Andy Revkin, the New York Times environment reporter and Dot Earth blogger, went for a row with his son Jack on Earth Day 2008 in Stuart, Florida. Jack had seen several baby tri-colored herons the day before and found them again, this time with a camcorder. Suburbia and nature can coexist, it seems.
http://dotearth.b logs.nytimes.com
In September 2007, the sheath of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean pulled back far beyond the average minimum measured since satellites have kept track starting in 1979. Many experts foresee a similar, if not bigger, retreat in 2008. Visit svc.gsfc.nasa.gov and nytimes.com/climate for more background. email dotearth @ nytimes.com
Guinan's, a store and pub on the Hudson River in Garrison, N.Y., since 1959, had its final Irish session. More can be learned, and heard, at Wendy Bounds' blog and on nytimes.com, at these links:
http://www.nytime s.com/2008/01/27/nyr egion/27towns.html
http://www.little chapelontheriver.blo gspot.com/
Uncle Wade, a rustic blues roots band from Garrison, NY, playing about the good ship Clearwater on the Hudson River, June 2008. More at myspace.com/unclewad e
More on the boat and the river at clearwater.org
Greenland's ice sheet holds the same volume of water as the Gulf of Mexico. Melting is outpacing snowfall these days. But the rate of change in a warming world is still not clear. Andrew C. Revkin, who has written on climate since 1985, explored the giant island with scientists recently for The New York Times. Read more at http://www.nytimes.c om/revkin.
Doug Martin, a Maine kayak designer and instrument maker, is up-ending violin design using strange materials, including balsawood.
More here: http://www.nytimes.c om/2006/11/28/scienc e/28acou.html
The Bronx Zoo has opened an exhibition on Madagascar and its unusual, and imperiled, wildlife, including the fossa, a relative of the mongoose that hunts lemurs.
For more, visit nytimes.com/dotearth and wcs.org
Innovators from 16 countries spent nearly 4 weeks at MIT in the summer of 2007 to come up with simple, cheap technologies for improving the lives of the poorest people on Earth.
A Burmese python, located by the radio transmitter inserted in its body, slithers past science reporter Andrew Revkin's feet in the Everglades.
www.nytimes.com/r evkin
Story here:
http://www.nytime s.com/2007/07/24/sci ence/24pyth.html
June 30 marks the 100th anniversary of a huge mid-air explosion that flattened hundreds of square miles of forests in Siberia. Recent computer simulations show it might have been a smaller near-earth object than previously theorized -- and thus the kind that hits Earth more frequently. Learn more at nytimes.com/dotearth and sandia.gov (video courtesy of Sandia National Lab)
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