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U.N. Reports World Lacks Enough Food, Fuel as Population Soars
As the world’s population looks set to grow to nearly 9 billion by 2040 from 7 billion now, and...
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Clean Might Not Be Green Forever
It is clear that continuing to rely on fossil fuels will have catastrophic results, because of the dramatic warming...
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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...
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Magnetic Soap Could Sop Up Oil Spills
Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a soap, composed of iron rich salts dissolved in water, that...
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Fracking Would Emit Large Quantities of Greenhouse Gases
Add methane emissions to the growing list of environmental risks posed by fracking. Opposition to the hydraulic fracturing of...
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Seaweed May Be Our Energy Future
Scientists in a cluttered Berkeley laboratory are working a bit of biochemical wizardry to transform ordinary seaweed into biofuels...
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Saul Griffith’s TED Talk on Wind Power
In this brief TED talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on:...
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Add Quakes to Rumblings Over Gas Rush
Need to study induced seismicity in response to the string of suspicious quakes in shale-gas drilling areas.
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A Five-Step Program for Ending Our Oil Addiction
In Reinventing Fire, Rocky Mountain Institute provides a blueprint for transforming transportation and freight services with uncompromised convenience, safety...
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Can Algae Feed the World and Fuel the Planet?
Microbes will be the (human) food- and fuel-makers of the future, if J. Craig Venter has his way. The...