Large honeybee die-off sounds ecological alarm
Beekeepers lose 42% of colonies in U.S.
DATE: May 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
SETH BORENSTEIN
Position: Staff reporter
Hot times are ahead of us
Migration trends mean global warming will impact more people
DATE: May 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Study: Global warming to push 1 in 13 species to extinction
WASHINGTON – Global warming will eventually push 1 out of every 13 species on Earth into extinction, a new study projects.
It won’t quite be as bad in North America, where only 1 ...
DATE: Apr 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Study blames global warming for 75 percent of very hot days
WASHINGTON – If you find yourself sweating out a day that is monstrously hot, chances are you can blame humanity. A new report links three out of four such days to man’s effects on climate. ...
DATE: Apr 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Study links swarm of quakes in Texas to natural gas drilling
WASHINGTON – With real-time monitors, scientists have linked a swarm of small earthquakes west of Fort Worth, Texas, to nearby natural gas wells and wastewater injection.
In 84 da...
DATE: Apr 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Strong solar storm may bring problems
WASHINGTON – A severe solar storm smacked Earth with a surprisingly big geomagnetic jolt Tuesday, potentially affecting power grids and GPS tracking while pushing the colorful northern light...
DATE: Mar 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Google AI program is game for learning
New software teaches itself how to beat many Atari games
DATE: Feb 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Winter weather both toasty and cold: A tale of 2 nations
WASHINGTON – It may be hard to believe for a country that’s shivering from Maine to Miami, but 2015 has gotten off to a rather toasty start.
Last month was the second warmest Janu...
DATE: Feb 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Is fracking causing small earthquakes?
How wastewater is injected, geology are some determinants
DATE: Feb 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
West will get hotter, drier
Decades-long ‘megadroughts’ predicted for region
DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Values vs. facts
Wide divide between what public, scientists think
DATE: Feb 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Poll shows giant gap between what public, scientists think
WASHINGTON – The American public and U.S. scientists are light-years apart on science issues. And 98 percent of surveyed scientists say it’s a problem that we don’t know what they’re talking...
DATE: Jan 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
