Glaciologist Jason Box is racing to figure out just how rapidly we’re pushing the 23 feet of sea rise level locked in the Greenland ice sheet onto our shores.
Lance Armstrong’s “no-holds-barred” interview with Oprah Winfrey this week comes as a federal probe into his finances has widened to focus on the man who bankrolled the disgraced cyclist's champion teams.
As the White House considers proposals to allocate federal money for armed guards in schools, school discipline reform groups have issued a report denouncing the idea as a misguided reaction to the shooting in Newtown, Conn.
The 1,000-page National Climate Assessment draft report, the work of the more than 300 government scientists and outside experts, was unequivocal on the human causes of climate change, and on the links between climate change and extreme weather.
CIR's Lance Williams, who has written extensively about investigations involving Lance Armstrong, shares his thoughts on the cyclist's upcoming interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Most people (about a billion) will look back on 2012 and recall the colorful, wacky and pulsating phenomenon that was "Gangnam Style." But 2012 was also declared the Year of News on YouTube.