The great methane miscalculation
U.S. spewing 50% more than EPA estimates, study shows
DATE: Nov 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
SETH BORENSTEIN
Position: Staff reporter
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
Giant blast lights up heavens
WASHINGTON – Astronomers call it the monster. It was the biggest and brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed. Had it been closer, Earth would have been toast.
Because the blast ...
DATE: Nov 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Scientists warn of hot, sour, breathless oceans
WASHINGTON – Greenhouse gases are making the world’s oceans hot, sour and breathless, and the way those changes work together is creating a grimmer outlook for global waters, according to a ...
DATE: Nov 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Blame for typhoon toll assessed
WASHINGTON – Nature and man together cooked up the disaster in the Philippines.
Geography, meteorology, poverty, shoddy construction, a booming population, and, to a much lesser d...
DATE: Nov 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Warming report sees dangerous future
WASHINGTON – Starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease already lead to human tragedies. They’re likely to worsen as the world warms from human-made climate change,...
DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Studies rethink threat from space
WASHINGTON – Scientists studying the terrifying meteor that exploded without warning over a Russian city last winter say the threat of space rocks smashing into Earth is bigger than they tho...
DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Sandy went from ‘boring’ to killer
Communities remember one year on Tuesday
DATE: Oct 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
CO2 pollution falls 3.8% in U.S.
WASHINGTON – The United States cut its energy-related carbon dioxide pollution by 3.8 percent last year, the second biggest drop since 1990, the Department of Energy said Monday.
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DATE: Oct 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Ozone report ‘good news’
WASHINGTON – Warm air at high altitudes this September and October helped shrink the man-made ozone hole near the South Pole ever so slightly, scientists say.
The hole is an area ...
DATE: Oct 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Mid-century temps set to soar
Study estimates when cities will experience heat like never before
DATE: Oct 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
Scientists 95% certain warming is human-made
WASHINGTON – Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, human-made threat as they are that cigarettes kill.
They are as s...
DATE: Sep 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Good Earth
