Sometimes it's hard to know what statistics are worthy of trust. But we shouldn't count out stats altogether ... instead, we should learn to look behind them. In this delightful, hilarious talk, data journalist Mona Chalabi shares handy tips to help question, interpret and truly understand what the numbers are saying.
Clouds from a huge volcano plunged the world into endless winter in 1816. Crops failed, famine and disease spread – and great poets and composers of the day responded with works of gloomy genius
One promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was fewer cars clogging city streets. But studies suggest the opposite: that ride-hailing companies are pulling riders off buses, subways, bicycles and their own feet and putting them in cars instead.
Ben J. Novak is a young scientist pioneering the emerging field of "de-extinction". The science of studying extinct species and applying their ecology and ge...
Ben J. Novak is a young scientist pioneering the emerging field of "de-extinction". The science of studying extinct species and applying their ecology and ge...
Poor folks in Appalachia had few prospects when the TVA made them leave home. But they did have each other.
As the world's population grows and the effects of climate change come into sharper relief, we'll have to feed more people using less arable land. Molecular biologist Jill Farrant studies a rare phenomenon that may help: "resurrection plants" -- super-resilient plants that seemingly come back from the dead. Could they hold promise for growing food in our coming hotter, drier world?
The fog killed at least 12,000 people, with around 150,000 hospitalisations and thousands of undocumented animal deaths.
Can we rebuild our broken suburbs? Ellen Dunham-Jones shares a vision of dying malls rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores re-inhabited, and endless parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands.
Michael Archer, currently a Professor and head of the Evolution of Earth & Life Sciences Research Group at University of New South Wales, became obsessed wit...
Finding solar solutions amid desert tortoises, butterflies and the nation’s biggest buildings By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis Renewable energy development is vital to reduce the threats of climate change. But can solar energy development coexist with wildlife and sensitive lands? Scientists from the University of California, Davis, are delving into that question and coming up […]
Every time a wildfire sparks somewhere in California, the same questions come up: Was it preventable and, if so, how? There’s a potential solution already in practice, on the small-scale, in Lake Tahoe.
Efforts to label the human epoch have ignited a scientific debate between geologists and environmentalists
The idea may be hard to swallow, but crickets and mealworms will likely be part of our sustainable food future
Paul Andersen introduces science for the science classroom. He starts with a brief description of Big Data and why it is important that we prepare future sc...
David Ehrenfeld is Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutg...
In this video, Ask This Old House plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey takes host Kevin O'Connor on a tour of Germany with an eye toward renewable e...
David Ehrenfeld is Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutg...
The nearly 80-year-old tax has been our most successful tool for conserving habitat and restoring species, but a long decline in hunter numbers could threaten its future success.
The juvenile sperm whale was found in the Murcia region of Spain, and its death has spurred a local campaign to combat plastic pollution
