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Arctic ice: Less than meets the eye
Electricity Out of Thin Air Could Be The Next Big Power Source
Finland Plans to Build the World's First 'Green Highway'
Add salt as required: the recipe for fresh water
Horned turtles butchered to extinction
Antibacterial socks may boost greenhouse emissions
RFID Chips Can Be Made of Wood, to Tag Trees Without Adulterating the Timber
Atomic Jenga could turn domestic refrigerators green
Beyond decibels: Planning the new sounds of the city
Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950
Road killed: Australia's common wombat could soon be uncommon
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Costs and values: The legacy of the Exxon Valdez disaster
Weather or Not?: Last Winter's Record Snow Driven by Short-Term Meteorologic Patterns, Not Long-Term Climate Change
E. coli engineered to make convenient 'drop-in' biofuel
US food waste worth more than offshore drilling
Galapagos: off the danger list, still in danger
Which oil-mopping technology will win $1.4m X prize?
Solar cycle may drive Venice's floods
Some trees 'farm' bacteria to help supply nutrients
Chemicals are likely cause of feminization of fish present in two rivers in Alberta, Canada, researchers find
Black carbon implicated in global warming
Reforestation projects capture more carbon than industrial plantations, new research reveals
Research of cell movements in developing frogs reveals new twists in human genetic disease
Happy 35th birthday, global warming!
Toilet Tech: A Power Generator Turns Falling Wastewater Into Electricity
Environmental Visionaries: The Solar Roadrunner
Six Quiet Climate Villains
Climate control: Is CO2 really in charge?
Ice shelf was kept intact by underwater ridge
The Green Dream: Going Gray, Saving Blue
Environmental Visionaries: The Nuclear Revivalist
Ancient oceans belched stagnant CO2 into the skies
Climate Change Commitment II
BP's three-pronged attack on Deepwater Horizon leak
Terrifying Sinkhole Opens in Guatemala, Swallows Three-Story Building
Did early hunters cause climate change?
Ocean heat content increases update
Malaria in retreat despite warmer climate
Pinocchio frog and dwarf wallaby: New species found
What we can learn from studying the last millennium (or so)
Plenty of wave energy to be harvested close to shore
Dents in Earth's gravitational field due to plumes
Claude Allègre: The Climate Imposter
World grabs more and more toilet paper
Gallery: Earth From Above
World's third-largest dam gets the go-ahead
Blame the volcano trouble on sun and global warming
Forensic DNA blow to commercial whaling proposals
Skip the hard cell: Flexible solar power is on its way
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Warmth of Human Bodies Waiting Below Ground for Paris Metro Will Heat New Apartment Complex Heating Buildings With the Paris Metro Pline via Wikimedia Leave it to the French to do something that's undeniably awesome yet leaves us feeling somewhat uncomfortable at the same time. An experimental heating system, being installed in a public housing project in Paris, will use the warmth generated by human bodies in a nearby Metro station to heat the building. The system will tap the caloric heat emitted by the passengers milling about below..
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MIT's Self-Assembling Solar Cells Recycle Themselves Repeatedly, Just Like Plant Cells MIT's Test Cell Patrick Gillooly, MIT Plants are extremely efficient converters of light into energy, more or less setting the bar for researchers creating photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity. As such, researchers are constantly trying to mimic the tricks that millions of years of evolution and development have taught to plant biology. Now, a team of MIT scientists believe they've done it, creating a synthetic, self-assembl..
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Oil Rig Explodes in the Gulf of Mexico (Again) Miss the good old days of daily oil disaster news Worry not, for another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded this morning, leaving all 13 crew members in the water but - according to initial reports - all are alive and only one is injured. The rig is owned by Mariner Energy (somewhere a BP exec is breathing again) and is not currently producing, according to the Coast Guard. Updated. Details are sketchy right now, but rescuers are en route to..
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Future Mars Colonists Could Learn To Terraform By Studying Darwin's Methods Ascension Island Charles Darwin's artificial forest captures moisture from clouds that drift over the volcanic peaks on Ascension Island. Google Earth The father of evolution apparently played God with a tropical ecosystem 160 years ago, and the results could inform future experiments to terraform Mars, botanists say. The BBC recounts how Charles Darwin helped build an artificial forest on Ascension Island, one of his subjects of study from his t..
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Climate Villain Bjørn Lomborg Does U-Turn, Says Global Warming is a $100 Billion Problem Bjorn Lomborg Lomborg.com Apparently, some tigers can change their stripes -- especially if they have books to sell. One of our favorite climate villains, the Danish economist Bjørn Lomborg, has apparently warmed to the idea of climate change, and now says it's a problem on which the world ought to spend $100 billion annually. Lomborg's forthcoming book, Smart Solutions to Climate Change, declares that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the c..
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IPCC report card Update: Nature has just published a thoughtful commentary on the report The Inter-Academy Council report on the processes and governance of the IPCC is now available. It appears mostly sensible and has a lot of useful things to say about improving IPCC processes – from suggesting a new Executive to be able to speak for IPCC [...]..
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Doing it yourselves Surface temperature data sets, surfactemperatures.org, Hadley, Broberg, GSOD, McShane and Wyner, paleoclimate reconstructions, BAMS State of the Climate 2009..
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The Key to the Secrets of the Troposphere A response from Justin Wood, writing to me from Australia after my previous post (cited with permission below), has prompted me to write a follow-up on the story of the greenhouse effect (GHE). I wonder if you’ve seen this terrible description of the greenhouse effect on a UNFCCC background page http://unfccc.int/essential_background/feeling_the_heat/items/2903.php It actually says that incoming [...]..
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Monckton makes it up Christopher Monckton, Lord Monckton, Viscount of Brenchley, making stuff up...
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Expert Credibility in Climate Change – Responses to Comments Expert credibility in climate science, consensus and the Anderegg PNAS study..
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How Much Global Warming Is Guaranteed Even If We Stopped Building Coal-Fired Power Plants Today? Humanity has yet to reach the point of no return when it comes to catastrophic climate change, according to new calculations. If we content ourselves with the existing fossil-fuel infrastructure we can hold greenhouse gas concentrations below 450 parts per million in the atmosphere and limit warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels--both common benchmarks for international efforts to avoid the worst impacts of ongoing climate..
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In the Market for Pollution: Carbon Trade or Carbon Con? NEW YORK--A company recycles a product, doing its part for the environment through reuse, only to be told it's worth more to destroy it. Welcome to the wonderful world of the carbon market, especially for a company that deals in refrigerants.These gases, culprits in no less than two environmental crimes--the ozone hole and climate change--are required to efficiently cool your food and beverages. Yet, chlorofluorocarbons, to give them their proper..
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Lunar Pencil Lead: Graphite Found in Moon Rock Collected During Apollo 17 Humans have not set foot on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972, but those missions are still producing surprises. An analysis of a collected rock has produced the first solid evidence for graphite, the form of carbon commonly used as pencil lead, in a lunar sample.Andrew Steele, an astrobiologist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and his colleagues reported in the July 2 Science that they found dozens of graphite particles in a small, ..
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Deepwater doom: Extinction threat for world's smallest sea horse The Gulf of Mexico oil spill this year and subsequent cleanup efforts could drive the world's smallest sea horse into extinction, warns the Zoological Society of London and its marine conservation organization Project Seahorse . The tiny dwarf sea horse ( Hippocampus zosterae ), which grows to a maximum length of 2.5 centimeters, can be found only in the ocean waters off the Gulf Coast. [More] Gulf of Mexico - oilsp..
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Burn, baby, burn: Student-engineered stoves put to the test by Tanzanian women Editor's Note: Students from Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering are working in Tanzania to help improve sanitation and energy technologies in local villages. The student-led group , known as Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects (HELP), will file dispatches from the field during their trip. This is their ninth blog post for Scientific American. [More] Tanzania - Dartmouth College - Thayer School ..
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Gene discovery holds key to growing crops in cold climates Fresh insight into how plants slow their growth in cold weather could help scientists develop crops suited to cooler environments...
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Main climate threat from carbon dioxide sources yet to be built New energy-efficient or carbon-free technologies can help cut carbon dioxide emissions, but what about the power plants, cars, trucks, and other fossil-fuel-burning devices already in operation Unless forced into early retirement, they will emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for decades to come. Scientists have calculated the amount of carbon dioxide expected to be released from existing energy infrastructure worldwide, and then used a globa..
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In attracting mates, male bowerbirds appear to rely on special optical effect Bowerbird males are well known for making elaborate constructions, lavished with decorative objects, to impress and attract their mates. Now, researchers have identified a completely new dimension to these showy structures in great bowerbirds. The birds create a staged scene, only visible from the point of view of their female audience, by placing pebbles, bones, and shells around their courts in a very special way that can make objects (or a bow..
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In order to save biodiversity, society's behavior must change, leading conservationists warn Conservation scientists and practitioners have come together to advocate a fundamental shift in the way we view biodiversity. They argue that unless people recognize the link between their consumption choices and biodiversity loss, the diversity of life on Earth will continue to decline...
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Phoenix Mars Lander finds surprises about red planet's watery past Liquid water has interacted with the Martian surface throughout Mars' history, measurements by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest. The findings also suggest that liquid water has primarily existed at temperatures near freezing, implying hydrothermal systems similar to Yellowstone's hot springs on Earth have been rare on Mars throughout its history...
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Cane toads aren't quite the bad guys we thought It's invaded Australia, but the cane toad has not triggered the ecological catastrophe that some predicted..
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The eight failures that caused the Gulf oil spill A long-awaited BP report lists eight reasons for the accident that caused its catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill..
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Meet William the Concherer, the dolphin that can fish A "conching" dolphin captured on film suggests the marine mammal uses the massive shell to trap and stun fish..
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Bees and climate change cleared in pollination mystery Even without climate change, even without the decline of bees, pollination is in a downward spiral. And nobody knows why..
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Bird flu jumps to pigs H5N1's jump to pigs brings the virus a step closer to a human pandemic..
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