Dot Earth Blog: White House Stresses Widespread Energy Progress Ahead of New Climate Rule

The White House has released a report charting progress on several energy fronts that is clearly aimed at setting the stage ahead of President Obama's expected announcement next Monday of the first regulations restricting carbon dioxide from existing...

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Phys Ed: To Age Well, Walk

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Regular exercise, including walking, significantly reduces the chance that a frail older person will become physically disabled, according to one of the largest and longest-running studies...

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Dot Earth Blog: On World Fish Migration Day, Recalling When America’s Rivers Ran Silver

[If you're visiting thanks to Tom Friedman's kind Dot Earth mention in his column on acting with a long-term perspective, here's a link to the piece he's quoting from.] John Waldman is a Queens College biology professor and author focused on the bountiful...

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Bits Blog: My T-Shirt Told Me to Take a Chill Pill

My T-shirt tells me things. My heart rate, for instance: 62 beats a minute. And my breathing: 17 breaths a minute. Unless I drink too many cappuccinos or a deadline looms. Then my T-shirt tells me my that heart rate has jumped to the high 80s, my breathing...

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Dot Earth Blog: On World Fish Migration Day, Recalling When America’s Rivers Ran Silver

[If you're visiting thanks to Tom Friedman's kind Dot Earth mention in his column on acting with a long-term perspective, here's a link to the piece he's quoting from.] John Waldman is a Queens College biology professor and author focused on the bountiful...

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Dot Earth Blog: Gavin Schmidt on Why Climate Models are Wrong, and Valuable

I'm overdue to draw your attention to two fresh, and very different, discussions of climate science by Gavin Schmidt, the longtime climate modeler at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. First is his conversation with Perrin Ireland, a science...

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Well: Remembering, as an Extreme Sport

Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times SAN DIEGO – The last match of the tournament had all the elements of a classic showdown, pitting style versus stealth, quickness versus deliberation, and the world's foremost card virtuoso against its premier...

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Dot Earth Blog: Arrests Made in Assault on Park Redwood Trees

Earlier this year I wrote about a spate of criminal assaults on redwood trees in a California park — all targeting the bulbous growths called burls that are prized by woodworkers and furniture makers. Two arrests have now been made, according to the...

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Dot Earth Blog: The Role of Education and Health Care in Fostering Sustainable Motherhood

Sustainable motherhood? In stitching these words together on Mother's Day weekend, my goal is to stress the value of education and health care for young women as a means of fostering sustainable human progress in poor regions like sub-Saharan Africa....

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Dot Earth Blog: The Role of Education and Health Care in Fostering Sustainable Motherhood

Sustainable motherhood? In stitching these words together on Mother's Day weekend, my goal is to stress the value of education and health care for young women as a means of fostering sustainable human progress in poor regions like sub-Saharan Africa....

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City Room: It’s Gadgets vs. Eyeballs as Two Species of Bird-Watchers Clash

Pete Dunne and Benjamin Van Doren are devout birders who share a passion for identifying rare species, recording their sightings and competing in birding events known as Big Days. But as they prepared for the biggest Big Day of all, Saturday's World...

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Dot Earth Blog: Vatican Dialogue: ‘Man is a Technical Giant and an Ethical Child’

VATICAN CITY — "Birth control." Those words were uttered on Friday just 99 minutes into a novel four-day meeting of scientists, theologians, economists and other analysts convened at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences here.* The phrase — not heard often...

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Dot Earth Blog: Vatican Dialogue: ‘Man is a Technical Giant and an Ethical Child’

VATICAN CITY — "Birth control." Those words were uttered on Friday just 99 minutes into a novel four-day meeting of scientists, theologians, economists and other analysts convened at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences here. The phrase — not heard often...

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Well: Helmets Do Little to Help Moderate Infant Skull Flattening, Study Finds

Pediatricians have long urged parents to put newborns to sleep on their backs to help prevent sudden infant death syndrome. While the practice undoubtedly has saved lives, it also has increased the numbers of babies with flattened skulls. Roughly one...

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