Unscientific America Meets Denialism

Mooney and Specter debate causes and cures

By Curtis Brainard   Nov 6, 2009 at 06:36 PM

Michael Specter and Chris Mooney agree that the United States is full of people who just don’t get science, and... More

“Will Work in Copenhagen”

SEJ launches freelancers’ board for climate meeting

By Curtis Brainard   Nov 3, 2009 at 03:48 PM

The United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen this December will undoubtedly be an international media circus of the highest... More

More On Super Freaks and Troubling Temps

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 30, 2009 at 01:39 PM

As I noted in a Wednesday column, a number of reporters have recently had to revisit the most fundamental question... More

The Trouble with Temperature

Press still trying to set the record straight on cool weather

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 28, 2009 at 12:26 PM

Articles about climate change legislation quickly piled up on Tuesday morning as the Senate began debating a proposal to cap... More

“Fix the Climate, or the Kid Gets It”

MoJo’s Copenhagen issue shoots for the big picture

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 23, 2009 at 04:52 PM

A Friday morning headline in Politico noted that it’s “crunch time” for the climate bill currently underway in the Senate.... More

Limbaugh Suggests NYT’s Revkin Should “Kill Himself”

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 20, 2009 at 05:28 PM

There’s commentary and then there’s hateful insanity, and nobody is blurring the line between the two better than Rush Limbaugh.... More

Columbia Suspends Environmental Journalism Program

Falling employment, rising education costs to blame

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 19, 2009 at 02:36 PM

For the first time since it was created fourteen years ago, Columbia University’s highly regarded dual-degree graduate program in environmental... More

SEJ Accused of Protecting Gore

Filmmaker’s criticism is self-serving and wrong, however

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 12, 2009 at 11:39 AM

An independent filmmaker accused the Society of Environmental Journalists of “protecting” Al Gore on Friday after the filmmaker’s mic was... More

Synthetic Biology Still Not a Story

Americans know little about the emerging field, poll finds

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 6, 2009 at 02:15 PM

According to a recent poll, Americans know very little about synthetic biology, which seeks to genetically engineer new forms of... More

Grantham Prize Seminar To Honor Air Pollution Series

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM

Anybody in or around Washington, D.C. on Monday should check out the fourth annual Grantham Prize Seminar on the State... More

Green Rankings a Means, Not an End For Journalists

By Curtis Brainard   Sep 28, 2009 at 04:24 PM

Are you invested in a dirty company? If you work for the state of New York and plan to draw... More

Are Americans Wild Enough?

Ken Burns’s documentary and the debate over how much nature we need

By Curtis Brainard   Sep 25, 2009 at 06:20 PM

On Sunday evening PBS will air Ken Burns’s much anticipated documentary, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. News outlets and... More

Newsweek Ranks 500 Greenest Companies…

But shills for Big Oil in the process

By Curtis Brainard   Sep 22, 2009 at 06:45 PM

The press’s latest attempt to quantify and categorize the environmental track records of myriad businesses attempting burnish their eco-credentials is... More

MinnPost.com Launches “Science Agenda”

Newcomer outlet picks up the slack left by MSM

By Curtis Brainard   Sep 18, 2009 at 04:43 PM

On Thursday, I wrote about a group of thirty-five research universities that have launched a “newswire” called Futurity.org to showcase... More

Is Futurity the Future?

Citing a lack of science coverage, universities launch their own “newswire”

By Curtis Brainard   Sep 17, 2009 at 04:52 PM

Citing the decline of science coverage in the mainstream news media, thirty-five of the country’s top universities have banded together... More

From Hudson to 9/11

Times smartly pairs two lower-Manhattan anniversaries

By Curtis Brainard   Sep 11, 2009 at 04:26 PM

Remember remember the month of September. So says a smart tribute in today’s New York Times, pairing the eighth anniversary... More

EPA Targets Major Emitters

Journal sees an admission that limiting carbon will be costly

By Curtis Brainard   Sep 4, 2009 at 11:41 AM

The Environmental Protection Agency sent a “tailoring rule” to the White House for consideration on Saturday that would limit regulation... More

Can Science Be “Humanized?”

Or is democracy doomed, Harper’s wonders

By Curtis Brainard   Aug 31, 2009 at 09:38 AM

There is a hauntingly dystopian headline in the September issue of Harper’s Magazine: “Dehumanized: When math and science rule the... More

Media Hype Swine Flu Report

Coverage of possible death toll ranges from wrong to remedial

By Curtis Brainard   Aug 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM

On Monday, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology released a report (pdf) about the possible impact of... More

Forbes on ExxonMobil: “Green Company of the Year”

Really?

By Curtis Brainard   Aug 24, 2009 at 12:57 PM

What an eye-grabber! “ExxonMobil: Green Company of Year.” I mean, who woulda thunk it? Too bad the provocative headline of... More