SCIENCE IN THE NEWS WEEKLY
Global Warming Coverage Continues to Drop
The Columbia Journalism Review took a closer look at the quantity of climate coverage in 2011 and came to the broad conclusion that it was even scarcer than in the year before.
In other environmental news, the dramatic decline of mammals in the Florida Everglades has been attributed to non-native Burmese pythons, some of which have grown to monstrous proportions.
New observations taken from a canyon in the Mediterranean during an epic storm reveal that surface weather can shake up even the deepest ocean habitats.
Studies of millennia-old rocks that erupted at Santorini, Greece, show that the chemical composition of its magma changed just a few decades before the volcano blew its top around 1600 B.C. That blast came after 18,000 years of relative calm.
Alternative power sources won't necessarily be green forever. For now, the climatic effects of "clean energy" sources are trivial compared with those that spew out greenhouse gases, but if we keep on using ever more power over the coming centuries, they will become ever more significant.
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