Scientists believe that simple land management techniques can increase the rate at which carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored in soils. By Sally Neas Reprinted with permission from Yes! Magazine under a Creative Commons License …
By Ellen Cantarow and Alison Rose Levy Reprinted with permission from Tomdispatch.com It was a beautiful spring day and, in the control room of the nuclear reactor, the workers decided to deactivate the security system for a systems test. As they started to do so, however, the floor of the reactor began to tremble….
When our kids were little, we lived in an Eichler suburb in south Palo Alto. Every house on the block had a 6-to-7-foot fence around it. In the year that we lived there we rarely saw a neighbor. It was eery. One day, while mowing our lawn, I had a revelation: Our market system…
Explanation of video from YouTube posting: Watch Earth roll by through the perspective of European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gerst in this six-minute timelapse video from space. Combining 12,500 images taken by Alexander during his six-month Blue Dot mission on the International Space Station this Ultra High Definition video shows the best our…