South Carolina Threatens Washington Over Cleanup

AIKEN, S.C. — The Energy Department began cleaning up an environmental nightmare at the old Savannah River Site nuclear weapons plant here in 1996 and promised a bright future: Within a quarter-century, officials said, they would turn liquid radioactive...

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Dot Earth Blog: Giving Musical Thanks on Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving (and Hannukah), here's a quick note — and song — of thanks to you for reading this blog, for attending to the issues and opportunities facing humanity as we come of age on a finite planet and, for those who comment here, trying to maintain...

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Bits Blog: The Vaccination Effect: 100 Million Cases of Contagious Disease Prevented

Vaccination programs for children have prevented more than 100 million cases of serious contagious disease in the United States since 1924, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The research, led by scientists...

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A Part of Utah Built on Coal Wonders What Comes Next

PRICE, Utah — For generations, coal has been the lifeblood of this mineral-rich stretch of eastern Utah. Mining families proudly recall all the years they toiled underground. Supply companies line the town streets. Above the road that winds toward...

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New Clues May Change Buddha’s Date of Birth

Ira Block/National Geographic Archaeologists have uncovered a series of ancient temples within the Maya Devi Temple in Nepal. In traditional narratives, Queen Maya Devi, the mother of Buddha, gave birth to him while holding on to a branch of a...

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Bits Blog: The Vaccination Effect: 100 Million Cases of Contagious Disease Prevented

Vaccination programs for children have prevented more than 100 million cases of serious contagious disease in the United States since 1924, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The research, led by scientists...

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Fred Kavli, Benefactor of Science Prizes, Dies at 86

Fred Kavli, a physicist who left Norway for California as a young man and made millions manufacturing sensors for appliances, automobiles and aircraft, then late in life began donating much of his fortune to science, establishing a major prize he intended...

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Monterey Journal: With Extra Anchovies, Deluxe Whale Watching

By Sean Patrick Farrell Whales and Anchovies: A spike in the anchovy population in California's Monterey Bay has made for exciting wildlife viewing as humpback whales, dolphins, sea lions and pelicans swarm to feed on the small fish. MONTEREY,...

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Deals at Climate Meeting Advance Global Effort

WARSAW — Two weeks of United Nations climate talks ended Saturday with a pair of last-minute deals keeping alive the hope that a global effort can ward off a ruinous rise in temperatures. Delegates agreed to the broad outlines of a proposed system...

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Captain of Seized Greenpeace Ship Speaks From Russia

Anatoly Maltsev/European Pressphoto Agency Peter Willcox, right, the captain of a Greenpeace ship boarded by Russian commandos in September, was released on bail. MOSCOW — The Russian commandos who boarded a Greenpeace ship in the Arctic two months...

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Selling That New-Man Feeling

One afternoon a few months ago, a 45-year-old sales representative named Mike called "The Dr. Harry Fisch Show," a weekly men's health program on the Howard Stern channel on Sirius XM Radio, where no male medical or sexual issue goes unexplored. ...

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James H. Steele, Pioneer in Veterinary Public Health, Dies at 100

James H. Steele, a veterinarian whose pioneering efforts to prevent the spread of disease from animals to people led him to be called "the father of veterinary public health," died on Nov. 10 in Houston. He was 100. His death was announced by several...

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Bits: Ad Takes Off Online: Less Doll, More Awl

Who said girls want to dress in pink and play with dolls, especially when they could be building Rube Goldberg machines instead? That is the message of a video that has gone viral, viewed more than 6.4 million times since it was posted Monday on YouTube...

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Font of Natural Energy in the Philippines, Crippled by Nature

ORMOC, the Philippines — Clouds of steam surge from fissures in the earth along the beds of mountain streams here that splash down slopes carpeted with coconut palm forests, hints of the enormous source of renewable energy that lies underground. ...

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Frederick Sanger, 95, Two-Time Winner of Nobel and Pioneer in Genetics, Dies

Frederick Sanger, a British biochemist whose discoveries about the chemistry of life led to the decoding of the human genome and to the development of new drugs like human growth hormone, earning him two Nobel Prizes, a distinction held by only three...

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Scores of Tornadoes Slam Midwest States

Severe storms moved through the Midwest on Sunday, leveling towns, killing at least six people in Illinois and injuring dozens more, and causing thousands of power failures across the region. Officials warned of a fast-moving, deadly storm system...

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Patenting Their Discoveries Does Not Pay Off for Most Universities, a Study Says

Universities try to cash in on discoveries — gene splicing, brain chemistry, computer-chip design — but the great majority of them fail to turn their research into a source of income, according to a new study from the Brookings Institution. Research...

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Colorado Governor Proposes Strict Limits on Greenhouse Gas Leaks From Drilling

Gov. John W. Hickenlooper of Colorado proposed on Monday tough new limits on leaks of methane and other gases from well sites and storage tanks. Supporters called the limits, which would exceed existing federal rules, the most sweeping in the nation....

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