Sickened Texas Family Awarded Millions In First US Fracking Case
A Texas family was awarded nearly $3 million in a lawsuit against Aruba Petroleum, alleging that the Plano company’s hydraulic fracturing activity made them sick and forced them to leave their...
View ArticleIncredible Heat Map Shows Where Tornadoes Strike The US Most Often
This insane heat map shows the areas of the U.S. where the weather is ripest for creating tornadoes. The data shows the average number of tornado watches per year between 1993 and 2012. The orange and...
View ArticleFox Denies Telling Scientific American Editor Not To Discuss Climate Change
Michael Moyer, an editor at Scientific American, was invited to "Fox & Friends" this morning to discuss "futuristic trends."Attention early risers: I'm set to appear on Fox & Friends at 6:20am...
View ArticleFoods That Are Bad For You Are Bad For The Environment Too
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Foods with the largest environmental footprint tend to also provide less nutrition and cost more per unit than foods with a smaller impact on the environment, a recent...
View ArticleTrack From Sunday's Alabama Tornado Visible In Satellite Images
A violent tornado touched down in Arkansas on April 27, 2014, killing as many as 15 people. The top image, acquired on April 28 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s...
View ArticleTour The Man-Made Crater That's Been Burning For More Than 40 Years
From the center of the Karakum desert in Asia, a massive crater dubbed the "Door to Hell," has been spewing flames for more than 40 years. The ceaseless fire, which can be seen for miles in the...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson: Don't Worry, Earth Will Survive Climate Change — We Won't
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> Produced by Kamelia Angelova, William Wei, & Alana KakoyiannisStarTalk Radio is...
View ArticleCalifornia Faces An Extremely Cruel And Dry Summer
California's final snow survey of the year doesn't bring any good news for the drought-stricken state.On Thursday, water officials said that the water content in the statewide snowpack was 18% of...
View ArticlePROFESSOR: These Are The Charts That Explain Climate Change
Michael Mann, professor of meteorology at Penn State, dropped by Madison, Wis. last week, and we quizzed him about the state of the climate. Mann's post-doctoral work (1) thesis introduced the "hockey...
View ArticleFormer Obama Chief Of Staff On Pushing Climate Change Policy: 'You Might As...
On Tuesday, the third National Climate Assessment — a more than 1,000-page status report on climate change and its impacts in the United States — will be released at the White House.The White House is...
View ArticleA Landmark US Climate Change Report Is Coming Tuesday
A landmark report on climate change in the United States will be formally released at the White House on Tuesday, following approval by a federal advisory committee.The National Climate Assessment is a...
View Article15 Emerging Agriculture Technologies That Will Change The World
Policy Horizons Canada worked with futurist and data visualizer Michell Zappa of Envisioning to produce a report called MetaScan 3: Emerging Technologies and accompanying infographics. We are...
View ArticleOne Chart Shows How Climate Change Will Destroy Each Region Of The Country
The third National Climate Assessment was released on Tuesday, May 6, outlining the threats Americans face because of a warming planet. You can download the full report here. Average temperatures in...
View Article8 Shocking Charts From The Landmark New Report On Climate Change
A landmark climate report released at the White House Tuesday shows that climate change is affecting every part of the United States."Summers on the whole have been getting hotter, wildfires have been...
View ArticleScientists Found Something Startling In Photos Of A Rare Goblin Shark
In April, shrimp fisherman Carl Moore accidentally caught an incredibly rare goblin shark off the Florida Keys. Moore snapped photos of the 18-foot-long creature before releasing it back into the...
View ArticleResearchers Are Chopping Up The Massive Blue Whale The Washed Up In A...
On Thursday, a team from the Royal Ontario Museum began the process of recovering one of the two blue whale carcasses that washed up on the coast of Newfoundland last month. The whales — one found in...
View ArticleNASA: The Collapse Of The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Is 'Unstoppable'
Melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet is likely unstoppable, two new papers published Monday indicate. That means the sea level rise projects by 2100 will need to be revised, closer to 3 feet of sea...
View ArticleAn Alarming Prediction About Antarctica Made In 1978 Is Coming True
Two new studies published on Monday report that the melting of the ice sheet in West Antarctica is unstoppable and could raise global sea levels by as much as 4 feet in the next century, a higher...
View ArticleThe World's Oldest Known Orca Whale Was Just Spotted Along The Canadian Coast
The world's oldest known orca whale was recently spotted in Canadian waters, leading her pod up from California into the southern Strait of Georgia, Seattlepi.com reports.J-2, also known as "Granny,"...
View ArticleScientists May Have Finally Pinpointed What's Killing All The Honeybees
A new study seems to strengthen the evidence linking pesticides used on crops to colony collapse disorder in honeybees.Colony collapse disorder, or CCD, is a phenomenon in which honeybees inexplicably...
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