In 2011 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave $50 million to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal program. A year later, has the money made the difference in the fight against coal? TIME’s Bryan Walsh spoke to Bloomberg to find …
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Climate Change Equals Hot Summers. Case Closed.
An unusually explicit climate scientist drops the hedging and says what more and more people believe
Martian Vistas: A Look at Curiosity Rover’s New Home
NASA’s latest Mars lander transformed an engineering team’s high-risk brainstorming into reality on Sunday, safely lowering the rover into Mars’ Gale Crater. See the top topography of Mars as captured by the HiRise camera …
Mars Curiosity Rover: Wheels Down on the Red Planet
The rover pulls off an improbable landing — and fires up its instruments for two years of research
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Why the Drought Won’t Be Getting Better Anytime Soon — and Why This One Won’t Be the Last
The droughts gets broader and deeper, covering more than three-fifths of the continental U.S. And scientific studies show that this sort of drought could only be the beginning
An Inside Look at the Mars Curiosity Rover
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission set down a large mobile laboratory, the rover Curiosity, using precision-landing technology that makes many of Mars’ most intriguing regions viable destinations for the first time. …
How to Experience the Curiosity Rover’s Mars Landing Online
Early Monday morning, the Curiosity rover will attempt to land on Mars. Luckily, NASA is making it pretty easy to follow along online.
The Mystery of the Purring Elephant
The lowest registers of an elephant’s voice are inaudible to humans—but they’ve been a longstanding puzzle all the same
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Coca-Cola and will.i.am Team Up to Sell High-End Recycled Products
How do you get kids to be eco-conscious? Make recycling cool and expensive.
Window on Infinity: Pictures From Space
Stunning images of the sun, Earth and far-away locales in our roundup of cosmic views from July 2012.