Measurement The Road More Travelled Back there a ways, two roads diverged. Maybe the one less-travelled would have been a better idea.
Measurement What Counts How are we doing in this climate-fight thing? We have plenty of ways to measure.
Extinction The Long Way Home When a beloved species moves back from near-extinction, we feel joy. But this is the Anthropocene, when many more species are threatened than are saved every year. Part 1 in a series on extinction.
Science Sentinel 5 ... Away! The new spectroscopic instrument Sentinel-5A launched on August 12, 2025. It's ready to help us understand what's going on in our atmosphere.
Electricity Kilowatt Batteries. OMG! Sophisticated and useful energy-dense "personal power stations" have quietly come to market. They are impressive.
water More Fish in the Sea Marine preservation areas work well when properly managed. That's great ... because we need them.
Media Modelling Media Misbehaviour: A First Step A new paper helps us understand why media behave so badly so much of the time.
Hope Hot Glass, but a Cooler Climate Glass blowing, an ancient art that has always had a dreadful carbon footprint, finds ways to improve.
Measurement The World Coal Export Market It's a dirty business. But somebody always decides to do it.
Birds Feeders lead hummingbirds by the beak Backyard hummingbird feeders present an environmental shift and an opportunity for species change through natural selection.
The Day Bores Became Exciting Oilfield down-hole skills may lead to viable large-scale closed-loop geothermal. It's a trend to watch.
Can Ticks Invade Canada Faster? Some North American tick species seem to be expanding northward more quickly than their physiological cold tolerance allows. A new paper proposes an explanation.
Hope A Month Where Fossil Fuels Fell Behind "Non-carbon" sources supplied more than half of US electrical power in March