The Rise of the Tick
With incisor-like claws that can tunnel beneath your skin in seconds, ticks are rapidly becoming the world’s scariest purveyors of deadly pathogens. Carl Zimmer walks into the woods to find out why...
Science
Adventurers of the Year: NASA Engineer Bobak Ferdowsi
NASA systems engineer Bobak Ferdowsi on the Mars rover and the mohawk
The Science of Fear: A Conversation With Jaimal Yogis
The author of The Fear Project (and Saltwater Buddha) shares what he learned about our most primal emotion during the many months he spent training for a go at Mavericks.
Disappearing Act: James Balog's Quest to Capture Climate Change in Action
James Balog has spent his career pushing the artistic and adventure boundaries of nature photography. For the past five years, he's been capturing the impact of climate change on glaciers,...
Giving the Gift of Light (and a Cell-Phone Charge)
The Global BrightLight Foundation provides solar-powered combination lanterns and cell-phone chargers in off-grid areas.
The Genetically Engineered Salmon That Could Soon Run Wild
AquaBounty salmon, the unreported disaster at a Panama grow-out facility, and the Georgian libertarian who took control of the fish farm and may soon move it outside the watch of the Food & Drug...
Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2011
From the sentencing of civil disobedient Tim DeChristopher to the arrests of public protesters like Bill McKibben, 2011 turned out to be one of the most contentious years for environmental issues in...
10. Murdered Environmentalists
In 2005, Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old American nun and environmental activists, was murdered in Brazil for her attempts to protect the Amazon rainforest and aid poor families in rural Anapu.
9. Scientists Confirm Links Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
The ground was so dry in some parts of Texas last summer that the tightening clay soils were popping water-main pipes like they were toothpicks, and wildfires skirted Austin as some parts of the...
8. Fuel Standards to Force Change in Big Auto
Even though auto shows pimp futuristic concept cars and whiz-bang features each year, the auto industry moves at a glacial pace. That’s why President Obama’s approval of new standards that will...
7. EPA Gets Smoked Over Attempts to Improve Air Quality
In an effort to avoid up to 8,000 premature deaths and up to 40,000 asthma attacks annually, and more closely align the Clean Air Act with current scientific findings, the EPA wanted to lower the...
6. Climbing Collaborative Consumption
Collaborative Consumption is a system that promotes sharing things over owning things.
5. Ocean Acidification
Oceans absorb excess CO2, which we produce in spades, from the air. Scientists have known that this would lead to ocean acidification, but levels are rising faster than expected. In the Pacific...
4. Australia and California Put Price on Carbon
In early December, talks in Durban, South Africa, ended with an agreement…to keep negotiating. Nothing ground-breaking there, but delegates did decide to prevent the Kyoto Protocol from expiring next ...
3. Fukushima Daiichi Meltdown
It's hard to overstate the tragedy brought by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Northern Japan on March 11.
News
May 23, 2013
80-Year-Old Summits Everest
Breaks age record
0Shoes Leave Large Carbon Footprint
Complicated shoes require...
0SAR Volunteer to Sue Trabuco Teens
Broke his back in the search
0Scientists Pick Top 10 New Species
Identify the rarest finds
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