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Is climate change a contributing factor to the crisis in Iraq?

Is climate change a contributing factor to the crisis in Iraq?

For this week's Climate Cast, we look at how climate change is playing out in the Iraq crisis.

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Unregulated skies: Keeping watch on America's vertical borders

Unregulated skies: Keeping watch on America's vertical borders

On any given day, 20,000 to 25,000 flights cross U.S. skies. Air and Marine Operations Center agents decide which blip on the radar screen needs to be checked out.
by John Burnett

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Boeing and SpaceX win $6.8 billion in NASA contracts

Boeing and SpaceX win $6.8 billion in NASA contracts

The contracts put the two American companies on a course to take over a job that NASA has recently relied upon Russia to perform: carrying out manned space flights.

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Renovation making waves at U's St. Anthony Falls lab

Renovation making waves at U's St. Anthony Falls lab

The University of Minnesota has completed its renovation of the famous lab on the Mississippi River, adding new research devices that will enable more extensive wind and wave tests.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Robotics industry sees opportunity in farming

MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Kent Cavender-Bares, CEO of Rowbot, about the future of robotic farming and how farmers are currently using automated machinery in the fields.

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What economists can teach climate change scientists

What economists can teach climate change scientists

Bob Litterman, former head of the risk department at Goldman Sachs, explains how risk models common to the financial industry can help craft climate policy.

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Privacy or profit? These firms want to help you sell your data

The goal of a new generations of platforms is to cut out the data-mining middleman by allowing users to share their personal information with companies -- and get paid for it.
by Laura Secorun Palet

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US science suffering from booms and busts in funding

US science suffering from booms and busts in funding

About 16 percent of scientists with sustaining grants in 2012 lost them the following year. That left about 3,500 scientists nationwide scrambling to keep their labs alive
by Richard Harris and Robert Benincasa

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Meteor leaves 40-foot crater near Managua's airport

Meteor leaves 40-foot crater near Managua's airport

There was an unexpected crash landing near the international airport in the Nicaraguan capital over the weekend, but luckily no one was hurt: a small meteorite, thought to have broken off from an Earth-passing asteroid, left a 40-foot-wide crater.

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Hacker breached HealthCare.gov

After a rocky start, the website's performance has improved, and it is estimated that more than 5 million people signed up for insurance through the site.
by Krishnadev Calamur

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