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The Paris climate deal won't save the world, but it does give us a chance
Bill McKibben is never one to praise official goings-on. But as the latest marathon UN climate talks closed with the most substantial global agreement ever on fighting climate change, even he could...
View ArticleKenya basically bans all drone use — despite potential benefits they may yield
A small drone mounted with a GoPro camera lifts off, hovering over a field in the outskirts of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The drone operator keeps it low; the highest he normally flies it is 100...
View ArticleAir pollution in the developing world is killing millions every year
Over the weekend at the COP21 summit in Paris, nearly 200 countries reached a landmark agreement to fight climate change. Though that is welcome news to much of the world, the nations that are actually...
View ArticleHow an extinct species is being revived on the Galapagos Islands
Lonesome George, the last giant tortoise of his kind from Pinta Island in the Galapagos, died in 2012, about 100 years old.George was a type of saddleback tortoise, whose rare, peaked shells are unique...
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Can private investment help vulnerable cities adapt to climate change?
More than 700,000 people had evacuated the central Philippines as Typhoon Melor rolled onto the island of Samar. Just three years ago Typhoon Haiyan devastated parts of that same island.Typhoon Melor's...
View ArticleA prominent scientist says the just-reached COP21 target for climate change...
Two degrees Celsius. It has become a familiar number to anyone who follows news about global warming and climate change.Climate negotiators in Paris and others have repeatedly stated that limiting...
View Article'What We’re Fighting for Now is Each Other,' a new book declares
After watching the failures of the UN negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009 and the failure in 2010 of the US Congress to pass even weak legislation addressing climate change, former NPR journalist Wen...
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More pigs, less water: One Israeli transplant charts a course for...
One of the first things you’ll learn about Shahar Caspi is that he’s not afraid to do things differently. To a point.“God forbid if my Jewish mother knew that I’m raising pigs,” Caspi says as he greets...
View ArticleWhatsApp is back on in Brazil. But why was it blocked in the first place?
Millions of Brazilians were left without access to WhatsApp after a local court ordered a 48-hour, countrywide suspension of the mobile messaging application this week.That's a big deal in nation with...
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She's one of only seven female guides in Kenya's Maasai Mara
When you first arrive at the Maasai Mara in Kenya, you look out over a plateau so vast and beautiful that it’s almost incomprehensible.Mara means “spotted” in Maasai, and when you look out over the...
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Paris high schoolers address climate change — one discarded yogurt container...
Lunch time at the Honoré de Balzac School in Paris’s 17th arrondissement is usually fast, busy and messy for its 2,000 middle and high school students.But on this day, the cafeteria is even messier...
View ArticleWhat does Pluto look like? Imagine three-mile-high mountains and nitrogen...
Photos from New Horizons' trip past Pluto have revealed new details of the dwarf planet's surface — including three-mile-high water-ice mountains and deep layered craters.“This is the apex, these are...
View ArticleHaving a hard time picturing the multiverse? Head to Scotland where you can...
“The Crawick Multiverse” is a sprawling piece of landscape art tucked into Dumfries and Galloway in the Scottish countryside. Landscape artist Charles Jencks designed it, and earlier this year...
View ArticleIf the multiverse is real, what does that mean for modern-day religion?
There are lots of multiverse theories in play at the moment. They have names ranging from “the quilted multiverse” and “the inflationary universe” and “the ultimate multiverse.” It all feels exciting...
View ArticleHow a mislaunched satellite might help us test Einstein's theory of general...
Last year, the European Space Agency accidentally launched two Galileo satellites into the wrong orbit.Their elongated orbits made them inoperable for the ESA’s global-navigation system, but a group of...
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Vultures with GoPros —yes, real vultures — are helping clean up Peru
Sometimes the most genius ideas are the simplest.That seems to be the rule in Peru, where they’ve hit upon the perfect way to track down a burgeoning number of illegal garbage dumps: follow the...
View ArticleWhen analyzing the Paris climate talks, how you see it is a matter of...
The Paris climate agreement, signed a little over a week ago, has been heralded by many as a feat of international diplomacy that may just stave off the worst effects of climate change.But reactions to...
View Article'Welcome back, baby.' SpaceX rocket lands safely back on Earth.
Cheers and applauds filled the mission control room at SpaceX mission control.The SpaceX employees were celebrating what many consider to be a historic moment for private space exploration.The company...
View ArticleThe (near) future of body modification
Sure, it was the plot of a ’90s sci-fi movie, but now "Gattaca" is about to intersect with reality.Only, according to Vanderbilt’s Michael Bess, the movie didn’t go nearly far enough.Thanks to recent...
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To slow climate change, you have to start here
The phrase “climate change” often summons images of exhaust-spewing trucks and coal plants blackening the skies.But there’s a lesser-known source of emissions that the public should fear alongside...
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