florida at the hands of Tilikum, one of the largest killer whales in captivity, was a shocking, terrible tragedy. There are no words for her family and ...
This simple question is probably one of the hardest to answer in all of climate science. Despite over 100 years of hurricane records, and fifty years of satellite-based data, researchers are just starting to get a picture of how the ...
In the wake of a series of flaws, human and otherwise, found surrounding Climate Change 2007 (aka the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report), suggestions are emerging about how to fix the beleaguered scientific conglomerate. Five such recommendations ...
Snowmageddon churns along here in the Washington, DC metro area, preparing to bring us a possible 6-16 inches more of the white stuff (argh, Snowverdose!) today and tomorrow. And as we prepare to break some snowiest winter records (just 10 ...
If this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on iTunes and chat ...
