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Activists in Brazil are fighting to protect the environment — and their lives
908. That’s the number of environmental and land-reform activists assassinated worldwide between 2003 and 2013, according to a study by the NGO Global Witness. The number might shock you, but perhaps...
View ArticleWhat would life on Mars be like? A Canadian scientist spent months in a...
Life on Mars or the nearest thing to it. That's what Canadian physics Ph.D. student Ross Lockwood signed up to experience.He and five other researchers just completed 120 days living in a NASA-built...
View ArticleHuge mysterious holes emerge in the Russian tundra
If you've seen the pictures online like the one at the top of this page, you’re probably wondering: What in the world are those huge new holes in Siberia?The discovery of two bizarre craters in...
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Jennifer Lopez has a species of water mite named after her. Really
A few years ago Paul Sikkel, a marine ecologist at Arkansas State University, and his team were doing research on a fish parasite that exists in the Caribbean."[When] we were working in the lab, we...
View ArticleA Liberian describes the hard reality of Ebola: 'You're running even from...
The Ebola crisis has so overwhelmed Liberia's hospitals that some patients are being treated in their homes. "We do need all of the help we can get," says the country's Information Minister Lewis...
View ArticleJune set a new global temperature record
June 2014 was the hottest June since records began in 1880, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.May 2014 also set a global heat record, says Jake Crouch, a climate...
View ArticleEvangelicals increasingly are embracing environmentalism
The Environmental Protection Agency earlier this week wrapped up two days of public hearings on its proposed climate rule that would curb carbon emissions from the nation's powers plants.The comment...
View ArticleName the lost landmass that once bridged the UK and Europe
This Geo Quiz is a little bit different — we're asking you to name a place that hasn't existed for over 8,000 years.This landmass used to connect the UK to the European mainland, until it was swallowed...
View ArticleHere's how a tiny Pacific island got better Internet than the US
Last year, King Tupou VI of Tonga stood beside his prime minister, Lord Tu‘ivakanō, in front of a crowd gathered in the center of the nation’s capital, Nuku‘alofa. With as much pageantry as he could...
View ArticleAfter a long journey from Africa, a new tropical disease sets up shop in Florida
It can't kill you, or make you bleed from the eyes and ears the way the horrible Ebola virus that’s been ravaging West Africa can.But the chikungunya virus can cause such extreme joint pain that you...
View ArticleFracking often gets blamed for water problems, but it's not a clear cut case
A good number of people in Pennsylvania no longer have drinkable well water.Among them is John Fair, who lives north of Pittsburgh in Butler County. He has to get his drinking water through a “water...
View ArticleA new online tracking tool may be shadowing you on the web
The seemingly endless arms race between Internet users and online data collectors has opened a new front: canvas fingerprinting.Julia Angwin, the author of Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy,...
View ArticleDrones are making tentative steps into the US civilian space
Drones have been fixtures in headlines recently — and not just the military kind, but increasingly the kind that might one day deliver packages to our doorstep. In a world where we're used to getting...
View ArticleYes, steak is expensive. But its true cost is even higher than you may think
If you're an environmentally conscious eater, a new study says you face a pretty stark choice when you look at the menu.It's not even meat versus vegetables: “Basically, it is really beef versus...
View ArticleAre antibiotics in livestock helping fuel 'superbugs'? Scientists and courts...
The emergence of diseases resistanct to antibiotics is a growing and alarming global problem, but a new court decision means that American agriculture may keep contributing to the spread of...
View ArticleA record Internet data heist can't be fixed with a password change
News emerged Tuesday that a gang of Russian hackers stole more than a billion usernames and passwords from people around the world. What's worse? They're getting more brazen about their attacks."In a...
View ArticleThe key to some big endangered species crime investigations is a small lab in...
At the International Mail Facility at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, an inspector for this US Fish and Wildlife Service opens a box that’s been flagged as suspicious, reaches inside and pulls out...
View ArticleNew lawn 'mooers' keep the grass trimmed in East London's parks
Ever been jolted out of bed by the sound of a noisy lawnmower on a Saturday morning? Residents of Havering, a borough in East London, don't have to worry about that anymore.Havering's council recently...
View ArticleHow American seafood goes almost everywhere except America
Something weird is going on in the US seafood industry.“The United States controls more ocean than any country on Earth," says Paul Greenberg, author of the new book, American Catch: The Fight for Our...
View ArticleHow do you make walking easier for people who are blind? Put submarine tech...
Students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi are making an impression with a new invention called the SmartCane. It enhances one of the world's oldest instruments — the walking stick — by...
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