Dr. Daniel P. Schrag, a climate adviser for President Obama and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, told the New York Times we need "a war on coal" - so we kind of know…

Attention, activist groups: Open-minded people don't change their view when you control what they learn and they only get one side of the issue, according to a new paper, so framing can only take you…

Nuclear power is not an environmental issue. There is just no way to spin that it is.  What started off with activists being anti-nuclear weapon has morphed into irrational, anti-science stances…

A student who shows up on time, listens respectfully and appears fully engaged to teachers might still lack emotional and cognitive involvement with the course material, according to survey results…

Sustainability programs are not just about advocation and action - a lot of thought also goes into how many people working together can change the world. It doesn't matter what issue, conservation…

Almost no one outside New York City government and health advocates engaged in social experimentation thought a ban on some drink sizes for New York City made any sense or would actually do any good…

A Georgia State University researcher says the Clean Air Act signed by President Richard Nixon in 1970 led to climate change - in a good way.  Jeremy Diem, an associate professor in the…

A few years ago, I wrote a piece for Communicating Astronomy with the Public outlining how to more effectively reach the public.(1) I have some credibility. Science 2.0 has become a well-known…

Congressman Raul Grijalva, (D-Arizona), has some interesting ideas about science. Namely, he thinks that all of the government scientists in the State Department who did numerous environmental impact…

It seems like a great idea, doesn't it, to send an automated rover to Mars to gather samples of rocks and dust, and return it to Earth, to study in laboratories with all the specialist…