Talking Climate Change With Your Kids
Where do we come from? How come everything exists? Why are we alive? Sometimes kids won’t ask you these questions, but what will you do when they start showing up?
Continue ReadingWhere do we come from? How come everything exists? Why are we alive? Sometimes kids won’t ask you these questions, but what will you do when they start showing up?
Continue ReadingThis month’s literary SFF column looks at two very different books. One features a gentle apocalypse. The other is a gothic fantasy with a nest of mysteries.
Continue ReadingEven superheroes know the environment is worth saving. Take a break, laugh with John Oliver, learn the science of climate change, and enjoy our beautiful world.
Continue ReadingOne of the biggest annoyances to me is when people point to cold temperatures as “proof” against global warming. Here’s a simple experiment!
Continue ReadingDr. Greg Johnson of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a lead author on the 2200-page IPCC Working Group I report in June, was moved to create beautiful and brief summaries from the report: He wrote 19 haiku and illustrated each one with a watercolor painting. (He also posts on Facebook in haiku.)
Continue ReadingAlmost eight months after Hurricane Sandy, the Jet Star roller coaster is gone from the waters off of Seaside Heights. But the storm is still an everyday presence.
Continue ReadingIn the conversation about climate change, the image that comes to mind for most people is the polar bear. Watching a clip of a polar bear swimming and swimming with no ice floes in sight probably swayed as many people …
Continue ReadingThe United States’ Landsat Earth observing program is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. This program has allowed scientists from all over the world to observe landscape changes on a massive scale through detailed photography of the Earth’s surface. To celebrate this historic anniversary, NASA is offering the chance for six lucky members of the American public to receive a chronicle of Landsat images from the past 40 years. Learn more about Landsat and enter NASA’s contest.
Continue ReadingJust in time for you to order your plants and seeds for this growing season! This month the U.S. Department of Agriculture publicized their new plant hardiness zone map. This is the first update to the map since 1990, but …
Continue ReadingIf, like me, you’re concerned about the state of our world from an environmental standpoint, you might be pondering a New Year’s resolution that has more to do with making a change on a global scale rather that on your bathroom scale. Implement some – or all – of these ideas to make a positive […]
Continue ReadingAs a girl, I read the Little House on the Prairie series and dreamed of a time when people cooked over an open fire and gave handmade gifts. As an adult, I actually hoped that Y2K would bring a change. …
Continue ReadingAs a girl, I read the Little House on the Prairie series and dreamed of a time when people cooked over an open fire and gave handmade gifts. As an adult, I actually hoped that Y2K would bring a change. While we called it a “scare” back then, few would have guessed Y2K could actually […]
Continue Reading(Reposted with minor changes from Friday.) Today is the 10th of October 2010, or 10/10/10, or 101010: a binary day! Of course, it’s also a decimal day too, and one of the few that is the same no matter which …
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