By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration proposed on Tuesday the first ever standards to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants, a move likely to be hotly contested by Republicans and industry in an election year. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed the long-delayed rules that limit emissions from all new U.S. [More]
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Read More »Scarce Resources May Slow Low-Carbon Growth
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Dwindling supplies of metals, water and biomass could slow the deployment of clean energy technologies by 2035, a study by research organization the Stockholm Environment Institute and by business initiative 3C showed on Tuesday. Governments and companies are increasingly developing low-carbon technologies to reduce their dependency on fossil fuel-based energy sources and to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Read More »Is Human Impact Accelerating Out of Control?
LONDON -- The impact of human activity on the Earth is running out of control, and the amount of time in which action can be taken to prevent potentially catastrophic climate change is rapidly dwindling, a leading scientist from the Australian National University told a global scientific climate conference in London yesterday.
Read More »Pupfish, Downfish: Subterranean Tsunami Gives Vertical Shakes to the Water-Hole Home of Endangered Fishes
On March 20 a National Park Service biologist named Jeffrey Goldstein and I descended a rocky incline into the mouth of Devils Hole, a collapsed cave in the Nevada desert 40 miles south of the visitor’s center in Death Valley.
Read More »Ecotourism Does Not Overly Stress Orangutans, Study Finds
What can poop tell us about orangutans? Well, for one thing, a study of wild orangutan feces has revealed that these great apes, unlike some other species, are not chronically stressed by ecotourism
Read More »Birth Control Pills Have Lasting Effects on Relationships
Birth-control pills are known to affect women’s taste in men, at least in laboratory experiments.
Read More »Scientists investigate mystery of telephone cord buckles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ranging in thickness from a few nanometers to several micrometers, thin films and coatings play a role in a wide variety of applications.
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Read More »Who Owns the Past?
A rare set of nearly 10,000-year-old human bones found in 1976 on a seaside bluff in La Jolla, Calif., may soon be removed from the custody of the University of California, San Diego, and turned over to the local Kumeyaay Nation tribes.
Read More »Rhythm and Music Help Math Students
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Read More »Budget cuts portend new direction for Fermilab’s Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists working at Fermilab, the premier particle physics lab in the United States, have been asked to rework their plans for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) in light of current and expected budget cuts.
Read More »Researchers Ferret Out Reasons For Runner’s High
You've probably had the feeling. Your running shoes are pounding the pavement--then suddenly your pain fades away, and you're feeling euphoric
Read More »Martian Water Stuck In Minerals
Mars today is pretty dry. But billions of years ago, water flowed across the red planet. It ran in rivers that carved deep valleys.
Read More »Martian Water Stuck In Minerals
Mars today is pretty dry.
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