Environment

SXSW Eco attendees at the welcome dinner at Springdale Farms in East Austin on Oct. 6.

SXSW Eco, Hub Of Environmental And Foodie Fervor

1:24pm October 15, 2014

by Eliza Barclay

Like its parent music, film and interactive festival, this conference is all about networking, which means parties. The young crowd takes full advantage of Austin's food trucks and bars.

Millennials seem to prioritize the environment, but may want to dissociate from the "treehugger" baggage of the term "environmentalist."

Environment

Millennials: We Help The Earth But Don't Call Us Environmentalists

8:10pm October 14, 2014

by Chris Benderev

Millennials are the most likely to favor traditionally pro-environment policies and believe climate change is man-made. But they are also the least likely generation to identify as environmentalists.

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The Tricky Nature Of Putting Science On Trial

6:33pm October 11, 2014

The appeal for seven Italian scientists convicted of manslaughter after downplaying the possibility of an imminent earthquake has began. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with reporter David Wolman about the trial.

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Miami Uses Pumps To Battle Flooding From Sea Level Rise

8:05am October 10, 2014

by Greg Allen

To combat sea level rise, one of the consequences of climate change, Miami Beach is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to install new storm sewers and pumps.

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Love Pine Nuts? Then Protect Pine Forests

9:58am October 09, 2014

by Dan Charles

An expensive delicacy among nuts, pine nuts are foraged — not farmed — from distant forests. In some places, the delicate ecosystems that produce the nuts are disappearing.

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Cindy Minnix waits for a bus in a flooded street on Oct. 18, 2012, in Miami Beach. A changing climate is making floods related to high tides more frequent, scientists say.

Climate Change Worsens Coastal Flooding From High Tides

9:58am October 09, 2014

by Christopher Joyce

Flooding from extreme tidal swings was once just a rare nuisance for coastal cities. But rising sea levels have increased the frequency of these nuisance floods as much as tenfold since the 1960s.

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Yoram Bauman jokes about "hyperinflation in hell" and on earth. Case in point: the Zimbabwe hundred-trillion-dollar note.

So A Global Economist Walks Into A Comedy Club ...

8:49am October 08, 2014

by Eleanor Klibanoff

Yoram Bauman is an economist. And a stand-up comic. Who makes jokes about climate change and global development, among other topics. At the Inter-American Development Bank this week, he killed!

Protests Disrupt Telescope Groundbreaking In Hawaii

3:40am October 08, 2014

by Lauren Hodges

After years of planning, Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope broke ground Tuesday. But a group interrupted the ceremony, angry about the telescope's location on a mountain held sacred by Native Hawaiians.

The Bronx may be up and the Battery down, but Central Park is where an amazing wealth of different sorts of microbes play.

Soil Doctors Hit Pay Dirt In Manhattan's Central Park

9:14am October 02, 2014

by Christopher Joyce

The urban oasis boasts about 170,000 different types of microbes, recent dirt samples show. That diversity is comparable to a tropical rain forest. About 2,000 species are found only in the park.

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Melbourne visitors and residents took to the waters of Australia's St. Kilda Beach in January 2013 to escape a fierce heat wave.

When Can A Big Storm Or Drought Be Blamed On Climate Change?

8:52pm October 01, 2014

by Christopher Joyce

Scientists wince when people blame every big tropical cyclone, heat wave or drought on a shifting climate. But now some are trying to figure out just what the evidence for such a link would be.

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