Stories by Mark Fischetti

The record had stood for nearly 30 years: minus 128.6 degrees F (-89.2 C), recorded a few meters above the ground at the Russian Vostok Research Station in East Antarctica.

Google, Yahoo and other search engines make gobs of money from advertisers who pay to have ads pop up when you look for a term. A few more socially minded search engines like Goodsearch and Everyclick donate a few cents to charity when you seek or shop.

Want to know what climate change really means to people? Emily Hinshelwood found out in a most unusual way. For days on end the Welsh poet and writer walked the 121-mile train route known as the Heart of Wales Line and asked every single person she met the same three questions: What images come to [...]

Breaking news can sometime include mistakes, and breaking news emerging from disaster areas can be fraught with errors. Journalists try to do follow-up stories to correct facts, and until then, other journalists reporting on the same event often resort to general language to cover the vagaries.

A creative Google Earth application shows cities flooded under one, 25 even 80 meters of water

More and more products contain more and more caffeine

How do you convince the American public that the entire country, and indeed the entire world, could generate all of its energy from the wind, the sun and water?

Data from Sandy is improving models that can predict storm surge and pinpoint sites for storm barriers

One year ago, on October 29, superstorm Sandy swamped New York City and New Jersey. Although authorities did a terrific job of evacuating people, they were helpless against Sandy’s record-high storm surge.

So you think President Barack Obama’s calls for energy independence have seemed a bit starry-eyed? Well, every U.S. president since Richard Nixon has publicly called for the country to become self-sufficient.

Stunning new maps pinpoint where and when radical temperatures will prevail; beware 2047

After much anticipation, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Friday revealed it’s new assessment of climate change, after two years of deliberation.

Not just trees, but owls, ferns and sunsets take on a surreal, unexpected quality

And see where the country’s radiation monitors are located

Seven graphs, released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, clearly show how global temperature is rising, sea ice is shrinking, snow cover is dwindling, and more

Today, September 16, the massive Costa Concordia cruise liner that crashed onto the Italian island of Giglio is finally being pulled off the jagged rocks that snared it.

Since 1941 we have never gone later than Sept. 11 without a hurricane forming in the Atlantic Ocean. So when the National Hurricane Center upgraded Tropical Storm Humberto to a hurricane early Wednesday morning, Humberto tied the Sept.

Imbalance may prompt people to eat more

Well water in Pennsylvania homes within a mile of fracking sites is found to be high in methane

Lettuce from Spain, avocados from Mexico, pomegranates from Israel—all arrive for your dining pleasure

Half of phytoplankton species—the foundation of marine food chains—could be replaced by new species by 2100

Population rises fast along the oceans, putting people at risk from severe weather

Even without greater storm intensity or frequency, damage from storms could increase sharply by 2050

400 PPM: What’s Next for a Warming Planet Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached this level for the first time in millions of years.