Earth Science
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What's So Hot About Chili Peppers?
An American ecologist travels through the Bolivian forest to answer burning questions about the spice
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Underwater Volcano Erupts Near Tonga
A team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration caught the first ever video recording of an underwater volcano erupting.
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Environmental Film Festival Review: RiverWebs
Monday evening I saw another film from the Environmental Film Festival, a screening of RiverWebs at the Japan Information and Culture Center
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Picture of the Week—Lake Disappointment
The colors in this picture remind me of Vincent van Gogh, but it’s not a painting
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A Melting Antarctica Could Bring an Underwater Smithsonian
Some unknown day in the future, ongoing climate change virtually assures the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will melt away
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A Link Between Dams and Earthquakes?
The earth is big, and so are the tectonic plates—it doesn’t seem possible that anything humans could do to the earth would have an effect on those plates
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Don’t Drink the Water
The AP reported earlier this week that the Indian pharmaceutical industry is spewing a drug soup into the waters of a town near Hyderabad
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Picture of the Week—Snowy Peaks
The recent cold spell is getting a lot of attention, but we should all remember that it could be worse
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A Welcome to the Obama Administration’s Scientist Appointees
Last month, then president-elect Obama devoted one of his weekly addresses to science
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An Antarctic Scientist's Advice for Surviving the Cold
Sure, it’s zero degrees outside. But you can handle it
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Missing: Arctic Rubber Duckies
Missing: 90 yellow rubber duckies dropped into a moulin (a tubular hole) in a melting Greenland glacier approximately three months ago
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Clean Coal Advice From Doctor Who
We have gotten conflicting information on clean coal—that mythic technology that would let us burn all the coal we want without any carbon emissions
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