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A journal of science, thought, and action.

Dec

2018

A Volcano & Climate Change

A Canadian volcano re-awakens.

Dec

2018

Australia's Solar Battery Success

Tesla battery saved $40million in 1st year.

Archive Highlights

Rescue Beetles

It's easy to miss a plague of green while being amazed by canyon walls and class 5 rapids on the Colorado River.

15 Jul 2014

Video Highlights

Recent Archive Highlights

Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

24 November 2018

Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

A storyteller suggests an answer.

21 November 2018

My Life As A Turkey

A true turkey story for Thanksgiving.

28 October 2018

Krakatoa Awakens, an update

Krakatoa is again active.

4 September 2018

Rewilding

A 'silent spring' could become a 'wild summer'

26 June 2018

Conserving, the Mother Load

Avoiding another Dust Bowl.

15 January 2018

Environmental Art

Creating paintings with natue connections.

River Deltas...here & there

River deltas result when materials are moved from uplands to lowlands. They happen wherever liquids flow.

3941

No More Frozen Ponds, No More Hockey

It's not just glaciers: the NHL frets about the melting ice.

3810

How Can People Be Skeptical About Facts?

Let me ask you about our planet. Think about the whole planet, now, from Boulder to Bangladesh, not just your little corner of it.

3419

Twitter As A Scientific Resource

Examining Twitter's potential as a scientific source

2167

Iceberg Collapses -- Woman Shrieks in Fear

Watch this terrifying footage of an iceberg collapsing off Newfoundland.

2884

Buckled Lands

Afghanistan's Sulaiman Ranges are one of the most buckled landscapes on Earth.

3292

Do You Ever Feel Trapped?

"Nature is a movie that goes by outside the car window."

3240

Skylight Auroras

Imagine rooms with auroras as skylights overhead...sounds beautiful!

2779

How You Can Be Like Elsa From 'Frozen'

Why did no one tell me this was possible? I want to freak people out with this.

2630

6th Grade Ecologist

A science project offered insight into the adaptive potential, and ecosystem threat, of an invasive species. The ecologist was 12 years old.

4469

'Yes, But It's a Dry Heat'

Maybe that's a better phrase for climate change: The Heat.

2630

Gondwana Beauty

Gondwanaland produced some really plant beauties that are still flowering nearly 80 million years later.

10464

California Turns Brown

California's drought takes on a different dimension from two new NASA photographs.

3060

Mapping Mars

Planning a trip to Mars? You'll need some good maps to go hiking.

2891

Sailing the Wine Dark Seas

Homer tells about Odysseus and his ten year journey to find his home after the Trojan War. Odysseus could have used some better maps.

4317

Rescue Beetles

It's easy to miss a plague of green while being amazed by canyon walls and class 5 rapids on the Colorado River.

6188

Dwarf Star Remnants

A dwarf star exploded in a supernova in 1006 AD that is still visible today.

3118

Germaine Greer: "I've now become a doer"

The author has said she "is now a doer" and set off on a second career in rainforest restoration.

8162

Real Warriors Wear Plants

The Greeks are well known for many things---art, philosophy, science---but their battlefield technology was equally well developed.

3620

WildLeaks

Trafficking in endangered wildlife is now the 4th largest transnational crime in the worldAn online whistle-blower is now available to expose the 'bad guys'.

8643

Watch the Other Side of the Global Warning Debate -- or Don't

Watching largest gathering of climate change deniers.

2860

Thamserku views

Thamserku is a mountain giant aside the trail to Mount Everest.

4742

The Temperature of Stupid

Hearing that the government might regulate pollutants destroys brain cells faster than sniffing glue.

3077

Across the Universe

If we had eyes to see in x-rays and radio waves, everything would look very different.

9820

Big Builders

"For a long time, whales have been considered too rare to make much of a difference in the oceans." That was a mistake.

4841

Hungry Plants

Some plants evolved to become carnivores.

2691

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