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Interstellar Visioneers 21 Jun 2013 | 05:54 pm
What does it take to conceive a new vision of the future and drive the idea forward? Keith Cooper, editor of Astronomy Now as well as Principium, the journal of the Institute for Interstellar Studies,...
World Bank Report: ‘A Disastrously Warming Planet Threatens To … Roll Back Decades Of Development’ 20 Jun 2013 | 09:32 pm
Credit: Reuters By Jesse Vogel Global climate change will damage water access, crop yields, and basic infrastructure around the world, the World Bank announced Wednesday in its report “Turn Down the...
Is Obama So Feckless On Climate Change That He’s Influenced By Meaninglesss Dial Testing? 19 Jun 2013 | 03:18 am
Juliet Eilperin drops this vial of nitroglycerin into her latest Washington Post piece: … according to several people familiar with his private remarks at the home of clean-tech entrepreneur Vinod Kh...
Exoplanet Targets in Nearby Space 18 Jun 2013 | 06:08 pm
I’m a coffee fanatic. Not only do I drink a lot of the stuff, but I roast my own beans and love fiddling with roasting times and fan speeds, trying to hit exactly the right note. And with a just-brewe...
Daddy, Could We Have Our Planet Back Now? 16 Jun 2013 | 09:25 pm
A Father’s Day essay on the world we’re leaving our children On the one hand, should I be blogging on Father’s Day? On the other hand, what more important day is there to blog on climate change than ...
Fracking Is Already Straining U.S. Water Supplies 15 Jun 2013 | 06:58 pm
An Encana fracking operation in Colorado. AP photo. As the level of hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells in the United States has intensified in recent years, much of the mounting public concern...
NASA Finds ‘Amazing’ Levels Of Arctic Methane And CO2, Asks ‘Is a Sleeping Climate Giant Stirring in the Arctic?’ 14 Jun 2013 | 02:34 am
A NASA science team has observed “amazing and potentially troubling” levels of methane and CO2 from the rapidly warming Arctic. Given the staggering amount of carbon trapped in the permafrost — and th...
A Sunny Day on a ‘Super-Earth’? 13 Jun 2013 | 05:51 pm
When a distant planet moves in front of its star as seen from Earth, the slight drop in starlight is often enough to allow sensitive instruments to make a detection. We call the degree to which the st...
Juggling Mitigation And Adaptation: Mayor Bloomberg Outlines Path Toward Climate Resiliency 12 Jun 2013 | 11:20 pm
Credit: (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave a speech where he presented a new plan that details New York City’s approach to climate resilience. Bloomberg trumpeted the succ...
Public Engagement in Deep Space 11 Jun 2013 | 06:45 pm
Congratulations to Icarus Interstellar, which with five days to go has easily surpassed its goal of raising $10,000 on Kickstarter. The campaign supports the Starship Congress to be held in Dallas Aug...
