Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet

04/23/2019

Happy Earth Day!

Over a million students around the world skipped school on March 15 to protest government inaction on climate change, with thousands of rallies in 125 countr...

10/27/2018

05/10/2018

Check out this week's Earthweek headlines, and more, at This Planet.

This week, plants, animals and humans. Looks like plants can talk to each other and spiders can learn from scientists. As for humans in the political realm, ...

04/20/2018

Check out some of this week's Earthweek headlines in the latest edition of This Planet.

We are all about the ocean this week! Mutant bacteria could eat the plastic in the giant garbage patch, and an innovation might save the Great Barrier Reef. ...

04/05/2018

Check out the latest Earthweek headlines for this week from our friends at This Planet.

This Planet's How-To edition: How to catch banned seafood and not get caught. How to feel hope about frogs. And how to avoid falling into a yawning gap in th...

03/24/2018

Check out this week's Earthweek headlines and more on "This Planet."

Remember the Titanic? Yeah that's happening again. Also: electric cars are spreading and pesky mice are disappearing.

03/04/2018

Video highlights of this week's Earthweek - Diary of a Changing World.

Yes flamingos are returning to Florida - or maybe they never left. Either way it's cool, but a hot spell in Greenland can temper a good mood.

02/23/2018

This week's video highlights of Earthweek. Have a great weekend!

So you think your weather is weird? Cape Town, S. Africa is about to turn off the taps, and twin cyclones are acting strangely in South East Asia. And then t...

02/17/2018

The week's video version of Earthweek. Please enjoy and share.

This week, water is the enemy: a bad cyclone wipes out an island's capitol and climate change causes the waters to rise. But buck up, it turns out that ants ...

02/12/2018

Severe Tropical Cyclone (Hurricane) Gita raked the tiny South Pacific island nation of Tonga Monday night-early Tuesday morning local time, knocking out power and causing severe flooding. Gita had earlier soaked Samoa.

02/09/2018

Check out this week's video version of Earthweek.

This Planet's Earthweek: - Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano has been belching smoke but will it blow? And is there something to learn from Pliny the Elder (yes!...

01/12/2018

This week's video highlights from Earthweek - Diary of a Changing World.

The weather is bad, the oceans can't breathe. Then there are the killer fleas.