There are signs that a generation is rising that plans to make an energy quest -- from the light socket to the laboratory to the classroom and boardroom -- a top priority. At 12, Alec Loorz was already trying to excite fellow kids to get involved. Now he leads a climate group focused on students: http://www.Kids-vs-g lobal-warming.com . More at http://www.nytimes.c om/dotearth
From NYTIMES.COM/DOTEARTH : Astronaut Don Pettit created an astounding video using a sequence of still images he shot of the aurora borealis (northern lights) from the International Space Station.
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Alaska's Arctic coast is eroding at up to 100 feet a year in some places as the warming climate thaws tundra and open water raises waves that pound shores. Researchers from the Univ. of Colorado created a video showing 30 days of erosion. More at http://dotearth.blog s.nytimes.com
A veteran physicist and expert on nuclear risk weighs in for DOT EARTH on nuclear peril and promise, politics and cliamte, from an annual meeting on "planetary emergencies" in Erice, Sicily.
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Through the first year of my New York Times blog, Dot Earth, I've been taking readers on a season-by-season tour of life in a patch of woods on the edge of suburbia.
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Matt Damon was one of hundreds of participants in this year's meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, former President Bill Clinton's effort to funnel wealth in ways that improve lives in poor places. He announced a pledge to raise $1 million for water projects in Africa. More at http://dotearth.blog s.nytimes.com http://www.clintongl obalinitiative.org
The Wildlife Conservation Society surveyed for western lowland gorillas in northern Congo Republic and found a "motherlode" of more than 125,000, as yet unaffected by Ebola virus or hunting. But threats are rising. More on Dot Earth (nytimes.com/doteart h) and www.wcs.org
The Apollo 8 astronauts read sections from the Bible on Christmas Day, 1968, as they orbited the Moon. More on the remarkable Apollo 8 mission at:
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A huge rotating Earth was a centerpiece at this year's Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, Calif. The meeting explores ways to smooth the human relationship to the home planet. More at http://dotearth.blog s.nytimes.com and http://www.bioneers. org .
More than 2 billion people have no safe place to defecate, and about 1.5 million people, mostly children, die young each year because of water contaminated with waste. What can be done to cut such losses? Explore the issue on Dot Earth, http://www.nytimes.c om/dotearth , and at www.wsscc.org.
It's Thanksgiving in the U.S.A. and a good time to weigh and appreciate the gifts this planet keeps on giving -- including the turkey, whether as part of a feast or simply as an offbeat and grand bird.
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Halfway through a busy day of blogging and reporting on climate and other matters, I broke away from my computer screen to step into the freezing rain and woods for a few minutes with our dog and puppe, Sara and Oscar. Just a moment on this "Eot Earth." More at http://dotearth.blog s.nytimes.com
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