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Receding Himalayan glaciers Almost six years ago, I was the editor of a single-topic issue on energy for Scientific American that included an article by Princeton University’s Robert Socolow that set out a well-reasoned plan for how to keep atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations below a planet-livable threshold of 560 ppm. The issue came replete with technical solutions that ranged from a hydrogen economy to space-based solar. [More]

New images of a weird weather phenomenon known as a roll cloud have surfaced from Richland, Miss. [More]

By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) - France set a temporary new ban on the cultivation of Monsanto's MON810 genetically modified maize on Friday, after a previous moratorium was annulled by the country's top court in November.

By Charlie Dunmore BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union cannot use the economic slowdown as an excuse to delay action on fighting climate change, the bloc's first-ever chief scientific adviser has warned. Molecular biologist Anne Glover took on the newly created role reporting to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the start of this year, having previously served as chief scientific adviser to Scotland's devolved government.

Even making this image for this blog post violates Pinterest's rules. The Promise – a bold credited, copyright future [More]

Editor's note: The following is adapted from the Rocky Mountain Institute's Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era . [More]

The population of the world’s smallest and rarest dolphins has dropped by half in the past seven years to an estimated 55 individuals , according to research released March 13 by the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC), the University of Auckland and Oregon State University.

Click here for Part One: An Interview with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on Mother Nature

We all multitask, but some of us are especially good at it. This test helps researchers identify "supertaskers," those rare individuals who can execute several mental tasks at once without missing a beat. Are you one of them?

Natural gas production and carbon sequestration may be headed for an underground collision course. [More]

You know the scene--it’s a Friday night, and your date just canceled. You’re bummed, maybe a little hurt.

By Teresa Carson PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - The U.S. [More]

Click here for Part Two: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on the Evolutionary Lessons of Motherhood

The chemical bisphenol A, known as BPA, has become familiar in the past decade, notably to parents searching for BPA-free bottles for their infants.

By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - Global use of nuclear energy could increase by as much as 100 percent in the next two decades on the back of growth in Asia, even though groundbreakings for new reactors fell last year after the Fukushima disaster, a U.N. [More]