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Feed SubscriptionDrilling for Oil in Eden: Initiative to Save Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador is Uncertain
Pumping gasoline in Quito, Ecuador. Oil drilling threatens the Yasun rainforest
Read More »Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe
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]
Read More »‘Horizontal Tornado’ Captured By Amateur Videographer
New images of a weird weather phenomenon known as a roll cloud have surfaced from Richland, Miss. [More]
Read More »The Promise and Perils of Pinterest
Even making this image for this blog post violates Pinterest's rules. The Promise – a bold credited, copyright future [More]
Read More »Can Radical Efficiency Revive U.S. Manufacturing?
Editor's note: The following is adapted from the Rocky Mountain Institute's Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era . [More]
Read More »Raising Darwin’s Consciousness: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on the Evolutionary Lessons of Motherhood
Click here for Part One: An Interview with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on Mother Nature
Read More »Test Your Multitasking Skills [Interactive]
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?
Read More »Can Fracking and Carbon Sequestration Coexist?
Natural gas production and carbon sequestration may be headed for an underground collision course. [More]
Read More »Sex-Deprived Flies Seek Swig Solace
You know the scene--it’s a Friday night, and your date just canceled. You’re bummed, maybe a little hurt.
Read More »U.S. Government OKs Limited Sea Lion Killings
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Read More »Raising Darwin’s Consciousness: An Interview with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on Mother Nature
Click here for Part Two: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on the Evolutionary Lessons of Motherhood
Read More »How Packaged Food Makes Girls Hyper
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.
Read More »‘Significant’ Nuclear Growth Projected Despite Fukushima
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]
Read More »Warm U.S. Winter Could Spur Early Corn Planting and Tree-Killing Beetles
By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As much of the United States basks in summer-like temperatures, weather and climate experts said this year's warm winter could mean early corn planting, a risk of killing frost for apricots and a baby boom for tree-chomping bark beetles in the West. The winter of 2011-12 was the fourth-warmest in the 117-year record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which uses meteorological winter, which ended on February 29. [More]
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