Want to help the people of Ecuador?

Here’s one way. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador last week, and authorities there say it will take “years” to recover — even while the country is rocked by more quakes.

Those Katmandu photos are heartbreaking

If you’ve been keeping up with the devastation wrought by the massive earthquake in Nepal, you may be feeling a little helpless. So yesterday, the New York Times ran a box of organizations soliciting donations to aid the Nepalese in their grief. Here’s a link to that. I almost always choose Doctors Without Borders, as …

Fracking and the Oklahoma earthquakes

I have family in Broken Arrow, Okla. They’re OK but got a little shook up (no pun intended) when a sizable earthquake (magnitude of 5.6) hit near Oklahoma City on Saturday. The earthquake has reopened a long-standing discussion as to whether fracking — or hydraulic fracturing — caused the earthquake. Here’s one explanation. And here’s another. And …