Stories by Mark Fischetti

The Human Cost of Energy

Fossil fuels exact the biggest toll in terms of lives lost

The Health Care Burden of Fossil Fuels

A special online-only addition to September 2011's Graphic Science

The Efficient City

Municipalities worldwide are exploiting a host of creative solutions to reduce energy consumption, water use, waste and emissions, while also making it easier for people to get around

Bold Solutions Make Real Cities More Efficient [Interactive]

Municipalities worldwide are introducing a host of creative solutions to reduce energy consumption, water use, waste and emissions, while also making it easier for people to get around...

The Smartest Cities Will Use People as Their Sensors [Video]

By networking individuals and their gadgets, urban apps will tell inhabitants what is happening all around them, in real time

Review: New Documentary Explains Engineering Failures That Drowned New Orleans during Katrina

The Big Uneasy will make you squirm in your chair for two reasons: one good, one bad.The sixth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is fast approaching, and New Orleans has little more protection against storm surges than it did before the monster hurricane struck...

Radiation from Cell Phones and Other Electronic Devices [Graphic]

A special online-only addition to August 2011's Graphic Science

Bombarded: Electromagnetic Radiation of Our Own Making Fills the "Empty" Air

Female Education Reduces Infant and Childhood Deaths

Smarter maternal decisions prevent leading causes of mortality

Baby's Life, Mother's Schooling: Child Mortality Rates Decline as Women Become Better Educated

Child mortality rates decline as women become better educated

The Nose Knows: How Malaria Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Targets [Slide Show]

Researchers are learning much more about how Anopheles gambiae , the primary malaria mosquito, uses its smell organs to find human targets; the work involved stunning images from scanning electron microscopes...

Will the Internet Stop on June 8?

Companies and individuals have gobbled up nearly every Internet protocol address available

How Close Do You Live to a Nuclear Reactor? [Interactive map]

The U.S. has 104 operating nuclear reactors. Most are more than 30 years old; 23 have the same containment design as Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plants that were breached by the March earthquake and tsunami; and a handful are close to intense earthquake zones...

How Much Do Wildfires Cost in Terms of Property Damage?

Global warming could send more money up in smoke

Climate Change Increases Threat of Fire to U.S. West

Global warming could scorch the western U.S.

Exposed: Medical Imaging Delivers Big Doses of Radiation

Radiation Sources Range from Cigarettes to CT Scans

How many millisieverts are you getting? A special online-only addition to May 2011's Graphic Science

Space rock: Vote for the new NASA wake-up song

Clean Tech Rising

China outshines the U.S. as the top investor, while Europe is a close third

The Dead Sea Is Disappearing, but It Could Be Saved [Slide Show]

Scientists analyze sinkholes and how mixing waters might alter the sea