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Affordable and green go together in home building

Fernando Pages builds homes that are affordable and green without the need for subsidies. Pages explains why green building is really advanced building, and how affordable and green go together.

Warming climate: Which ice sheets melt first

The East Antarctic ice sheet may be at the end of the Earth, says geophysicist Donald Blankenship, but it's much more important than its distance implies. Hear Blankenship talk about his concern over melting ice sheets.

Holding out for those last few lines of data

The weather cleared, the plane flew, the data was captured!

Melissa Schultz on link between pharmaceutical waste and fish health

Environmental chemist Melissa Schultz talks about how medications we excrete and flush down the toilet are winding up in rivers, possibly harming wildlife.

Robert Waide: Humans and nature are coupled

Robert Waide said Planet Earth is "the ultimate coupled human-nature system."

Robin Bell: Hidden Antarctic mountains and lakes

Robin Bell said at last we are able to mount flights out of our camp on the ice for scientific research in Antarctica.

Janaki Alavalapati on forests’ renewable energy potential

Janaki Alavalapati says that forest biomass - small diameter trees and brush cleared from forests - can be used to create liquid fuel.

Joel Cohen does the math on human migration worldwide

Every year, millions of people migrate from one country or continent to another. Joel Cohen uses mathematical models to map patterns in human migration.

Data, data, data. How we dream of data!

Plans on paper and realities in Antarctica have proven to be two different things. And we use data, data, data.

James Hansen Science Communicator of the Year

James Hansen was elected as EarthSky Science Communicator of the Year for his contribution to the public understanding of vital science issues and concepts in 2008.