Fun with CO2 on a Greenland Glacier
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- Author: Revkin
Tags: arctic art capefarewell climate comedy environment global nature satire sustainability warming
Francesca Galeazzi, an artist and architectural engineer, is one of a couple of dozen people exploring west Greenland as part of the Cape Farewell arts, science and climate project. Here, she releases a cylinder of carbon dioxide, the main emission linked to global warming, and jokingly says...
Matt Damon Pushes for Clean Water in Africa
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- Author: Revkin
Tags: africa bill clinton damon disease environment matt nonprofit poverty water
Matt Damon was one of hundreds of participants in this year's meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, former President Bill Clinton's effort to funnel wealth in ways that improve lives in poor places. He announced a pledge to raise $1 million for water projects in Africa. More at...
Losing Alaska
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- Rating Average: 5.00 from 6 people
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- Author: Revkin
Tags: alaska arctic climate erosion greenhouse north ocean palin slope warming
Alaska's Arctic coast is eroding at up to 100 feet a year in some places as the warming climate thaws tundra and open water raises waves that pound shores. Researchers from the Univ. of Colorado created a video showing 30 days of erosion. More at http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
Hurricane raw video 2008
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- Author: cenlayouth
Tags: 08 2008 abc alert barack bush cbs charity cnn coast convention damage depression destruction disaster donate dotearth el emergency evacuation evacuees fay fema flood florida fund georgia gulf gustav hanna hati help huracan hurricane ike info infomation julio katrina mayor msn nagin natural nbc news obama path photos pics politics rain raw ray republican response restoration revkin roars storm stregthen texas tiempo tormenta track travel tropical update video water weatherbug wind
http://www.gustav_aide_raffle.ticketleap.com Gustav,Hanna,ike Restoration will rival the scale & difficulty of Katrina el tiempo tormenta huracan
Gustav is Gulf Coast Hurricane Threat
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- Rating Average: 5.00 from 7 people
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- Author: Revkin
Tags: convention disasters dotearth gulf gustav hurricane new orleans politics republican revkin storm tropical weather
From DOT EARTH, http://www.nytimes.com/dotearth: The tropical storm called Gustav is headed toward the Gulf of Mexico and several computer simulations forecast a strike along the Gulf Coast, possibly near New Orleans, on Monday -- the opening day of the Republican National Convention, no less....
Richard Wilson on Bombs and Climate, Politics and Science
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- Author: Revkin
Tags: bomb climate environment global italy milita nuclear politics richard risk science sicily war warming wilson
A veteran physicist and expert on nuclear risk weighs in for DOT EARTH on nuclear peril and promise, politics and cliamte, from an annual meeting on "planetary emergencies" in Erice, Sicily. More on http://www.nytimes.com/dotearth
'Poop is Funny, But Fatal'
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- Rating Average: 2.64 from 42 people
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- Author: Revkin
Tags: children develoment disease dot earth feces health medicine poop poverty revk sanitation unicef waste youth
More than 2 billion people have no safe place to defecate, and about 1.5 million people, mostly children, die young each year because of water contaminated with waste. What can be done to cut such losses? Explore the issue on Dot Earth, http://www.nytimes.com/dotearth , and at www.wsscc.org.
Kayak Time Lapse (August 8)
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- Author: slalomskier
Tags: Academy Boat Cheshire DIY Grant Guillemot Kayak Revkin Venture Wood Wooden
The time lapse of me building a Guillemot "L" Kayak for the Cheshire Academy Venture Grant.
Gorillas of northern Congo Republic
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- Rating Average: 4.93 from 14 people
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- Author: Revkin
Tags: africa animals babies congo cute endangered gorillas nature revkin
The Wildlife Conservation Society surveyed for western lowland gorillas in northern Congo Republic and found a "motherlode" of more than 125,000, as yet unaffected by Ebola virus or hunting. But threats are rising. More on Dot Earth (nytimes.com/dotearth) and www.wcs.org
Apocalypse Then - Tunguska Explosion
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- Rating Average: 4.00 from 1 people
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- Author: anrevk
Tags: aviation catastrophe deep disasters Dot Earth environment explosions impact revkin Russia Sandia science Siberia space
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...
DotEarth Q & A: Dr. James E. Hansen
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- Rating Average: 5.00 from 10 people
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- Author: TheNewYorkTimes
Tags: Climate Coal DotEarth Enviornment Hansen Politics Revkin Urgency
DotEarth Q & A with Dr. Jim Hansen on climate, dice, politics, coal and urgency. nytimes.com/dotearth
Jim Hansen - 20 Years of Climate Concerns
- Length: 9:52
- Rating Average: 4.45 from 22 people
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- Author: anrevk
Tags: coal earth energy environment fossil fuels hansen james jim NASA new oil politics revkin times york
Dr. James Hansen, a veteran NASA climate expert, has been both lauded and criticized for moving beyond studying global warming to pressing lawmakers and the public to end unfettered coal burning and build a nonpolluting energy system. I interviewed him 6.21.08 for a New York Times story and post...
Aboard the Clearwater -- UNCLE WADE
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- Author: anrevk
Tags: americana banjo blues clearwater country environment folk guitar hudson revkin roots seeger uncle wade
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/unclewade More on the boat and the river at clearwater.org
Madagascar's Strange Predator -- the Fossa
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- Author: anrevk
Tags: biodiversity conservation dot earth endangered environment fossa madagascar revkin species zoos
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
NYTimes.com - Dot Earth: Local Cooking
- Length: 3:50
- Rating Average: 4.17 from 6 people
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- Author: TheNewYorkTimes
Tags: Andrew Cooking Dot Earth Local New News NYT NYTimes.com Revkin salad The Times York
NYTimes.com - Times environment reporter Andrew C. Revkin cooks up a local salad with Chef Peter Hoffman.
The extraordinary Retreat of Arctic Ocean Sea Ice, 2007
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- Author: anrevk
Tags: arctic climate dot earth environment global north nytimes pole revkin warming
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...
Reporting the Invonvenient Truth 2008
- Length: 3:14
- Rating Average: 5.00 from 1 people
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- Author: AspenInstitute
Tags: Andrew Aspen Bill Blakemore Colorado David Dennis Dimick Eilperin Environment Forum Institute Juliet Malakoff Revkin
With Bill Blakemore, Juliet Eilperin, David Malakoff, Andrew Revkin. Moderated by Dennis R. Dimick. The Aspen Institute and National Geographic magazine host the first ever Aspen Environment Forum, in Aspen, Colorado—a powerful, three-day exchange examining the future of our shared environment.
Dot Earth Video - Know Your Dot Earther
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- Author: eatjader
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Dot Earth video introducing myself to my Dot Earth friends.
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