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When we visited his office on the Warner Bros. lot for this year's 100 Most Creative People in Business package , Conan O'Brien opened up about how he works.

Dear EarthTalk : I heard someone say that legalizing pot--as Californians considered doing last year--would benefit the environment. How would that be? --William T., Portland, Ore.

Thinking of going green? Switching to eco-packaging can be tricky. These steps will make the process a little smoother.

GTherm's new technology solves the unfortunate side effect of harvesting the Earth's heat--serious tremors.

By Quirin Schiermeier of Nature magazine After months of soul-searching, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has agreed on reforms intended to restore confidence in its integrity and its assessments of climate science. Created as a United Nations body in 1988 to analyze the latest knowledge about Earth's changing climate, it has worked with thousands of scientists and shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. [More]

Gliese 581d was thought to be uninhabitable. But we're in luck. It seems like a lovely place to live

Coal Cares was just a parody of what it would look like if the coal industry targeted kids. But the coal industry's actual marketing to children, (with an assist from Scholastic), is much more insidious.

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study, scientists have proposed that mini black holes may interact with matter very differently than previously thought. If the proposal is correct, it would mean that the time it would take for a mini black hole to swallow the Earth would be many orders of magnitude longer than the age of the Universe.

01 / Nissan > > For creating the Leaf, the first mass-market, all-electric car. To make the switch from gas to electricity easier, Nissan is working with electric companies and cities, such as Houston, to build public charging networks.

MURCHISON SHIRE, Western Australia--The pilot of the eight-passenger Cessna turboprop lines up the nose of his plane with a red-dirt landing strip ahead, a band of cleared Earth not all that different from the flat, sparsely vegetated terrain below.

Wondering what it's like to explore Osama Bin Laden's now famous compound? Google Earth Blog points us to the Google 3D Warehouse , where a number of 3D modelers have taken it upon themselves to sketch up Bin Laden's home--in both serious and amusing detail. Once you've found a model you like, you can view it in Google Earth and feel even more like you're wandering around Pakistan.

Google exec Marissa Mayer talked at a conference Wednesday about how the company has changed--and hasn't--under recently installed CEO Larry Page. Longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer was asked at a conference on Wednesday what had changed, now that Larry Page has moved into the CEO spot.

Dorfman Jewelers is presenting a collection of 15 rare color diamonds, including blue, pink, yellow, and green, at its store on Newbury Street in Boston on May 11 and 12. The event is designed to showcase some of the earth’s rarest treasures, and experts will be on hand to inform ...

In the hybrid model, a nonprofit and a for-profit are linked. In some cases, one is a subsidiary of the other; in others, the two entities are bound by long-term contracts in which one entity fulfills a basic need for the other and vice versa.

OV-105, as Space Shuttle Endeavour is designated by NASA, is due to fly into space for the final time today