EarthSky Communications has won an Award of Distinction in the 13th annual Communicator Awards. Read more about the recognition here.

Ethno-botanist Darron Collins talks about rainforest logging. It may be more sustainable, but it'll take much more to save the rainforests. Read more.

Partha Dasgupta told Earth & Sky that, in the developing world, natural resources aren't just amenities. Instead, they're economic necessities.

Most stars reside in a galaxy. In 2006, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to study over 5,000 stars found in the space between galaxies in the Virgo cluster. The lack of iron in these stars indicated that they may have come from small galaxies that got ripped apart when they passed too close to larger galaxies.

Older dwarf stars, such as Proxima Centauri, have fewer flares and starspots (the stellar equivalent of sunspots). Read more about older dwarf stars here.

The astronomers who accomplished this research likened the effect to being able to look at the quasars under a microscope.

In 2006, astronomers detected 'vampire stars' in a star cluster called 47 Tucanae. The cluster is thought to have formed 12 billion years ago. But some stars in 47 Tucanae appear only 1 to 2 billion years old. Elena Sabbi of the Space Telescope Science Institute thinks these stars really are old, but appear young because they've been munching on neighboring stars.

Double centaurs are a centaur plus a compaion. Centaurs are icy planetoids orbiting the sun between the outer planets Jupiter and Neptune. Read more.

Selected radio programs from the Earth & Sky science radio series have been incorporated into a traveling exhibition called "Too Small to See" at Epcot.

Scientists are now speaking of what they call the "coupled human-environment system." It's a new way of thinking about the relationship between nature and human beings.