Cameras and other equipment attached to multiple species of sharks provide a rare look into a world you’d otherwise avoid
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This Is What It Feels Like to Be Caught in an Avalanche—and Live
This guy was lucky enough to survive—but here are a few things to know to increase your chances of making it out alive
How Green Is My Valley? New Satellite Imagery Shows Changes in Earth’s Vegetation
Satellite imagery reveals a green, breathing planet — but one under threat from human activity
How to Use Behavioral Science to Encourage Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency isn’t just about technology. As Alex Laskey of Opower explains in this video, it’s also about psychology
All Eyes on the World: A Look Back at NASA’s Best Views of Earth
On a blue-sky day, it’s easy to look up into the far-reaching atmosphere and marvel at the wonders that it holds — and not even realize that anything is staring back at you. But in reality, fleets of satellites and aerospace …
Debating the New Environmentalism
Three of the top minds in environmentalism battle over whether the green movement needs to change.
The History of Global Climate Negotiations, in 83 Seconds
All you need to know about why we can’t get a global climate deal.
Visualizing the Anthropocene
Today about 360,000 new people, give or take a few thousand, will enter the world. Significantly fewer than that will shuffle off it, which is why we’re adding about 200,000 people a day. Global population has already passed 7 billion, and we’re well on our way to 9 billion or more by the middle of the century. Humans live—and for the …
TED Talks: Peter Diamandis on Why Things Are Getting Better All the Time
It’s Friday afternoon on Ecocentric, which means it’s time for videos. And there’s no better place to find them than TED, the summit of smart people and the wealthy who’d like to be near them that just concluded last week. I picked out a strong one: Peter Diamandis, the tech veteran and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, talking about …
Shooting an Elephant: Why GoDaddy’s CEO Was Wrong
UPDATE, 3 p.m. Thursday: GoDaddy competitor Namecheap has launched a campaign to woo away offended GoDaddy customers. Our colleagues at Techland have the full story: Switch business now, and Namecheap is offering to make elephant donations on your behalf.
We all shoot vacation videos, but most of us choose to keep them to ourselves …