TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Will Canada's Tar Sands Destroy the Global Climate? NEW YORK--Further development of Alberta's famous oil sands will be neither the climate disaster that activists fear nor the energy security panacea that proponents suggest it is, the Council on Foreign Relations concludes in a new report. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Severe Weather Psychology [Below is the original script. But a few changes may have been made during the recording of this audio podcast.]We’re in the middle of storm season in the U.S. bookended between spring tornadoes and summer hurricanes. And this is a special two-part 60-Second Psych on the surprising ways humans react to and deal with severe weather. [More] rss.sciam.com |
The Great Electric Car Quandary: How to Build a Charging Infrastructure Before Demand Grows Which came first: the electric car or the infrastructure needed to power the electric car? That's one of the key questions that carmakers will have to answer if they ever hope to fill up the freeways with their plug-in vehicles. [More] rss.sciam.com |
U.S. protection for endangered penguins still pending There are no wild penguins in the U.S. But many penguin species worldwide are in danger--some dramatically--and all populations are dropping fast . What to do, what to do? [More] rss.sciam.com |
Could ocean acidification deafen dolphins? As more and more carbon dioxide enters the Earth's atmosphere, oceans are becoming more acidic . In fact, this acidification has been blamed for everything from killing off coral to aiding algae and even super-sizing fish ear bones . But the changing marine chemistry may also be altering the deep sea's acoustic environment, according to a new paper, published online Sunday in Nature Geoscience reports ( Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group), making it much noisier for the animals that depend on sound to navigate the watery depths. [More] rss.sciam.com |