Pete Hill on River Profiles

Centuries of mismanagement and destructive development have gravely harmed American waterways, with significant consequences for the ecosystems and communities built around them. In River Profiles: The People Restoring Our Waterways, Pete Hill delves into the deep-rooted challenges facing American waterways,...

November 17, 2023

Stepping Ashore the Fennoscandian Shield in the Åland Archipelago

Markes E. Johnson

In the narrow Gulf of Bothnia between Finland and Sweden, the Åland Islands are dominated by exposures of the 1.6-billion-year-old Rapakivi granite. Limestone is scarce and its fossil content largely unknown to the outside world. Sixty islands are inhabited, surrounded...

July 21, 2023

Sighting of a Cambrian Island from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon

Markes E. Johnson

The rocks studied by geologists are often described in a standardized code that delimits the words employed, right down to the choice of color, grain size and fabric among other physical attributes. The code is a product of the International...

July 19, 2023

A First Wetting with the Coming El Niño in the Galápagos Islands

Markes E. Johnson

Island time includes the normal passage of life functions for a local biota in response to the daily rhythms of sun, moon, and tides as well as to the disruptions caused by big storms or other perturbances under extreme El...

April 25, 2012

James Rodger Fleming: Geoengineering's Checkered Past

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post concerns the history of climate manipulation, or geoengineering, and is written by James Rodger Fleming.

April 24, 2012

James Lawrence Powell: Are Humans Causing Global Warming? Ask Floyd Landis.

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post explains how we know humans are causing global warming, and is written by James Lawrence Powell.

April 24, 2012

Earth Day 2012: Part 2 of an Interview with Michael E. Mann

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post is part one of a two-part interview with climatologist Michael E. Mann.

April 23, 2012

Earth Day 2012: Part 1 of an Interview with Michael E. Mann

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post is part one of a two-part interview with climatologist Michael E. Mann.

March 22, 2012

Michael Mann Responds to the Wall Street Journal's Review of "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars"

“Our national dialogue about climate change remains broken. The Journal‘s decision to publish Ms. Jolis’s review has done nothing to repair it.”—Michael Mann Perhaps not surprisingly, the Wall Street Journal‘s review of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches...

February 21, 2012

VIDEO: Michael Mann on "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars"

Following up on our post on Michael Mann’s interview with the Guardian about his new book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, here is a video produced in conjunction with the story:

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Tag: Climate Science

Pete Hill on River Profiles

Stepping Ashore the Fennoscandian Shield in the Åland Archipelago

Markes E. Johnson

Sighting of a Cambrian Island from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon

Markes E. Johnson

A First Wetting with the Coming El Niño in the Galápagos Islands

Markes E. Johnson

James Rodger Fleming: Geoengineering's Checkered Past

James Lawrence Powell: Are Humans Causing Global Warming? Ask Floyd Landis.

Earth Day 2012: Part 2 of an Interview with Michael E. Mann

Earth Day 2012: Part 1 of an Interview with Michael E. Mann

Michael Mann Responds to the Wall Street Journal's Review of "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars"

VIDEO: Michael Mann on "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars"