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Horses as Farm Equipment

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ANNE RAVER - May. 16 (Special Report) - Horses as Farm Equipment

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Four colossal Sun flares in 48 hours

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Paul Rincon - May. 15 (News Report) - The Sun has unleashed the most powerful eruption - a solar flare - of 2013 so far.

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Why Are These Turtles Turning Female?

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Nick Visser - May. 07 (News Analysis) - If you're a male painted turtle, global warming might sound great at first: A new study suggests it will mean more females to mate with and fewer male rivals to fend off. But, as usual with climate change, every silver lining has a cloud. In this case, too many females could render the species incapable of reproducing by century's end.

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Oil and gas sector exports grow

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 05 (News Report) - Exports related to the oil and gas industry grow for the 14th year in a row and are now worth £17.2bn, a survey suggests.

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Fasten seatbelts, air passengers. Climate change ahead.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 09 (Special Report) - Transatlantic flights will be bumpier by 2050 because of rising CO2 emissions, a new study finds. Turbulent episodes could double and the average strength of turbulence would also rise 10 to 40 ...

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Novartis denied cancer drug patent in landmark Indian case

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Sarah Boseley - Apr. 01 (News) - The Indian supreme court has refused to allow one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies to patent a new version of a cancer drug, a decision campaigners hailed as a major step forward in enabling poor people to access medicines in the developing world. Novartis lost a six-year legal battle after the court ruled that small changes and improvements to the drug Glivec did not amount to innovation deserving of a patent. T

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The Axis of Ennui

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By DAVID BROOKS - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - Effective energy innovation is not happening where you think it is, Dear Reader.

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Amplified greenhouse effect turning Earth`s northern latitudes greener

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

zeenews.india.com - Mar. 10 (News) - London: A NASA-funded study has found that temperature and vegetation growth at Earth's northern latitudes now increasingly resembles those lusher latitudes to the south. The study conducted by an international team of university and NASA scientists is b

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Sky Show: Jupiter and Moon in Super Close Pairing

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

National Geographic - By Andrew Fazekas - Jan. 19 (News) - National GeographicSky Show: Jupiter and Moon in Super Close PairingNational GeographicTwo of the brightest objects in the night sky head towards a close encounter on Monday night. The sky show begins after local nightfall on the 21st when the waxing gibbous moon snuggles up to brilliant white Jupiter in the southeast. This closeness is of ...Planetary Inauguration ConjunctionIndian Country Today Media Network.comSee Jupiter and Moon Shine Dazzlingly Close Together MondaySpace.comJupiter and the moon convene MondayWashington Post (blog)BBC News -EarthSky (blog)all 26 news articles »

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U.S. military gets serious about microgrids … which is more exciting than it sounds

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Grist - By David Roberts - Jan. 18 (Special Report) - The Department of Defense has bases in the U.S. and forward operating bases in theaters of war like Afghanistan. In both cases, providing reliable electricity, a strategic and tactical necessity for an increasingly wired military, is a challenge. One way

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North Korean rocket launch condemned internationally

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Simon Tisdall, Justin McCurry, Tania Branigan - Dec. 13 (News Report) - Fears about renewed North Korean military aggression sparked by Pyongyang's successful launch of a long-range rocket on Wednesday are likely to boost rightwing and nationalist candidates in crucial elections due in Japan and South Korea within the next week, regional analysts warned.

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Energy boom will push US past Saudi Arabia, benefit economy

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Nov. 13 (News Analysis) - The US energy boom will boost jobs and capital spending, cut imports and carbon emissions, according to a new report. But the energy boom is not a panacea for the climate –or US foreign ...

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Alaska trumpeter swans filling historic range

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Dan Jolin - Oct. 30 (News Report) - Deborah Groves of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says North America's largest waterfowl species continues a comeback from near extinction in Lower 48 states and from much of its Alaska habitat.

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Romney’s bluster

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Oct. 20 - Published Oct 20, 2012 01:01AM MDT The second debate between Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama was troubling for several reasons, but what bothered me most was Romney’s discussion of oil drilling and energy development in North America. As much as he hemmed-and-hawed about how he will open up oil drilling on an unprecedented scale, Romney did not once mention our responsibility to the environment. But Obama did. He understands that sustainable, long-term energy policy and our commitment to the environment are crucial ... ...

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From Canada Down To Argentina, The Oil Flows

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By Juan Forero - May. 26 (News Report) - U.S. oil production has been on the rise, and that's been widely noted. But the same is true throughout the Americas, which are now home to four of the world's top nine producers. As the wind whips across the scrub grass in southern Argentina, a crane unloads huge bags of artificial sand for oil workers preparing for the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of a well. Water mixed with chemicals and tiny ceramic beads are then blasted underground at high pressure. This mixture helps create fissures, allowing oil and natural gas to flow. Energy analysts believe there are billions of barrels of oil and gas buried in a desert-like patch in Patagonia.

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The Hunger Games: The world after a climate apocalypse, teen fiction style

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:29:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 19 - The revolution will be televised. So will the post-apocalyptic fight to feed ourselves on a ruined planet. Those are two key themes of the wildly popular young adult (YA) trilogy that begins with The Hunger Games, whose movie version comes out this week.

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Yellowstone says it may need to import grizzlies to improve genetics

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

billingsgazette.com - By Brett French - Jan. 05 (News Report) - Yellowstone National Park has asked its fundraising partners to come up with $1 million a year for six years to expand its lake trout eradication effort at Yellowstone Lake, and by 2022 the park may need to import grizzly bears from other regions to increase the animals’ genetic diversity Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/yellowstone-says-it-may-need-to-import-grizzlies-to-improve/article_cab0939e-363e-56db-8a66-2dfeaa60ff77.html#ixzz1ic4jJBtC

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How Climate Change Has Driven Evolution

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:40:00 -0800

Time - Dec. 27 - This painting by artist Carl Buell depcits a scene from the late Eocene of North America. A new study shows how climate change drove species diversity in the past. We are the products of our environment — and that goes for egrets and elephants as much as

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Rapid Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Possibly Explained

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

rcinet.ca - Jun. 28 (News Report) - Arctic researchers have discovered a clue as to why sea ice in the North is melting so much faster than anyone thought it would. Scientists have long puzzled over why Arctic sea ice is retreating at up to three times the rate that climate models say it should.

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Crops outlook gloomy

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 20 (News) - Interest in long-range weather forecasts has always been high. But it is likely to intensify as weather conditions continue to threaten crops in many parts of the world including China, North America and Europe. Whilst crops in the southeast of China [pr

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Tree rings record changing snowpack, research finds

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Billings Gazette - By Brett French - Jun. 18 (News Report) - Greg Pederson sees the recent publication of his research on snowpack declines in the West as a prime opportunity to reiterate the difference between climate and weather in this record-setting wet spring. Pederson, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Bozeman, was the lead author of a paper published last week in Science magazine detailing the decline in snowpack observed by examining tree rings from the watersheds of the Columbia, Missouri and Colorado river basins dating back more than 800 years. His findings: Not only has snowpack declined compared to past climate fluctuations, but there's also been a "decoupling" of precipitation in the Colorado River basin and that of the Northern Rockies.

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Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - May. 23 (Investigative Report) - Thinking of getting away? You probably have much less vacation than workers in other parts of the world. Employers in the United States are not obligated to offer any paid vacationVacation is mandated by law in many other parts of the worldPoll: Only 57%

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Southwest Airlines grounds jets over mid-air hole scare

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 02 (News) -

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What Makes Somalis So Different?

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Dec. 22 () - You’d expect their children would be — on the whole — relieved to live in a stable Western country where even the president is black. But the Somalis who settled in Minneapolis and other selected corners of the U.S. were war refugees, with little money and not many job skills. A recent U.S. census study said Somali immigrants, statistically, were among the “youngest and poorest” newcomers to the U.S., with 82 percent of the community in Minneapolis living below the poverty line.

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To all our veterans past and present, "Thank You" (tribute video)

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

allvoices.com - Nov. 11 (Opinion) -

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