U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement two days after causing a kerfuffle (a real word!) with the invented word covfefe. Here’s what Pulitzer-Prize-winning New Yorker contributor Elizabeth Kolbert has to […]
One of the world’s smartest and most popular scientists — check him out (below) on Twitter — Neil DeGrasse Tyson has issued a four-minute video to Americans about the future […]
Happy Earth Day 2017 Are you Marching for Science today ? Wherever you are (London, New York, DC, Berlin) Find a venue, go to the Facebook page, get active locally. (click […]
“Canopy Meg” Lowman is a world-class scientist – and climber – who has spent years in the canopy of tropical forests, discovering new species and how to adapt to life […]
Earth Heroes: They’ve traveled from Antarctica to the Amazon, they are activists, scientists, researchers, supremely talented writers and photographers, people who want to make a difference — and they are! […]
A sequel to An Inconvenient Truth – the 2006 documentary produced by former VP Al Gore and seen by a worldwide audience – premieres July 28 worldwide as An Inconvenient […]
A gratifying moment came last week for the rusty patched bumblebee – a highly threatened species of native bee in the U.S. that is an essential pollinator in such crops […]
Coming up: The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital—March 14-26—presents over 150 films in Washington, DC area locations as wide-ranging as museums, embassies, universities and local theatres. Don’t miss […]
Welcome Summer –– and the books that beckon us to sit in a comfortable chair, dream, explore other places and other worlds. This month’s selection is the first of several […]
