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Thanks to credit crunches and slow sales, experts say the key to budgeting for 2012 is being prepared for the worst. Here are the simple steps to building a bulletproof budget.

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Summer monsoons that provide up to 80 percent of the water South Asia needs have gotten drier in the past half century, possibly due to aerosol particles spewed by burning fossil fuels, climate scientists said on Thursday. [More]

To break out of the mismanaged systems in which we find ourselves, we could turn to robots, whose cold logic would override our selfish needs. Or we could turn to social entrepreneurs, who work outside the system to find new solutions. A few years ago in the wake of the failure of governments to sign an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases in Copenhagen, we fell into a discussion on fixing the system: Let’s get computers to do it for us.

Fun and Functions products for special-needs kids were a hit with parents.

Some businesses are using social networks to find mentors for their staff. Kathleen Lim wanted to move up the learning curve.

The founder of the Slow Money movement makes the case for the kinds of return on investment you get when you put money into your local community. Is there such a thing as money that is too fast, companies that are too big, investments that are too abstract and securities that are too complex

The oil and gas business never changes! You get oil out of the ground, turn it into gas and put it in your car. Nothing ever changes, right?

If you going to ask for a handout, do so carefully and deliberately. You don't want to just jump into a relationship with an investor.

Whether you have a few company cars or a fleet of several dozen trucks, you can save money on fuel by making minor changes to your operations and driving.

Microbes are everywhere, and most are harmless. But tightly sealed buildings--like hospitals or offices--create places where only dangerous bugs survive

Using a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to help avoid stopping, SignalGuru can keep drivers from idling, the most fuel consuming--and frustrating--part of driving. Traffic lights are a necessary nuisance, but they're also incredibly bad for the environment. Idling vehicles in backed up traffic soak up fuel, and are a source of needless emissions

Instead of constantly buying and discarding new products, what if everything was specifically designed to be recycled or broken down, mimicking the circular process of (non-human) life on earth? Our economy, you might have noticed, is founded largely on a culture of consumption and disposal

(PhysOrg.com) -- When generating entanglement between two objects, physicists typically try to minimize the objects’ interactions with the environment, since this interaction causes decoherence. But contrary to this thinking, scientists in a new study have experimentally demonstrated that dissipation caused by interaction with the environment can continuously generate entanglement between two macroscopic objects (two ensembles of cesium atoms containing about 1 trillion atoms all together).

Some politicians seem to have it in for the environment these days. Whether its presidential hopeful Rick Perry denouncing climate science as a quote " cult " or his more moderate peer Jon Huntsman calling for environmental regulations to be put on hold until the economy improves, it's clear that protecting our air, water and other natural resources is no longer fashionable. [More]

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Plants and animals are responding up to three times faster to climate change than previously estimated, as wildlife shifts to cooler altitudes and latitudes, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists have reported this decade on individual species that moved toward the poles or uphill as their traditional habitats shifted due to global warming, but this study analyzed data on over 2,000 species to get a more comprehensive picture