The PBS “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” is known for high quality broadcast journalism, and the program’s website has created a series of science-related “In-Depth” reports that reflect those high standards. Most of these packages include news reports, slide shows, interactive features, and often, lesson plans.

Several of the in-depth packages will be updated once or twice a month to reflect breaking news. These topics include a package on The Global Warming Debate that describes the scientific evidence for climate change, explains the “greenhouse effect,” summarizes the policy debate in the U.S., and even allows users to see how much carbon their automobile puts into the atmosphere. Other frequently updated packages describe Mars Exploration Rovers and Polar Discoveries.

Some PBS Online NewsHour packages will be updated less frequently, perhaps once or twice a year. These incude Predicting Earthquakes, Tracking Hurricanes, and the Hubble and Webb Telescopes. There are also NewsHour packages that will not change, including The Pluto Debate, Search for Ancestors, Chimeras (Animal-Human Hybrids), Coral Reefs, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology, Nanotechnology, Wind Power, The Science of Aging, Adult Stem Cells, and The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Keep checking for other “New in NSDL” posts that describe PBS NewsHour Online science packages in more detail.