Sharks, Art and Conservation
There’s a huge list of bizarre things more likely to kill you than a shark: lightning, falling coconuts, hippos, even vending machines (think twice before shaking that machine that just ate your...
View ArticleGreen Means Something Different Here
Mark Tercek is CEO of The Nature Conservancy. But he hasn't always been an environmentalist. In 2008, he left his job as a managing director at Goldman Sachs to lead the Conservancy. He joined me to...
View ArticleA Researcher's View of Greenland's Big Thaw
There's nothing like a bird's-eye view to really put big events into perspective...or is there?On the heels of a giant iceberg that broke off Greenland's Petermann glacier, NASA last week announced...
View ArticleWeek in Review: Taking Stock
I don't know about you, but I've got a bit of Olympic fever. While most of us are focusing on whether the U.S. can get more medals than China, Mass Sierra Club and Environmental Entrepreneurs have been...
View ArticleTechnology: Problem or Solution?
Dr. Jesse Ausubel is Director of the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University, a Vice President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and an adjunct scientist at the Woods Hole...
View ArticleRust Tide in Buzzards Bay: More Questions Than Answers
News of a “rust tide” in Buzzards Bay made headlines earlier this week. Reading a handful of the stories left me with an incomplete and jumbled picture of what’s going on. Is "rust tide" just another...
View ArticleWeek in Review: Ocean Health Index, and a Few Surprises
If last week was all about Mars, this week is all about the ocean.The top story is a new Ocean Health Index. An international team of scientists (including Scott Doney of Woods Hole Oceanographic...
View ArticleShark v. Seal: Who Wins?
There's been a rise in shark sightings on the Cape this summer — drawn not by humans in the water (pace"Jaws") but by an abundant population of seals. So ... can we drive away the sharks by culling the...
View ArticleLamps with Sex Lives Blend Science and Design
What do you get when you cross a short, fat lamp with a tall, skinny lamp? Nothing, silly, lamps can't breed ... until now.
View ArticleLiving Lab Week in Review: Bowhead Sighting, Stoney Controversy
The local science institutions have been brimming with news lately. We'll do this rundown in geographical order, starting on the outermost tip of the Cape and working our way back.
View ArticleOcean Health Index: What's in a Number?
Imagine this: your spouse (best friend, sibling) has just been in a bad car accident. You rush to the hospital and pounce on the doctor.
View ArticleMeet Heather Goldstone and Living Lab
WGBH science editor Heather Goldstone, best known as the brains behind the Climatide blog, has launched a new show and blog. Climatide focused on how climate change is affecting Cape Cod. Living Lab...
View ArticlePhotographing Science on Ice
Chris Linder is a scientist–turned–award-winning science photographer. Over the past 10 years, he has photographed more than 30 science expeditions, including 16 to the polar regions. Four of those...
View ArticleThe Scary Math of EEE Prevention
What is a human life worth? That’s really the question at the heart of a controversy brewing over aerial pesticide spraying to kill mosquitos that may carry the viruses responsible for West Nile or...
View ArticleLiving Off a Love of the Natural World
When I first met Ari Daniel Shapiro, he was a college student spending a summer doing research here in Woods Hole. He subsequently returned and earned a Ph.D. from the M.I.T.-Woods Hole Oceanographic...
View Article30 Issues: Why You Should Care About ... Climate Change
It’s been said so many times, it’s hard to even find an original source. Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, but not her own facts.When it comes to climate change, though, there seem to be...
View ArticleGoing to Extremes for Science
I've read my fair share of science books and field blogs and talked to more than a few scientists. In most cases, I hear their stories and think "Cool! I want to do that!" In a few other cases, I think...
View ArticlePhotosynthesis for Children of All Ages
Plants and photosynthetic bacteria sustain much of life on Earth. They form the base of food chains both on land and in the ocean, and they produce the oxygen we breathe. Indeed, when the first...
View ArticleThe Politics of Science Funding
While it may not be the issue that decides elections, funding for scientific research is a fundamentally political beast. Take, for example, President George W. Bush's 2004 manned space exploration...
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