Scientists who traveled to the Arctic on a NASA research cruise last summer were looking for signs of climate change. What they found was a secret world hidden beneath the region's cap of sea ice. [More]
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By Maha El Dahan and Daniel Fineren ABU DHABI/DUBAI (Reuters) - Talk of a Middle Eastern green energy boom is likely to prove no more than a mirage with little hope of the region saving clean technology companies from the shrinking project pools of Europe.
Read More »Middle East Trails Again in Green Energy Growth
By Maha El Dahan and Daniel Fineren ABU DHABI/DUBAI (Reuters) - Talk of a Middle Eastern green energy boom is likely to prove no more than a mirage with little hope of the region saving clean technology companies from the shrinking project pools of Europe.
Read More »EPA Rules Could Shut 13,000 Megawatts of Midwest Coal Plants
By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) - Proposed federal environmental regulations could shut about 13,000 megawatts of coal fired generation, boost power prices, threaten electric reliability and cost billions to retrofit or replace most of the region's existing coal fleet, according to U.S. power grid operator Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO). [More]
Read More »Indian Ocean Communities Test Tsunami Warning System
By Quirin Schiermeier of Nature magazine After the first full-scale tsunami-warning exercise in the region, Indian Ocean nations say that they are finally ready to take control of a system set up in 2005.
Read More »Tsunami Warning Lifted after Alaskan Islands Quake
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck on Friday in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, the U.S.
Read More »South Central Plains of U.S. Endure Oven-Like Weather
By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Oppressive heat baked the southern Central Plains on Wednesday as the region braced for another stifling day of triple-digit weather, forecasters said. [More]
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