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Europe’s Water Resources Under Pressure
Continued inefficient use of water could threaten Europe’s economy, productivity and ecosystems, a report has warned. The European Environment...
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GE Rejects Republicans’ Climate Change Doubts
General Electric has brushed aside the doubts leading Republican presidential contenders have raised about climate science. The U.S. industrial...
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Google Buys Wind, Bets on Sun
Google is stepping up wind-power purchases to reduce emissions, even as it devotes most of its renewable energy investments...
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Shame on the Rich
For fans of the British upstairs-downstairs TV series Downton Abbey, skullduggery may seem evenly distributed among the social ranks....
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President’s 2013 Budget Hits Planetary Science Hard
The president’s 2013 budget asks for modest increases for some federal science agencies but trims funding to NASA. The...
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Ultrafast Trades Trigger Market Crashes and Spikes
The US financial markets have suffered over 18,000 extreme price changes caused by ultrafast trading, according to a new...
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NASA Issues Call for New Space Taxis
NASA is looking for at least two U.S. firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to...
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David Christian Is Upbeat at Davos
There are many tribes at Davos: business leaders (who pay for the rest), journalists, politicians, representatives of NGOs, bankers...
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For Moon Colony, Technology Is the Easy Part
Could the United States establish a moon colony and develop a new propulsion system for going to Mars? All...
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Can Economy Bear What Oil Prices Have in Store?
Stop wrangling over global warming and instead reduce fossil-fuel use for the sake of the global economy. That’s the...