Dot Earth Blog: Accounting for the Expanding Carbon Shadow from Coal-Burning Plants

Steven Davis of the University of California, Irvine, and Robert Socolow of Princeton (best known for his work dividing the climate challenge into carbon "wedges") have written "Commitment accounting of CO2 emissions," a valuable new paper in Environmental...

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Dot Earth Blog: A Closer Look at Turbulent Oceans and Greenhouse Heating

Photo A sailboat encounters a waterspout along a squall line in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives in 1984 (high resolution).Credit Andrew C. Revkin Updated, 6:30 p.m. | Earth's climate is shaped by the interplay of two complicated and turbulent...

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Dot Earth Blog: A Small Island Takes a Big Step on Ocean Conservation

Photo A map of protected marine zones that are being established around the Caribbean island of Barbuda.Credit Waitt Institute Marine life in the Caribbean has been badly hurt in recent decades by everything from an introduced pathogen that...

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Well: Legal Marijuana for Parents, but Not Their Kids

Photo Credit Stuart Bradford The Well Column Tara Parker-Pope on living well. When the antidrug educator Tim Ryan talks to students, he often asks them what they know about marijuana. "It's a plant," is a common response. But more recently,...

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Dot Earth Blog: Heading Down East for a Spell

I'm going to be in slow blogging mode through the coming week, on a long-overdue visit to Winter Harbor, Me., where my mother in law was born, resides and paints. It's mostly a sleepy backwater, but once a year things get very loud and fast. To get...

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