6.‘Otherwise, They’ll Gurgle’ November 1980-September 1981 The meeting ended Friday morning. On Tuesday, four days later, Ronald Reagan was elected president. And Rafe Pomerance soon found himself wondering whether what had seemed to […]
5/8 Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
5.‘We Are Flying Blind’ October 1980 Two days before Halloween, Rafe Pomerance traveled to a cotton-candy castle on the Gulf of Mexico, near St. Petersburg, Fla, that locals called the Pink Palace. The […]
3-4/8 Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
3.Between Catastrophe and Chaos July 1979 The scientists summoned by Jule Charney to judge the fate of civilization arrived on July 23, 1979, with their wives, children and weekend bags at a three-story […]
2/8 Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
By Nathaniel Rich Photographs and Videos by George Steinmetz August, 2018 2.The Whimsies of The Invisible World Spring 1979 There was a brown velvet love seat in the living room of James and […]
1/8 Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
By Nathaniel Rich Photographs and Videos by George Steinmetz August, 2018 Editor’s Note This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the […]
If El Ninos happen twice as often in the future, what happens to seabirds?
May 7, 2018, UC Davis Brandt’s cormorant. Credit: Annie Schmidt/UC Davis More frequent El Niño events in the future may have surprising impacts on seabirds and some fish species, according to a study […]
Innovation is the solution to climate change
Lamar Smith, for the Express-News Sunday, May 6, 2018 Robotic fish like Sofi, unveiled by MIT scientists, could be essential to protect marine life threatened by human activity and climate change. […]