As the Arctic darkens, Earth warms
As ice disappears, ocean traps heat
DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
SETH BORENSTEIN
Position: Staff reporter
Bumblebees are stung by honeybee sickness
WASHINGTON – Wild bumblebees worldwide are in trouble, likely contracting deadly diseases from their commercialized honeybee cousins, a new study shows.
That’s a problem even thou...
DATE: Feb 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
You call this normal?
WASHINGTON – For those who shivered through January, this may be hard to believe: Nationwide, the average temperature for the month was about normal because a warm West offset a cool East. ...
DATE: Feb 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Fed budget comes to $3M per word
The giant federal budget bill that the House passed Wednesday, the Senate passed late Thursday and President Barack Obama signed Friday will cost taxpayers nearly $3 million per word, or if ...
DATE: Jan 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
How cold was it? Not much, really
WASHINGTON – We’ve become weather wimps.
As the world warms, the United States is getting fewer bitter cold spells like the one that gripped much of the nation this week. So when ...
DATE: Jan 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
In 2013, Arctic melting slowed
But report says top of world is changing
DATE: Dec 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Astronomers declare comet dead
WASHINGTON – Comet ISON, once optimistically called the comet of the century, is dead, the victim of a way-too-close brush with the sun. It was barely a year old.
The comet, whic...
DATE: Dec 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Cooling pump on space station shuts down
WASHINGTON – NASA said Wednesday it was looking into a problem with a malfunctioning cooling pump on the International Space Station, but there was no immediate danger to the six crewmen on ...
DATE: Dec 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Minus 135.8 in Antartica sets record
WASHINGTON – Feeling chilly? Here’s cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for “soul-crushing” cold.
Try 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit below zer...
DATE: Dec 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Just how happy are you?
Experts urge Uncle Sam to measure, pursue our well-being
DATE: Dec 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
The great methane miscalculation
U.S. spewing 50% more than EPA estimates, study shows
DATE: Nov 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Comet dances with sun, death; giving mixed signals
Will it meet a fiery death – or survive – when it whips around the sun on Thursday?
The icy comet will be only about 1 million miles away from the sun’s super-hot surface during ...
DATE: Nov 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
