By Rudy RuitenbergJan 5, 2011 4:24 AM PT World food prices rose to a record in December on higher sugar, grain and oilseed costs, the United Nations said, exceeding levels reached in 2008 that sparked deadly riots from Haiti to...
2010 2011 By Matt Dietrichson16 February 2012 About 5.6 million trees in cities and towns across Texas were killed by last year’s record-setting drought, the Texas Forest Service has estimated after studying before-and-after satellite imagery. This “dramatic” toll on...
Alaska’s Columbia glacier has retreated rapidly over the last four decades. This false-color image was taken in July 2014. Photo: Lauren Dauphin / NASA Earth Observatory By Carolyn Gramling 10 December 2019 SAN FRANCISCO (Science News) – A mesmerizing new...
