Mass Media Will Make Millions Thanks to the McCutcheon Decision — Here’s How

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2014 The companies that control the media stand to benefit the most from the Supreme Court's latest disastrous decision; a new theory about germs poses the most important challenge to medicine in the 21st century; meanwhile, Microsoft's new CEO has revolutionized the company. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

NASA Discovers More Than 700 New Planets and Some May Have Life

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Earth ‘May Be Doubly Sensitive’ to CO2

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Dec 12, 2013 Earth's sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be twice as great as scientists had thought, new climate records from the distant past suggest. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

It Turns Out the Sky IS Falling

BLANK Nov 8, 2013 Asteroids and satellites, oh, my! Two reports warn us to cast a wary eye above as space debris -- natural and man made -- drops from the sky. But don’t over-fret: Odds of getting hit are very small, though experts warn that the right-size asteroid would cause major damage. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Tale of Two Planets

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Aug 15, 2013 It’s official: Global warming could get worse – almost unimaginably worse. Conditions on planet Earth mean that in theory, at least, there could be a runaway greenhouse effect. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

World Environment Day

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The Life and Death of Words, People and Even Nature

By Eduardo Galeano, TomDispatch May 1, 2013 After Roman legions invaded Egypt, during one of the battles waged by Julius Caesar against the brother of Cleopatra, fire devoured most of the thousands upon thousands of papyrus scrolls in the Library of Alexandria. A pair of millennia later, during George W. Bush’s crusade against an imaginary enemy in Iraq, most of the books in the Library of Baghdad were reduced to ashes. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Don’t Ask Marco Rubio About Science Because He’s Not a Scientist, Man

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Nov 19, 2012 Rising Republican star and potential 2016 presidential candidate Marco Rubio had an interesting response to a question about the age of our planet during an interview with GQ magazine. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The World Bank’s Dire Report and Warning on Climate Change

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Nov 19, 2012 The entire planet will be hurt by climate change, but a bleak new report says some of the poorest countries will feel its effects the most. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

What a Wonderful World

Staff / Truthdig Jan 2, 2012 This commercial from the BBC, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, reminds us in this new year how special -- and fragile -- our planet is.This commercial from the BBC, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, reminds us in this new year how special—and fragile—our planet is. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Astronomers Scope Out ‘Earth 2.0’

Staff / Truthdig Dec 6, 2011 Did you know that astronomers have found a bunch of potential "Earth 2.0" candidate planets scattered around the universe? More than 2,000 in fact, and one in particular, which NASA dubbed Kepler 22-b after the supercharged telescope that spotted it, spins around its own sun just 600 light-years away. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Haiti Braces for Future Quakes

Staff / Truthdig Nov 1, 2010 From earthquakes to cholera, Haiti can't seem to get a break. Geologists have now reported that the decimated country may be in serious risk of additional devastation. Scientists posit that “not all the geological strain that triggered the original quake” last Jan. 12 has been released. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )