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Safety of work crews on major industrial projects
Sipke Mennes talks about what it’s like to be responsible for the safety of large crews of workers on a Shell industrial construction project.
November 8, 2010
Frozen Zoo closer to saving endangered species
At the Frozen Zoo scientists have now created stem cells from frozen skin cells of a highly endangered monkey.
November 8, 2010
Wrasse to fight salmon lice
Researchers use a biological weapon to fight salmon lice. One of the methods being discussed is the use of a small fish, the wrasse.
November 2, 2010
EarthSky grant from National Science Foundation
A new grant from the National Science Foundation to EarthSky on programming for Spanish speakers in the U.S. Visit our Spanish website at espanol.earthsky.org!
November 1, 2010
World’s largest tropical ice sheet is shrinking
Thompson says the Quelccaya tropical ice sheet in Peru's Andes mountains is bigger than 10 thousand football fields – but it's shrinking.
November 1, 2010
Oil and gas industry workplace safety
Steve Beckett spoke with EarthSky about some of his company's methods for keeping people safe in their oil and gas production.
November 1, 2010
Biodiversity targets to slow loss by 2020
Delegates from nearly 200 countries met for two weeks in Nagoya, Japan, in late October 2010 to work out a set of targets that aim to slow biodiversity loss.
November 1, 2010
New elastic materials for renewable wave energy
New elastic materials that can generate electricity may help make wave power cheaper to develop. Read more about the fabric here.
October 25, 2010
Rivers in trouble around the world
The world's rivers are in trouble, according to a new study that analyzed human impacts on Earth's rivers. Read more here about rivers in trouble.
October 25, 2010
Monitoring Earth’s forests from space with Curtis Woodcock
Images from the Landsat series of satellites tell a story of how Earth's forests have changed. Learn more about monitoring Earth's forests from space.
October 25, 2010
