60-Second Earth

By Scientific American

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Tune in every Sunday for quick reports on the science of the environment and the future of energy. It'll just take a minute!

Episode Date
New Map Knows Noise
Feb 23, 2015
Oil-Eating Microbes Have Worldwide Underground Connections
Feb 15, 2015
Siberian Winters See Temp Uptick
Feb 08, 2015
Dig This: China Cuts Coal Production
Feb 01, 2015
Is Recycling Worth the Effort?
Jan 28, 2015
Tropical Forests Pay Price for Gold Rush
Jan 20, 2015
Cheap Oil Means Raise the Gas T-Word
Jan 12, 2015
Meet the (Newest Known) Beetles!
Dec 30, 2014
Oil Spill Sullies World Heritage Site
Dec 22, 2014
Plummeting Petroleum Price Gases Up Global Warming
Dec 15, 2014
Movies Can Boost Solar Power
Nov 28, 2014
Sun's Magnetic Field Boosts Earth Lightning
Nov 24, 2014
Wildlife Crime? There's an App for That
Nov 18, 2014
Protected Areas Get Short Shrift
Nov 10, 2014
Clock Ticking on Climate Change Prevention
Nov 02, 2014
Better E-Waste Handling Helps Environment and Health
Oct 28, 2014
Bottling the Sun's Power on Earth
Oct 19, 2014
Ebola Gorilla Vaccine Could Prevent Human Outbreaks
Oct 13, 2014
Wildlife Population Plummeted Since 1970
Oct 05, 2014
People Power Takes Aim at Climate Change
Sep 20, 2014
Ozone Hole Closing Up, Thanks to Global Action
Sep 15, 2014
Historic Abundance of Blue Whales Returns in California
Sep 07, 2014
How to Save the Woods
Aug 24, 2014
Spill Some Oil? Magnetize It for Cleanup
Aug 17, 2014
Antique Markets Used to Launder Poached Ivory
Aug 11, 2014
Bahamas Creation Linked to African Dust
Aug 03, 2014
Some Coral Should Produce Shells in Acidifying Ocean
Jul 27, 2014
Ants Could Help Warming Cry Uncle
Jul 21, 2014
Urban Growth Defines This Century
Jul 14, 2014
Environmental Crime Funds Terrorism
Jun 29, 2014
Future Smog Looks More Persistent
Jun 23, 2014
Poisoned Poor Killed in Millions by Pollution
Jun 15, 2014
I Just Want to Say One Word to You: Plastiglomerate
Jun 08, 2014
Better Car Labeling Could Pump Up Fuel Efficiency
Jun 01, 2014
Pope Francis Pleas for the Environment
May 25, 2014
Poetry Poster Sucks Up Smog
May 19, 2014
Hurricanes Move Away from Equator with Expanding Tropics
May 14, 2014
Bumper Corn Looks Dicey in Drought
May 05, 2014
Biodiversity Survives Extinctions for Now
Apr 20, 2014
Earthquake Deflection Takes a Tiny Step
Apr 06, 2014
Citizen Environmental Monitoring Could Keep Officials Honest
Apr 01, 2014
Space-Based Solar Collectors Could Have a Sunny Future
Mar 24, 2014
Realistic Climate Models Exhibit Greenhouse Gas Sensitivity
Mar 16, 2014
Lighting May Cut Seed-Rich Bat Guano Production
Mar 13, 2014
Air-Gun Oil Exploration Wrongs Right Whales
Mar 02, 2014
Climate Currently Pays for Increased Human Wealth
Feb 23, 2014
Cities Befriend Select Plants and Animals
Feb 18, 2014
Global Warming Freezes Penguin Chicks
Feb 09, 2014
China Holiday Travel Puts Spotlight on Transportation
Feb 02, 2014
If the Fuel Source Ain't Clean, Your Electric Car Ain't Green
Jan 26, 2014
Heat Is on These Countries for the Heat
Jan 21, 2014
Cold Outside? Forecast Calls for an Uptick in Global Warming Disbelief
Jan 12, 2014
The Biggest Stories on Earth
Dec 29, 2013
Don't Treat Old Gadgets Like Garbage
Dec 22, 2013
How Many Partridges Are Really in that Pear Tree?
Dec 15, 2013
Blame Heat Waves on Loss of Arctic Sea Ice
Dec 08, 2013
Dandruff Shampoo Could Mess Up Waterways
Dec 01, 2013
Human Health Depends on a Healthy Environment
Nov 25, 2013
Burying Coal Ash for Good
Nov 17, 2013
Ozone Hole History Offers Climate Lesson
Nov 10, 2013
Fertilizers Are (Nearly) Forever
Oct 27, 2013
U.S. Government Shutdown Disrupts Earth Monitoring
Oct 20, 2013
Climate Change Fight Needs Game Attitude
Oct 13, 2013
Airplane Pollution Needs To Descend
Oct 06, 2013
Can Solar Power Be Cheap?
Sep 29, 2013
Fighting Climate Change Also Battles Disease
Sep 22, 2013
Which Places Are Most Vulnerable to Climate Change?
Sep 15, 2013
Trees Write Air Pollution Record In Wood
Sep 08, 2013
Which Came First: Low CO2 or an Ice Age?
Sep 01, 2013
Cellist Converts Climate Data To Song
Aug 25, 2013
How Many Ants Become World Travelers?
Aug 18, 2013
Big Animal Extinction Impoverishes Soil
Aug 11, 2013
Desert Shrubs Could Suck Up Carbon
Aug 04, 2013
How to Prevent Another Fukushima Explosion
Jul 28, 2013
When a Heat Wave Is the Future, You Need Better Air-Conditioning
Jul 21, 2013
Where's the Best Place to Put a Wind Farm?
Jul 14, 2013
Climate Change Alters Soil Bacteria Distribution
Jul 07, 2013
Is There a Formula for Better Cities?
Jun 30, 2013
To Store More Carbon, Make Grasshoppers Nervous
Jun 23, 2013
Climate Change Getting Worse by the Minute
Jun 16, 2013
Plastic Bags Litter Seafloor
Jun 09, 2013
400-Year-Old Plant Resurrected
Jun 02, 2013
Water Waste May Leave Us Thirsty
May 26, 2013
Who's Paying the Price for Global Warming?
May 19, 2013
Moon Base Work Yields Clean Steel Process
May 13, 2013
Remember the BP Oil Spill? Malformed Fish Do
May 05, 2013
Air Gun Blasts Shatter Undersea Tranquility
Apr 28, 2013
Is Sustainability Even Possible?
Apr 21, 2013
Cut Soot to Stave Off Sea Level Rise
Apr 14, 2013
Penguin Species Could Be Climate Winner
Apr 08, 2013
Extinction May Not Be Forever
Mar 31, 2013
Can a Pope Change the World?
Mar 24, 2013
Life Abides, Even in the Deep
Mar 17, 2013
Chavez's Death Could Affect Oil Prices, Production and Pollution
Mar 10, 2013
Will There Be Enough Water?
Mar 03, 2013
How Skynet Could Help Save the Planet
Feb 24, 2013
Insurance for Global Catastrophes, Whether Asteroids or Climate Change
Feb 20, 2013
Roses Raise Environment Concerns
Feb 10, 2013
Earthworm Invaders Up Soil Greenhouse Gases
Feb 03, 2013
Communication Towers Pluck Birds
Jan 29, 2013
Obama Pledges to Address Climate, Energy
Jan 21, 2013
Electric Cars Need a New Sound
Jan 13, 2013
Oil Harvesting Goes to Extremes
Jan 06, 2013
We Look Back Earthily at 2012
Dec 30, 2012
Maya Civilization Provides a Real Apocalyptic Lesson
Dec 23, 2012
Leaked Report Confirms Human-Induced Climate Change
Dec 16, 2012
Trouble and Toil Has Not Slowed the Boil
Dec 09, 2012
Sunlit Nanoparticles Turn Water to Steam
Dec 02, 2012
What to Expect from Climate Negotiations
Nov 25, 2012
Advanced Biofuels Hope to Change the Climate for Transportation
Nov 18, 2012
Global Warming Means Culture Change
Nov 11, 2012
Who Were the Greenest Presidents?
Nov 05, 2012
What Does It Take to Make a "Frankenstorm"?
Oct 27, 2012
Human Thirst Makes Earth Quake
Oct 21, 2012
Can the City That Never Sleeps Forgo Nuclear Power?
Oct 14, 2012
How the Great Barrier Reef Is Disappearing Right before Our Eyes
Oct 07, 2012
Candidates Mum on Climate Change
Sep 30, 2012
Prime Time Fox News and WSJ Editorial Climate Coverage Mostly Wrong
Sep 21, 2012
Bird Seed Poisons Wild Birds
Sep 16, 2012
How Humans and Tigers Can Coexist
Sep 09, 2012
How Much Life Is There on Earth?
Sep 02, 2012
Energy Hits the U.S. Presidential Campaign Trail
Aug 26, 2012
Fukushima Radiation Damages Butterflies, but Not People--Yet
Aug 19, 2012
Drilling for Offshore Oil Comes to the Arctic
Aug 12, 2012
UV Gives Fish Skin Cancer
Aug 05, 2012
Greener Olympics Mean Cleaner Air
Jul 30, 2012
Marijuana Farms Poison Wildlife
Jul 22, 2012
Could Geoengineering Stop Heat Waves?
Jul 15, 2012
35 Years of Renewable Energy
Jul 08, 2012
Are Western Forests Doomed to Burn Away?
Jul 01, 2012
Warming Oceans Will Follow Laws of Physics
Jun 24, 2012
For Sustainability, Go Beyond Gross Domestic Product
Jun 17, 2012
Are We Pushing the Planet to the Brink of Irreversible Environmental Change?
Jun 10, 2012
How Climate Change May Impact Electricity Supplies
Jun 03, 2012
Another Casualty of War?: The Environment
May 27, 2012
Why Tariffs on Chinese Photovoltaics Are Bad for the Planet
May 20, 2012
Wasted Food No More
May 13, 2012
How to Adapt to Climate Change
May 06, 2012
L.A. Needs to Stop Being Such a Cow Town
Apr 29, 2012
Happy Earth Day! Welcome to the Anthropocene
Apr 22, 2012
Take Me Out to the Renewably Powered Ballgame
Apr 15, 2012
It's Not Dead, It's Resting
Apr 08, 2012
135 Years of Records Reveals Deep Ocean Warming
Apr 01, 2012
How Industrial Noise Helps and Hurts Plants
Mar 25, 2012
Global Energy Hunger Leaves Little Room to Displace Dirty Fuels
Mar 18, 2012
Fukushima: We Listen Back
Mar 11, 2012
How Raindrops Calm the Wind
Feb 26, 2012
Is the Keystone Pipeline a Shortcut to Catastrophic Climate Change?
Feb 19, 2012
What Does a Coup in the Maldives Mean for Climate Change?
Feb 12, 2012
How to Make Electricity Using Plants and Sunshine
Feb 05, 2012
How Much Energy Do You Waste Charging Your Cell Phone?
Jan 29, 2012
Gee Whiz, Why Not Recycle Urine for Drinking Water?
Jan 16, 2012
Michael Mann Defends Climate Computer Models
Jan 10, 2012
Welcome to the Year of the Lightbulb
Jan 01, 2012
What Are the Chances of a White Christmas?
Dec 25, 2011
Durban Deal May Bring Climate Change Action into 21st Century
Dec 11, 2011
Simmering Planet Keeps Heating
Dec 04, 2011
Give Thanks for Methods to Cut Back on Wasted Food
Nov 27, 2011
Oceans Teem with Tiny Plastic Particles
Nov 20, 2011
Flying on a Wing and Oil from Plants
Nov 13, 2011
Halloween Chocolate: More Trick Than Treat?
Oct 30, 2011
Why Is the CIA Keeping Climate Change Secret?
Oct 23, 2011
How Steve Jobs Tried to Make Apple Green
Oct 09, 2011
World's Largest River Restoration Project Begins
Oct 02, 2011
Fukushima Fallout in Japan
Sep 25, 2011
Can the World Handle Chinese Cars?
Sep 18, 2011
Need a Break? Try Nature
Sep 11, 2011
Need Rain? Try Lasers
Sep 04, 2011
How Much Life Does Earth Host?
Aug 28, 2011
Why Environmentalism Is Conservative
Aug 21, 2011
Bringing Birds Back to Regrowing Forests
Aug 14, 2011
What If the Smart Grid Isn't So Smart?
Aug 07, 2011
Eating the Lionfish
Jul 31, 2011
Feeding the Grid with Sunshine at College
Jul 24, 2011
Absence of Top Predators Brings Unanticipated Changes
Jul 17, 2011
Electric Cars May Need Noisemakers
Jul 10, 2011
The Buzz on Beer and Soda Fizz
Jul 06, 2011
Pacific Plankton Crosses to Atlantic, Thanks to Arctic Meltdown
Jun 26, 2011
Sunspot-Related Cooling Can't Offset Greenhouse Warming
Jun 19, 2011
Pavement Contributes to Poor Air Quality
Jun 12, 2011
Are Biodegradeable Plastics Doing More Harm Than Good?
Jun 05, 2011
Whither the Honey Bee?
May 29, 2011
America's Climate Choices Are Narrowing
May 15, 2011
Solar Power Boosts Home Sales?
May 01, 2011
Can Taxes Be Green?
Apr 17, 2011
How Doth Your Native Flora Grow?
Apr 10, 2011
Will Today's Trash Be Tomorrow's Island?
Apr 03, 2011
The Origin of Life
Mar 27, 2011
Chernobyl Opens for Tourism
Mar 20, 2011
Oil Spills Mean Air Pollution, Too
Mar 13, 2011
Predicting the Future of Oil
Mar 06, 2011
Global Rise of the Fire Ant? Blame U.S. Trade
Feb 27, 2011
Permafrost Meltdown May Herald Climate Catastrophe
Feb 20, 2011
Does Drilling for Electricity Make Sense?
Feb 13, 2011
Teaching Bankers about Climate Change
Feb 06, 2011
Another Reason to Hate Shopping Sound Tracks
Jan 30, 2011
Is Coal Fly Ash Responsible for Mass Extinction?
Jan 23, 2011
Strike Off the Band, Says Penguin Study
Jan 16, 2011
No Such Thing as a Free Parking Spot
Jan 09, 2011
Drink 'til You're Green
Jan 02, 2011
The Earth in 2010
Dec 26, 2010
A Holiday for Consumption?
Dec 19, 2010
Energy Choices Predict Future Climate
Dec 12, 2010
Yes, We Cancun on Climate Change?
Dec 05, 2010
Is Climate Change Too Scary?
Nov 28, 2010
Will Economic Health Align with Environmental Health?
Nov 21, 2010
Scientists Decide on Top 5 Issues for Sustainability
Nov 14, 2010
Oil from the BP Disaster May Remain Thick on the Seafloor
Nov 07, 2010
A Citizen Scientist Changes Our Understanding of Whales
Oct 31, 2010
A Ban on Biodiversity?
Oct 24, 2010
The Little Energy Program That Could?
Oct 17, 2010
The Sound of the Automobile's Future?
Oct 10, 2010
Wasted Food Equals Wasted Energy
Oct 03, 2010
Tapping the Power in Hot Rocks
Sep 26, 2010
Life Is Tough, Especially for Microbes
Sep 19, 2010
Corals Face Catastrophic Bleaching
Sep 12, 2010
Carbon Dioxide from Cars, Part 2
Sep 05, 2010
The Price of Traffic in China
Aug 29, 2010
How Will Climate Change Impact Bread?, Part 2
Aug 23, 2010
Keeping Oil Underground in Ecuador
Aug 15, 2010
Can Charcoal Slow Climate Change and Improve Agriculture?
Aug 08, 2010
Global Warming Is Undeniable
Aug 01, 2010
China Surpasses U.S. in Energy Use?
Jul 25, 2010
Floating Wind Turbines Promise Clean Power
Jul 11, 2010
Gulf Coast Dead Zone Set to Grow
Jul 04, 2010
Are Modern Cities for People or Cars?
Jun 27, 2010
Will the Oil Spill Kill Sperm Whales?
Jun 20, 2010
The Full Price of Oil
Jun 13, 2010
Sex Lives of Crickets Revealed
Jun 06, 2010
How to Re-Create an Ecosystem
May 30, 2010
Save the Whales--by Hunting Them?
May 23, 2010
Lizards Feel the Heat from Climate Change
May 16, 2010
How Bad Is the Oil Spill?
May 12, 2010
Cracking the Genetic Code of a Frog
May 02, 2010
What's the Most Recycled Product in the U.S.?
Apr 18, 2010
Keeping Coal Mines from Exploding
Apr 11, 2010
How Will Climate Change Impact Bread?
Apr 04, 2010
Bye-Bye Bluefin Tuna
Mar 28, 2010
Does Solar Power Need a Revolution?
Mar 21, 2010
Who Is to Blame for Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Mar 14, 2010
Seeking Transformational Energy Technologies
Mar 09, 2010
Fracking to Free Natural Gas?
Feb 28, 2010
The Complex Physics of Clouds
Feb 21, 2010
What Does Winter Weather Reveal about Global Warming?
Feb 11, 2010
Wolverine No Match for Climate Change
Feb 04, 2010
How Fast Are Himalayan Glaciers Melting?
Jan 21, 2010
Tracking Arctic Wolves in Months-Long Night
Jan 07, 2010
In the 12 Months of 2009
Dec 31, 2009
Copenhagen's Carbon Debt
Dec 18, 2009
Copenhagen: Look to the Sea?
Dec 10, 2009
Can Energy Labels Be Trusted?
Dec 03, 2009
The Jellyfish Menace
Nov 19, 2009
Are Algae Mass Murderers?
Nov 13, 2009
Capturing Carbon Dioxide
Nov 05, 2009
Can the World's Most Polluted Places Ever Be Cleaned?
Oct 29, 2009
How City Noise Is Reshaping Birdsong
Oct 22, 2009
Sunny Germans Triumph in U.S. Solar Decathlon
Oct 16, 2009
Solar Decathlon Promotes Sunnier Future
Oct 08, 2009
Earthquakes Exert Global Influence
Oct 01, 2009
Linked Challenges: Climate Change and Energy Use
Sep 24, 2009
How to Stop the Ongoing Loss of Species
Sep 18, 2009
World's Craziest Geoengineering Scheme
Sep 03, 2009
Laughing Gas No Laughing Matter in Atmosphere
Aug 27, 2009
Plastic Not Fantastic... in the Ocean
Aug 21, 2009
Does Banning Plastic Bags Work?
Aug 13, 2009
Are Babies Bad for the Environment?
Aug 06, 2009
Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Shrinks
Jul 27, 2009
The Future of Farming
Jul 21, 2009
El Nino Has Arrived
Jul 10, 2009
The Wonderful World of Transgenic Animals
Jul 02, 2009
Can America's Trains Go High-Speed?
Jun 25, 2009
Getting to the Core of Twisters
Jun 23, 2009
Germany's Solar Head Start
Jun 05, 2009
Is Organic Really Better?
May 28, 2009
Solar Forecasts and Climate Change
May 22, 2009
Tuning Up Car Engines
May 14, 2009
Cash for Clunkers
May 08, 2009
Can Swine Flu Be Blamed on Industrial Farming?
May 01, 2009
Can Trees Save Us from Climate Change?
Apr 24, 2009
Can Genetically Modified Crops Feed the World?
Apr 16, 2009
Can Zoos Survive the Economic Crisis?
Apr 09, 2009
Turning Coal to Liquid Fuel
Mar 26, 2009
Land under Water
Mar 19, 2009
Carbon Offsets: Fact or Fiction?
Mar 05, 2009
The Great Garbage Patch
Feb 26, 2009
A "Green" New Deal
Feb 19, 2009
Waste Not, Want Not: Energy via the Smart Grid
Feb 12, 2009
Why Ecosystem Services Matter
Feb 05, 2009
Forget Nuclear Fission, How about Fusion?
Jan 29, 2009
Coldest Continent Warming, Too
Jan 23, 2009
To Dump (in the Lake) or Not to Dump
Jan 15, 2009
Carbon Dioxide from Cars
Jan 08, 2009
A Holiday for Oil
Dec 18, 2008
Santa in Danger: Polar Meltdown
Dec 11, 2008
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Nov 25, 2008
Wine Made from Tiger Bones
Nov 20, 2008
Is a Global Recession Good for the Environment?
Nov 13, 2008
Obama and (Climate) Change
Nov 06, 2008
Chocolate: Treat or Trick?
Oct 30, 2008
How Toxic Is Your iPod?
Oct 15, 2008
Maul of the Wild: Sixth Extinction Wipes out Animals Worldwide
Oct 09, 2008
Environmental Issues Divide Presidential Contenders
Oct 02, 2008