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Here's one easy way to share your Thanksgiving meal with Syrian refugees
This Thanksgiving, Paul Katcher wanted to reflect not only on what he’s grateful for, but also for all the choices he doesn’t have to make, the kind of bleak decisions faced by Syrian civilians caught...
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Photographer takes a look at the (legal and otherwise) drugs we pop
This is a microscopic image of MDMA, the psychoactive drug popularly known as ecstasy, or Molly, that “produces feelings of increased energy, euphoria, emotional warmth and empathy toward others, and...
View ArticleBeekeepers and researchers are collaborating to build a better honeybee
According to bee researcher Maryann Frazier, the Varroa mite, a parasitic mite that feeds on the blood of adult bees and on the brood, is the main thing that’s been wiping out honeybees since the...
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Turning ice into fire. Iceland goes for drama.
The first thing you need to know is that Iceland is changing.Icelander Sveinbjörn Steinþôrsson, a muscular guy in his 40s, grew up hiking on glaciers here. And he says he’s actually seen the...
View ArticleA breakthrough may make the mega flow battery commercially viable in the near...
With renewable power becoming more common, researchers are increasingly focused on figuring out how to safely store and discharge large amounts of energy. Expensive lithium-ion batteries don't do this...
View ArticleWhat brainless slime mold can teach us about making better decisions
There is a mindless, senseless yellow-tinted blob of an organism that lives on the forest floor. It’s called slime mold and even though it lacks a brain, it can be relied upon to make a healthy...
View ArticleThe little-known world of endangered plant poaching
There are plenty of news stories about lions, leopards and elephants being poached, but animals aren’t the only endangered species out there. Rare and protected plants are also harvested by poachers,...
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France bans marches, but climate activists make their voices heard
A city still on edge. A parade of world leaders streaming in. Forty thousand extra visitors. Demonstrators determined to make their voices heard despite a state of emergency and a ban on marches and...
View ArticleLive from Paris: COP21
Follow along for the latest from the COP21 climate conference in Paris in our live blog.Live Blog Dispatches from COP21 in Paris
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Global meat consumption will soar by 2024. But what meat is eaten makes a big...
How much meat does the average American eat annually? 50 pounds (20 kilograms)? 100 pounds (40 kilograms)? Not even close.If we look just at the livestock “Big Four” — cows, chickens, pigs and sheep —...
View ArticleAre Californians awesome on climate change — or just stuck-up?
From a little gritty warehouse near downtown Los Angeles, a startup company called Hive Lighting sells light systems to the entertainment industry. The company’s hugely efficient, relatively small...
View ArticleHope and economics (and Obama and Modi) collide at climate talks
Though he warned that “getting 200 nations to agree on anything is hard,” President Obama insisted on Tuesday that an international agreement on climate will be reached before the end of the UN climate...
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The pollution level in Beijing is at one of its highest ever
China's president Xi Jinping is at the UN climate summit in Paris this week promising to help clear the air of the pollutants that help heat up the atmosphere. But back home in Beijing, some of those...
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China's recent smog gets the attention, but climate change, more broadly,...
Recent scenes of Beijing smog so thick it made noon look like an apocalyptic dusk, were a vivid reminder to world leaders meeting at the climate change summit in Paris, of the urgent need is to reduce...
View ArticleHow China’s slowing economy could help battle climate change
When economic historians look back on the first 15 years of the 21st century, here’s the headline: China built a lot of stuff and most everyone else bought that stuff.Last summer though, that model...
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Climate change-linked 'everyday disasters' are displacing the world’s poorest...
A report prepared for the UN Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction says when you add up the mounting losses from climate change, it’s small-scale, “everyday disasters” that are taking the biggest...
View ArticleAfter years of stalled talks, a veteran journalist has high hopes for this...
The UN climate summit underway this week in Paris is just the latest in a long — some might say interminable — series of such events going back 23 years, to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero in...
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Coastal city of Chennai, India's fourth largest, experiences record-breaking...
For days, Chennai has been innundated with torrential, record-breaking monsoon rains — that have left the city submerged in flood waters. Meteorologists say the southern India is getting the heaviest...
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Meet the pawpaw, America's forgotten fruit
The pawpaw was once a cherished treat and a source of sustenance for many people in the eastern US. Chances are, though, you’ve never tasted one — which is a shame, because it is one of the most...
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What's the bigger risk: Using nuclear energy or turning away from it?
James Hansen, perhaps the world’s most preeminent climate scientist, is best known for sounding the alarm to Congress about the risks of global warming way back in 1988. Since then, he’s been an...
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