Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
Growing up in Colorado, whose tagline adorns the signs at the state line—Welcome to Colorful Colorado!—we were proud that the words of the song America the Beautiful were written by Katharine Lee Bates, who spent the summer of 1893 teaching at Colorado College and was poetically inspired…
Last week’s Fossil Friday was way too easy, so this week I’ve made things a little trickier. This is a tibia from the Cretaceous, but... What animal did it belong to? First one to guess it wins bragging rights for the week. Answer on Monday, of course…
I’m always on the lookout—or should I say on the listen?—for material to add to Voices for Evolution, NCSE’s compilation of statements supporting the teaching of evolution and opposing attempts to undermine it. In the most recent edition, published in 2008, there were no fewer than 176…
Paul Sinclair of the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media produced this great video to respond to claims that climate change somehow stopped in the last decade and a half. As the video observes, oceans absorb most of the added heat trapped by the human-produced…
“Gnats flitted on the warm, dry, summer breeze, some settling on the surface of Pinecrest Lake. It was strangely overcast, as if storm clouds were gathering over the western foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada. However, before long the unmistakable odor of distant wildfire smoke filled the air…
With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) this past April, we at the NCSE offices have been fielding calls from reporters wanting to know the dish. What are these new standards? How will they affect the teaching of climate change and evolution in public schools? Why do we…
While taking the day off for Labor Day, I couldn’t help thinking about all that the science education community owes labor unions. When a teacher calls NCSE for help fending off pressure from administrators who want to see creationism taught and climate change denied, the first thing we ask is “…
I’m in the process of rereading Donald R. Prothero’s Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future, in preparation of writing a review of it. It’s a fantastic book. Unfortunately, “it’s a fantastic book” is four words long, leaving me the task of finding a further 1996 words to…
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Hunt Janin and Scott A. Mandia's Rising Sea Levels: An Introduction to Cause and Impact (McFarland & Company, 2012). The preview consists of chapter 12, "A Range of Options to Cope with Sea Level Rise," in which Janin and Mandia look "at two…