This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dr. Patrick Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute and author of the book Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything, offers a current assessment of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Shortly after the launch of Google Earth, a band of oceanographers led by legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle stomped into Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. “Hey look, you can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On a particularly smoggy day, when the Air Quality Index (AQI) in a city reaches a value over 300, public health officials consider it an emergency. The AQI is designed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Scientists are certain that as the impacts of a warming atmosphere bite harder, small islands will be the first to suffer as a result of rising seas or more intense…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The (TKCP) is Woodland Park Zoo’s signature international long-term field conservation program. Director Dr. Lisa Dabek began TKCP in 1996 as a conservation research study to determine the status of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Spending too much time using Facebook could cause users to show signs of ‘virtual autism’ that has similar personality traits to those on the disorder spectrum, according to a study.…
Millions of tons of industrial waste in New York City wind up in landfills every year. But there’s an organization called Big Reuse in Brooklyn, New York that’s taking some…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Total transit ridership, not just per capita, is declining today, having seen a 4.4 percent drop nationwide from 2014 to 2016 and a 3.0 percent drop in the first seven…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The company’s San Francisco office will have the largest ground-source heat pump system installation in North America, using the heat from the surrounding ground to power the building’s climate control–and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In September, I traveled to Splash’s office in Kolkata, India to be part of the Program Quality Summit with Splash staff from the U.S., Nepal, India, and Ethiopia. The purpose…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There’s a buzz on as world leaders gather in Bonn to push forward the global climate-action agenda: the world is awash in private capital — we just have to go get it.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Years ago, early in Jagdeesh Rao Puppala’s career, he ran into some trouble with the law in rural western India. He had just returned from a small event where some eminent…