Farming for life, for our future

Small, local farms are not just better for the planet, they are one big part of the solution to climate change: “The current body of soil science shows that all the cropland on Earth, if farmed organically, could sequester 41 percent of all the greenhouse gases...

Trash and climate change

Our Trashion Fashion project, which launches tonight!, is about bringing attention to how consumption and waste are part of the climate change picture. We humans generate an incredible amount of waste, particularly us here in the West. It wasn’t always so; until...

Using photography to save the oceans

Two award wining photographers, Cristina Mittermeier and Paul Nicklen, have founded a new marine conservation program, SeaLegacy. Their goal is to increase ocean conservation from 2% today to 20% of the ocean by 2020, by raising awareness and concern for the oceans...

The Keeling Curve

If you’re concerned about climate change, then you probably know about the Keeling Curve, one of the most important pieces of data in climate change science. Data collection began in 1958 when Charles David Keeling set up equipment in Mauna Loa Observatory to...

Unchopping a tree

This beautiful and sad video shows how fast the parks we love—Central park, Hyde park, Champs de Mars park—would be gone if they were logged at the same rate as the rainforests around world. The video is part of a multimedia science-based collection of...