Earth

  1. Earth

    Severe heat and cold top list of deadly natural hazards

    Data compilation by region, type of hazards shows deaths from more frequent events accumulate into significant numbers. Lightning strikes also high on the list.

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  2. Earth

    Solar wind pushes atmospheric breathing

    New analyses of satellite data show that cycles of expansion and contraction are tied to changes in the solar wind.

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  3. Earth

    Improved Cars: Chu on It

    Hey Detroit: Lighten up, the incoming Energy Secretary recommends.

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  4. Tech

    Holiday Gifts: Blog Sites

    Sample other blogs and let us know of notables that we missed that are also worth sharing.

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  5. Earth

    Reef record suggests impending Sumatra quakes

    Evidence of seafloor rise and fall shows southern Sumatra is at start of new earthquake cycle.

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  6. Chemistry

    ENV Tidbits: Corals, nano concerns, and more

    News nuggets on climate-imperiled corals, nanotech worries, and soft drinks bearing pesticides.

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  7. Earth

    Biological Cadre Turns Political

    Conservation scientists lobby the presidential-transition team to select an Interior Secretary who respects and defends science.

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  8. Space

    Meteorites could have thickened primordial soup

    New experiments show that extraterrestrial impacts that occurred early in our planet's history could have created the raw materials for life.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Honeybee CSI: Why dead bodies can’t be found

    Virus could explain one symptom of colony collapse.

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  10. Life

    Protect biodiversity hot spots and the rest will follow

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  11. Earth

    The Hunt for Habitable Planets

    Here and now, a new suite of small telescopes are poised to look for Earthlike planets beyond the solar system.

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  12. Earth

    Methane even escapes from freezing permafrost

    An extended field season reveals that the autumn freeze in the arctic squeezes methane from some high-latitude wetland soils, a match even for summertime methane release.

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