Science Is Constantly Evolving
Discover the latest in climate change and evolution education news.
A milestone: there are now over 60,000 fans of NCSE's Facebook page. Why not join them, by visiting the page and becoming a fan by clicking on the "Like" box by NCSE's name? You'll receive the latest NCSE news delivered straight to your Facebook Home page, as well as updates on evolution-related…
Last Sunday's Cosmos took on the related concepts of extinction and climate change, topics I’ve had on my mind since reviewing The Sixth Extinction and interviewing author Elizabeth Kolbert. Neil deGrasse Tyson walks us through many of the great extinctions in history, the…
In part 1, after a cryptic reference to The Mariner’s Mirror, I was discussing how, while writing a review of Eugene Byrne and Simon Gurr’s excellent Darwin: A Graphic Biography for Evolution: Education and Outreach, I became preoccupied with two questions of…
NCSE was on hand for the release of the third National Climate Assessment. Produced by a team of more than 300 experts, the NCA summarizes the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future. When it was unveiled at the White House on May 6, 2014, NCSE's Mark McCaffrey was…
During the panel discussion at the White House Tuesday about the release of the National Climate Assessment (NCA) report, I admitted that what keeps me up late at night is worrying that we haven’t done everything possible to prepare our children for the climate changes that are already happening.…
When NCSE started its climate change program just over two years ago, we encountered a lot of skepticism–but not from the usual suspects. We expected the climate change denial folks to argue that there was limited science behind climate change, so how could we advocate teaching of it? We also…
NCSE is pleased to welcome Stephanie Keep as the new editor of its journal Reports of the National Center for Science Education. She succeeds Andrew J. Petto, who is retiring from the post after nearly twenty years of service. "I'm thrilled to become part of NCSE's team working to…
Biblical fundamentalists and their opponents on the extreme opposite end of the spectrum of belief often share one significant assumption: in order to contribute to modern science you have to be an atheist. That is, you cannot at the same time believe in a personal God and accept the scientific…
It is a credit to the professionalism of the staff at the California State Library in Sacramento that my request for a bound volume of the journal The Mariner’s Mirror from 1975—a request, I’m willing to wager, unique in their experience—raised not a single eyebrow. Had they asked,…