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Hurricane Katrina was in the making long before it struck land in August of 2005. A new IMAX film tells the story of Louisiana’s vanishing wetlands and their role in buffering storms.

Twenty years ago this week, the Voyager 1 spacecraft captured a radical view of Earth. Shot from a distance of 4 billion miles, the "pale blue dot" image showed our planet as a tiny speck amid the vastness of space. Carl Sagan, who lobbied for the photo, said it reduced our entire world to "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

Hundreds of communities far from congested highways and belching smokestacks could soon join America's big cities and industrial corridors in violation of stricter limits on lung-damaging smog proposed Thursday by the Obama administration.

Besides Valentines Day, this weekend has plenty to offer, like the original balloon boy (er, man) at the New Children's Museum, hipster vaudeville at the Casbah, a not-so-mad scientist, and the San Diego Jewish Film Fest.

As fears grow over the possibility of a catastrophic meltdown at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan many are now wondering what would happen to our nuclear power plant if a large earthquake struck near San Diego. We speak to Environment Reporter Ed Joyce about the safety of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

Adeed Dawisha is a professor of political science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Born in Iraq, Dawisha urges the United States to acknowledge that his homeland is a de facto segregated country. He wants American diplomats to urge the Iraqi government toward a peaceful partition or a loosely federated state.

In November 2006, San Diego County voters soundly rejected a proposal to consider Marine Corps Air Station Miramar as an alternative airport site to Lindbergh Field. Now what? UCSD economist Richard C

The upside of sleeping with a corpse is the slim chance of an unwanted pregnancy. & The Republican Party of George Bush and John McCain is a freshly stiffened corpse. & How long will its members lie in bed with it?

This morning, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies said the FDA and NOAA are confusing consumers about the pros and cons of eating seafood. Later today, the Journal of the American Medical Association will publish an analysis of the science on fish benefits and risks.

The TennCare cuts, which followed the resolution of a long-running court battle, affected mostly elderly or disabled residents, including approximately 37,000 who had relied on the state program for all their health care needs.