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Between 2005 and 2011 British household incomes have tumbled below those of rich-nation counterparts in Switzerland, Australia, Austria, France, Canada, Belgium and Sweden, according to a new analysis from the UK's Office of National Statistics.

Oxford, England (UPI) May 16, 2013 -
Stimulation applied to a brain area known to be important for math ability has been shown to improve the ability to manipulate numbers, British researchers say.

Vancouver, Canada (SPX) May 17, 2013 -
Climate change has been impacting global fisheries for the past four decades by driving species towards cooler, deeper waters, according to University of British Columbia scientists.

Boulder CO (SPX) May 17, 2013 - While 99 percent of Earth's land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world's glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets comb...

Russian explorers headed home Thursday after proving it is possible to drive from Russia to Canada across the North Pole, in buses with bloated tires over drifting ice, using a pickaxe to clear the way.

A new app allows you to scan a product in the supermarket aisle and learn who exactly is behind that box of cereal.                                                  In her keynote speech at last year’s annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burnerpitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience. The former Microsoft MSFT +0.72%programmer and congressional candidate proposed a smartphone app allowing shoppers to swipe barcodes to check whether conservativebillionaire industrialists Charles and David Kochwere behind a product on the shelves.

With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court

A new paper details the culprits behind excess emissions of the potent greenhouse gas in the Los Angeles basin

Of more than 4,000 academic papers published over 20 years, 97.1% agreed that climate change is anthropogenic

Fish species have shifted their ranges as ocean temperatures increase in response to global warming, a new study found

While it’s true that on a gallon-to-gallon basis ethanol historically has been cheaper than gasoline, ethanol contains far less energy than gasoline and therefore has cost consumers more to travel the same distance...

Maps show impact of overcutting old-growth forests, conservation groups say

With soaring costs, stagnating incomes and little help from the government, there is only one way to pay for higher education: debt.

Beijing (AFP) May 16, 2013 - Nearly 1,000 people took to the streets of the Chinese city of Kunming on Thursday in a renewed protest against a proposed chemical plant, media reports said, with Internet users voicing support.

Davis CA (SPX) May 17, 2013 - Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic began, acco...

Santa Barbara CA (SPX) May 17, 2013 - When UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Seeta Sistla and her adviser, environmental studies professor Josh Schimel, went north not long ago to study how long-term warming in the Arctic affects carbon...

Battieres accounted for 27% of global lithium consumption.

Companies including Wal-Mart, Gap and Target opted out; retailers cited fear of lawsuits over pact’s terms.

Climate scientist Ralph Keeling has followed in the footsteps of his father, who pioneered the measurement of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Tensions are running high in an Alaskan village immediately threatened by climate change

Asian powers keen on shipping and development given observer status; EU and Greenpeace kept out

This article originally appeared on CleanTechnica sister site The Inspired Economist. To learn about sustainable economics, see Special Reports by The Inspired Economist.


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Even if there is enough lithium to displace the 1 billion internal combustion engine cars that now pollute the earth with electric cars, it is the electronic waste problem that should dominate the question.