Ocean acidification is a change in ocean pH that’s happening due to increased emissions of CO2 in our modern world.
Beth Lebwohl researches, writes and helps produce science content in audio and video formats for EarthSky. She is one of the authors on EarthSky.org, a script-writer for our podcasts, and helps host our English science podcasts in 90-second, 8-minute and 22-minute formats. Beth came to EarthSky in 2006 from the American Museum of Natural History's Department of Astrophysics, where she was surrounded by some of the greatest telescope-building, equation-wielding, code-writing physicists of our time. And they made her think . . . this science thing . . . it's pretty cool.
Posts by Beth
Mar 22, 2012
Human World
12 Comments
Watching your flat screen TV uses water. So does running your computer. Fishman talked about water use that we might not think about – or even know about.
Feb 03, 2012
Human World
4 Comments
A paper suggests that you can determine what a person finds beautiful just by examining his or her brain state.
Jan 17, 2012
Human World
4 Comments
Nina Fedoroff: “One of the biggest challenges is how to raise the grain crops, the soybeans, the corn, the wheat that will thrive in a much harsher climate.”
Jan 11, 2012
Human World
10 Comments
Scientists used to think a cold worked just like a flu, which attacks and kills cells inside the body. But that’s not so, says Ackerman.
Jan 02, 2012
Press
8 Comments
As of early January 2012, EarthSky en Espanol had earned 18,000 friends on Facebook … and counting!
Dec 31, 2011
Earth
7 Comments
Journalist Kieran Mulvaney says he fell under the spell of polar bears a decade ago, in Alaska on assignment. His new book is called The Great White Bear.
Nov 28, 2011
Human World
7 Comments
Rosenzweig talked about how climate change will affect – and is already affecting – many of the world’s most important cities.
Nov 23, 2011
Human World
8 Comments
Our brain cells munch on themselves, to keep the body from starving. A new study sheds light on the role this plays in regulating appetite.
The author of Demon Fish talked to EarthSky about what scientists are learning about sharks.
