December 2010
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Most-Read OnEarth Features of 2010
Here are the stories from our website and magazine that received the most pageviews at onearth.org this year:
1. Digging Into New York City’s Trashy History
2. Gulf Shrimpers Wonder: “Are We Next on the Extinction List?”
3. “Missile With Fins” Aimed at Great Lakes (technically published in December 2009)
4. Grolar Bears and Narlugas: Rise of the Arctic Hybrids
5. How to Wage War on Food...
Are New York's Bike Lanes Working? →
Mayor Koch’s bicycle network died quickly. Mayor Bloomberg’s is remaking the streets of the city. What is the verdict so far?
“All the ladies love E.O. Wilson!”
– The Human Factor
Favorite reader comment ever.
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Favorite (Mostly Environmental) Longreads of 2010 →
scottdodd:
For those of us who enjoy long-form narrative journalism, the Longreads phenomenon has been one of the most delightful developments of 2010. (Get the backstory here.) In the spirit of year-end lists being published by longread fans across the Internet this week, here are my picks for 2010. (I deliberately avoided selecting any stories from my own magazine — otherwise, they’d fill up...
The Best Longreads of 2010: Science, Medicine &... →
longreads:
Third and final round in our “Best #longreads of 2010” collaboration with BrainPickings.org. Today: Science, Medicine & Tech—with stories from Amy Harmon, Andrew Rice, Jerome Groopman, Logan Ward, The Oil Drum, Lawrence Lessig, and more.
What, no OnEarth? Maybe next year. In the meantime, interesting list. Ours is coming soon!
Antarctic Adventure: Deepwater Gliders Help Reveal... →
Santa, I want a deepwater glider for Christmas, please.
“This was the year the Earth struck back. Earthquakes, heat waves, floods,...”
– 2010’s world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards - Associated Press
RT @shadetreader: Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, godlike technology… bad combination. http://www.onearth.org/article/the-h …
RT @NRDC: The Efficiency Dilemma: If our machines use less energy, will we just use them more? http://nyr.kr/fAWS5X
The Atchafalaya Basin: Louisiana’s Great Wet Hope? (latest in our “Losing Louisiana” series) http://bit.ly/f1z96D
How could we have missed this back in November?...
“Today was the day it became clear, to me at least, that New York City is...”
– If People Are Going To Ride Bicycles In New York In This Weather, We Can’t Win
“Refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given...”
– Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon issued the above directive in an email to the network’s journalists, sent during last year’s climate change conference in Copenhagen. The note was apparently sent soon after a correspondent reported that 2000-2009 was on track to be the warmest decade...
“Winter
A little heat in the iron radiator,
the dog breathing at the foot of...”
– A poem by Billy Collins, from our Winter issue (seemed appropriate today).
Obama signs import ban on Asian bighead carp →
Seems a little late, dontchathink?
