Permfrost Retreat in Canada and Sweden
In one of the scarier predictions about oncoming climate change, warming permafrost releases vast amounts of methane, a much more …
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Crazy Heart: A Film
Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhal turn in very nice performances in Crazy Heart, another of so many movies/stories of American …
Galapagos Fur Seals on the Move
As one of those who have been to the Galapagos Islands and had his mental landscape moved, I’m always interested …
NOAA Climate Services Site
Very good news yesterday that NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is proposing to create a Climate Service division …
White Ribbon: A Film: Is There a Who in the Whodunit?
I was glad to read after seeing Michael Haneke’s new film, White Ribbon, that the crowd at the Cannes’ premier, …
Avatar: The Movie
Avatar, the technically amazing, richly conceived and executed movie, will not be to everyone’s taste. It is tasty enough, however, …
The Secret Life of Words: A Film
In The Secret Life of Words, one of the best films you’ve never heard of, Spanish director Isabel Coixet, guides …
Gardens of Stone: A Film
For some, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) is the best film made about the Vietnam War: for some it …
How Stuff Works
In my new career as an explorer of podcasts available to the iPhone — and so a welcome step away …
Salgado: Misery and Art
The demons of confusion are always with me at large-scale photo exhibitions of Sebastiao Salgado. They didn’t fail to come …
Climate: Hot and Getting Hotter
From Climate Progress Fast on the heels of the hottest June to October on record, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space …
Got Milk?
“The engineering firm CDM has come up with a more sustainable way to neutralize highly polluted soil. Instead of digging …