A World Health Organization report warns we're moving toward a world where...
There's a new report out today from the World Health Organization on the spread of drug-resistant microbes, and it's a pretty scary document.It concludes that the world may be heading into a...
View ArticleAfter 50,000 years buried under the ocean floor, an ancient cypress forest...
For many years, Ben Raines was the environment reporter for the Alabama Press-Register. A buddy who owned a scuba diving shop used to taunt him with a tale of an underwater forest.In 2012, his friend...
View ArticleIt's not about the technology, it's about the people says Twitter's co-founder
"It wasn't about the techonolgy, it was about the people," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says of the social media company's rise as a global political organizing force. "It just happens to be that...
View ArticleThis African country is home to a chimpanzee rescue center
Journalist Diane Toomey sent along this Geo Quiz after having returned from visiting the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center. We are looking for you to name the country where the center is located.All...
View ArticleThe impacts of climate change are already here, but could get worse
Climate change is an unprecedented global problem. But the impacts are very local. They leave no one untouched.That’s the sobering message from the Obama Administration’s “National Climate Assessment.”...
View ArticleFaced with dire climate change, denial may actually help Australian farmers cope
In Australia, government researchers say climate change has definitely hit the country, hard.In its “State of the Climate 2014,” Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology cites a nearly two degree Fahrenheit...
View ArticleIs this where the myth of Atlantis comes from?
Many of the world's civilizations have a legend of a bountiful land being swallowed up by the sea. For Europeans, it’s Atlantis. But it’s just a myth, right?Well, about 8200 years ago, human life...
View ArticleStanford University uses its purse strings to protest coal companies
There's big news on the climate change front: Stanford University announced it will no longer invest any of its $18 billion endowment in coal mining companies. In a press release, Stanford gave its...
View ArticleWho or what is behind these strange videos uploaded to YouTube?
At 2:45 on September 23rd, 2013 an 11-second video was uploaded to YouTube by a user named Webdriver Torso.The videos were just a series of red, white and blue shapes and an eerie tone (see above).Big...
View ArticleIs climate change a bigger threat to our national security than terrorism?
The new National Climate Assessment is sounding the alarm on climate change, but a Pew Research Center survey conducted last spring, found just 40 percent of Americans say global climate change was a...
View ArticleThe full extent of the BP Gulf oil spill is still unfolding before our eyes
In 2010, soon after the Gulf oil spill began, a Sky News reporter asked BP’s CEO Tony Hayward what effect he thought the oil spill would have on the Gulf of Mexico.“It is impossible to say,” Hayward...
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If you drink wine and care about the planet, cork growers want your attention
I never really stopped and thought much about the cork in my wine bottle, where it comes from or how it’s made.“Cork is actually in the oak family,” explained Richard Z. Donovn, vice president of...
View ArticleYour video games may revolutionize health and scientific research
What do you normally picture when you hear the word "gaming?" A teenager with her eyes glued to the TV for hours? A commuter playing Candy Crush on his smart phone?Scientists and researchers may soon...
View ArticleWith a changing climate, the French see trouble ahead for champagne
If you're like millions of people around the world you might well be celebrating something this spring with a bottle of sparkling wine, perhaps even Champagne, the classic variety.It’s the traditional...
View ArticleA reporter finds China's tiger farms likely contribute to poaching — rather...
China's caught a lot of flak in recent years for its lax attitude toward the trade in endangered species. That's slowly starting to change, but there are still stark examples of the government actually...
View ArticleResearchers are learning how to say, ‘Run! Bees!'— in elephant
The African elephant, the largest land animal on Earth, is terrified of bees.Joseph Soltis, a research scientist at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, says elephants make a specific...
View ArticleA scientist-artist recreates human ancestors by studying their bones
When you’re a small child and you discover something fascinating, says paleo-artist John Gurche, you create art about it. "I remember in fourth grade, " Gurche says, "I made an evolutionary series of...
View ArticleChampagne may be in trouble, but climate change has sparkling wine from...
It can be hard to find a silver lining to the climate story. But here and there, climate change is bringing some benefits and creating new opportunities.Take the case of southern England, where one day...
View ArticleShould we have a 'right to be forgotten' on the Net?
When Edward Snowden pulled back the curtain on the National Security Agency's mass surveillance apparatus, online privacy took on a whole new meaning. And when tech companies in the US use data as the...
View ArticleEuropeans can now request information about themselves be removed from the web
Mario Costeja Gonzalez was not happy with the search results that showed up in Google when he typed in his name.Gonzalez, who is a lawyer, said when he searched his name, Google brought up newspaper...
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