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.
Measurement A Month Where Fossil Fuels Fell Behind "Non-carbon" sources supplied more than half of US electrical power in March
Food Mycelial Proteins: A Little Like Mae West In a world where the environmental footprint of foods is important, mycelial proteins gain market acceptance.
Hope Commercial debut: sodium-ion batteries What might be the "better battery" for many applications is now commercially available.
Climate Change Flyby You take a good, hard look at Sagan's "pale blue dot." You learn surprising things.
Hope Carbon stocks tougher than we thought Where does carbon go when carbon goes out? More than we thought ends up in non-living material ... a persistent form of storage.
