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Rob Gillies and his team gather data on Nepal’s changing climate for a research project. They log temperatures, raindrops and snow. They pump the numbers into powerful computers and read the trend lines the computers ...
Solar Impulse has the wingspan of Boeing 747 but weighs only as much as a Subaru Outback. It shows that environmentalism is anything but boring.
The strategy, modeled after anti-apartheid campaigns of the 1980s, aims to limit the flow of capital to fossil fuel companies by making their stocks morally and financially unattractive.
A blistering heat wave has swept across most parts of north and western India, causing massive electricity cuts and leading angry residents to protest and even attack power company officials and property.
Redford, now 76, also had critical words for the US's never-ending drive for economic and technological development, which he considers has been a damaging force. "We are in a dire situation; the planet is speaking with a very loud voice. In the US we call it Manifest Destiny, where we keep pushing and developing, never mind what you destroy in your wake, whether its Native American culture or the natural environment.
This American Life, one of the most listenable and ingenious hourly shows that public radio has ever offered, has done a piece on climate change, that a lot of people have told me about. Finally got the chance to listen, and its well worth it. I recommend putting it on when you have some quiet work to do.
The tornado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb destroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday.
A typical pair of synthetic trainers generates 30lbs of emissions, equivalent to leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for a week
Maybe the most devastating aspect of styrofoam packaging is that it’s useful for a matter of days or hours--say, while a product ships--but it lasts for a millennium. Plastics like styrofoam currently take up between 25% and 30% of our landfill space, and a single cubic foot of styrofoam has the same energy content as about one and a half liters of gasoline. That’s a lot of impact for just a little bit of value.
Geological Survey report is first to document rapid disappearance of amphibian species.
Research published in the Journal of Pediatrics showed that exposure to phalates in packaging can cause metabolic and hormonal abnormalities, especially during childhood.
You may have missed it, because you had more important things to do – like worry about your mortgage, choice of kids school, extreme weather events or the Syrian conflict. Earlier in 2013, the chief executive of Toyota Motors mentioned plans to begin to eradicate the use of Terbium from all its cars. This casual mark was in fact a major statement of intent by a forward looking business leader. Why so? Terbium is used in the magnets of electric motors in Toyota's hybrid vehicles. The problem is that Terbium is a rare earth element, the type also used in computers and mobile phones, and increasingly in such short supply that many analysts predict supply to outstrip demand in a couple of years.
Top executives of the two largest U.S. derivatives exchanges say regulators must take further steps to align Dodd-Frank Act rules with those of foreign counterparts to avoid oversight splits that could harm markets.
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Dr. Ernest Moniz was sworn in as the new Energy Secretary this week. Last week, the previous Secretary, Dr. Steven Chu, gave an interview to Stanford where he is returning as a physics professor. The Nobel laureate was asked “What’s the No.
China is taking steps to tackle its huge carbon output. Today, the country announced the details of its first carbon trading program, which will begin in the city of Shenzhen next month.
Tornadoes will happen—and some towns, like Moore, may even be hit multiple times. But there are steps we can take to make homes and schools more resistant to tornadoes—and ensure that people survive the next twister, even if property doesn't.
THE Scottish Government today gave the green light for the world’s largest wave power scheme, to be developed in the stormy seas off the coast of the Western Isles.
New report explores how beneficial converting U.S. power from coal to natural gas could be under different methane leakage rates.
BEIJING (Reuters) - The discovery of dangerous levels of toxic cadmium in rice sold in the southern city of Guangzhou, the latest in a series of food scandals, has piled more pressure on China to clean...
BEACH HAVEN WEST, N.J. — By now, Charles and Toni Silvani were supposed be living full time at the modest waterfront house they had worked on for 13 years as their retirement home.
House appropriators yesterday proposed allocating $24.3 billion to the subcommittee that funds the Interior Department, Forest Service and U.S. EPA for next fiscal year, a level that would likely require significant cuts to a host of conservation programs, clean water grants, and climate change and habitat restoration work, environmentalists warned.
In an extraordinary warning, 1.3 million residents in and around Montreal were told their tap water was unsafe to drink, further eroding the public’s trust in the stewardship of a city mired in infrastructure woes and corruption scandals. Residents are advised to boil their water for at least a minute, or to use bottled water
In a rare display of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, a group of key senators unveiled legislation Wednesday that would require chemical companies to provide more health and safety information about their products and give regulators more power to...
The Greek yogurt boom has produced an unfortunate byproduct: tons and tons of whey. Greek yogurt is a booming $2 billion a year industry — and it's producing millions of pounds of waste that industry insiders are scrambling to figure out what to do with.
Flies are more than a nuisance in your chicken run. They carry disease and spread bacteria which can lead to E. Coli, Salmonella, Listeria, New Castle Disease, Dysentery and other germs that are harmful to both your family and your flock. Eating the resulting maggots in wet feed can also lead to botulism in your flock. This past winter was so mild that the flies have returned in droves this spring. They are drawn to moisture and puddles, wet bedding, damp feed and chicken poop.
I tried a few different ways to repel the flies, but this DIY Fly Catcher is easy to make, effective and an inexpensive way to rid your chicken run of flies.
International Monetary Fund says U.S. getting carried away with government austerity drive
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