Bruce Dorminey

Oil companies and governments around the world are examining how to uncage huge amounts of methane gas locked up in undersea ice.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Propellers’ role in flight date back to the dawn of engine-driven aviation. But the next generation of propeller-driven aircraft engines will put their rotors back in the spotlight.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Researchers have drilled into the middle of America in hopes of understanding past eras when the Earth burped out huge amounts of greenhouse gases.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Efforts to create a suitable habitat for a striking bird that may or may not be extinct continue a half decade after its reported but uncorroborated resurrection.

• By Bruce Dorminey

In an interview with Miller-McCune.com, meteorologist Kevin Trenberth examines the world’s recently wacky weather and whether it’s a sign of climate change or just routine variability.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Financial theorist and trade historian William J. Bernstein portrays globalization as inevitable and ultimately more benign than malign.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Having survived an extinction scare a century ago, the world's largest waterfowl is stalked by the remnants of past shotgun blasts.

• By Bruce Dorminey

A larger-than-Rushmore size granite memorial to the famous Sioux warrior has been under construction since 1948, but is that really what the Sioux residents in the area need?

• By Bruce Dorminey

North America's grasslands filled an ecological role that goes mostly unfilled in their hugely reduced state.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Hands-off care of the forests around Mount Rushmore may have created a sweet spot for an ancient enemy of the Ponderosa pine — the mountain pine beetle.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Pushed by human development onto the endangered list, the American wood stork is wading back to its historical haunts in the swampy Southeast.

• By Bruce Dorminey

A new satellite will measure to the centimeter just how far gone, or going, the Arctic ice cap really is.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Jacob Zuma says the World Cup can score an economic goal for his country, but a collection of international astronomers meeting in his backyard have a starry-eyed yet down-to-earth suggestion for the developing world.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Giant rocks or snowballs in space, while more likely to hit in Hollywood than anywhere else on Earth, remain a threat that policymakers are taking seriously.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Understanding bears' success at dozing through foodless winters may help human medical care or even impact interstellar flight.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Exceptionally cold temperatures and a vicious bacterium are giving the Sunshine State's citrus trees a battle, but science in on the oranges' side.

• By Bruce Dorminey

From forest trails to NASA missions, researchers are trying to get a handle on what 'old growth' means and how it can be saved.

• By Bruce Dorminey

The eponymous highlights of Glacier National Park are fast disappearing.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Floating solar cells far above Earth and beaming the energy to the grid has shifted from loony to funded.

• By Bruce Dorminey

The looming LCROSS mission's lunar bomb-run could spur humankind's effort to live on the moon — if it does find reasonable quantities of water.

• By Bruce Dorminey

The lure of colonizing space has moved from science fiction to the hard work of figuring out how to do it and what we get out of it.

• By Bruce Dorminey

As summer comes to a close in the Northern Hemisphere, we take a look at the benefits of the unofficial required beverage for the Southern United States.

• By Bruce Dorminey

In preparation for colonizing space, a crack crew of middle-aged rats is colonizing a patch of Barcelona.

• By Bruce Dorminey

New ground and satellite observations will take discussion about geomagnetic pole reversals away from the talk radio shamans and Hollywood schlockmeisters, and give it back to the scientists.

• By Bruce Dorminey

Before hitting the road this summer, you might take a page from the president's campaign playbook and make sure your tires really are properly inflated.

• By Bruce Dorminey

• By Bruce Dorminey

• By Bruce Dorminey

A European satellite scheduled to launch today will provide hard data on rising seas.

• By Bruce Dorminey

• By Bruce Dorminey