I'm on the Asahi Glass Foundation mailing list. Despite being made of glass, this is a serious foundation, most famous for its annual bestowing of the Blue Planet Prize.
When I say mailing list, I mean this literally -- you get paper-based mail. The interesting thing that, despite being based in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, my mail from…
Aggressive climate action ASAP (left figure) minimizes future warming. Inaction (right figure) results in catastrophic levels of warming, 9°F over much of U.S. (Via ClimateProgress, IPCC)
If the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report didn't scare you, a study in the journal Nature should do the trick. It may have a dull title ("The projected timing of climate…
Al Bartlett in January 2005. Photo by Marty Caivano/Daily Camera
Al Bartlett, Boulder physics professor emeritus who dedicated his post-retirement career to preserving Boulder and trying to get people not as smart as him (which was pretty much everybody) to understand the exponential function and its environmental and social impacts, died over the weekend. Brittany Anas,…
They found Randy Udall yesterday -- he had been hiking alone on a remote trail up in Wyoming's Wind River Range, a place he knew well. Poles were still in hand, the Denver Post reports.
"Randy left this Earth doing what he loved most: hiking in his most favorite mountain range in the world," the Udall…
The U.S. Department of Interior's decision to limit land leases on oil shale — a euphemism for rock mixed with kerogen with the energy content of french fries — was wise. I wrote up a story pitch after the Bush Administration decision to vastly expand oil shale leasing in 2008; it offers some perspective on the…