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The Road to Fukushima: The Nuclear Industry's Wrong Turn11 Apr, 2011 10:32 am Nuclear researchers knew long ago that reactor designs now in wide use had already been bested in safety by another design. Why did the industry turn its...Oil spill: BP shrinks by $16 Billion28 Jul, 2010 12:56 pm Only time will tell whether BP's accountants have included a sufficient 'haircut' in the second-quarter results to allow the new boss to begin rebuilding...Revulsion vs. Hard Choices25 Jun, 2010 01:24 pm Before America commits to anything beyond the shortest suspension of deepwater drilling, necessary to ensure that the practice can proceed safely,...BP and the Obama Administration – I Blame You for Ruining My Gulf24 Jun, 2010 11:44 am The US government had zero capability of its own in place to deal with a spill of this magnitude, meaning all of the technical heavy lifting was squarely...Another Wake-Up Call for the World’s Biggest Oil Junkie22 Jun, 2010 12:53 pm OK, America, itÂ’s time to get real about energy. The explosion and destruction of the Horizon deepwater rig and the subsequent oil spill disaster are...Blame Big Bad B.P. For Now, but Where Is the Next Oil to Come From?22 Jun, 2010 09:32 am The Deepwater Horizon oil-spill is an unquestionable tragedy, but if there is any defining message to be drawn from it, it is that the age of cheap,...The Wages of Complexity18 May, 2010 11:45 am While accusations continue to fly back and forth about who is to blame for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and investigations commence into...Nanosilver2 Dec, 2009 08:15 am I was astonished when recently, during a discussion about hazards of mineral nanoparticles, a learned colleague of mine took a bottle of colloid silver...Averting 22 Water-Electricity Crises in the United States27 Jul, 2009 09:29 pm Conventional power plants could create severe water shortages in 22 metropolitan areas by 2025.The Water Behind Ethanol7 May, 2009 01:42 pm While last year's "food vs. fuel" controversy has largely died down, thanks to lower corn prices, a new study from the University of Minnesota suggests...Biofuels and water3 Apr, 2009 09:29 pm The oil company Shell has announced that it will end its investments in wind energy. It intends to focus on biofuels. This remarkably comes at a time...Global Water Crisis19 May, 2008 11:31 am On Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, ecoSanity.org attended a talk by Council of Canadians National Chairperson, Maude Barlow at Monarch Park Collegiate in Toronto...Power From Formic Acid20 May, 2008 11:05 am One of the central challenges of our time is the supply of enough environmentally friendly and resource-efficient energy to our society.Nepal's Electricity Woes10 Apr, 2008 04:40 pm Nepal does have one resource in abundance: water. And its neighbours are looking to exploit that resource to power their economies with hydroelectricty...The Pintadas Project27 Feb, 2008 11:13 am The film is about an SouthSouthNorth Adaptation project implemented in the semi-arid region of Brazil. The focus of the project is to improve agriculture...The sQuba18 Feb, 2008 01:04 pm A Swiss inventor, Frank Rinderknecht, has modeled a car that goes under water after one in a James Bond movie.Nanovalve Material Captures and Stores Gases20 Feb, 2008 12:37 pm In a different approach to gas storage, a Ph.D. student, Brett Chandler and two professors, George Shimizu and David Cramb, at University of Calgary along...Food for Thought: Invincible Rice8 Feb, 2008 06:09 pm CNN's Hugh Riminton looks at one institute's efforts to help farmers prepare for climate change.Climate Influences on Deep Sea Populations7 Feb, 2008 06:39 pm A recent research study coordinated by Joan B. Company and Pere Puig from the Marine Sciences Institute in Barcelona (CSIC) has demonstrated that the formation...On Algal Biodiesel29 Jan, 2008 05:11 pm Eons ago, microalgae (tiny plants) growing in primeval oceans died and formed a layer on the sea bed. Over geological time, i.e., millions of years,...The Exploration of Subglacial Lake Ellsworth in West Antarctica23 Jan, 2008 09:43 am Ever since the discovery, ten years ago, of Lake Vostok as a large deep freshwater body beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists have been fascinated...Climate Change Linked to Human Mortality14 Jan, 2008 12:10 pm Scitizen interviews Dr. Mark Jacobson, whose recent study demonstrates a cause-effect relationship between increased levels of carbon dioxide and increase...Greater Groundwater Loss Due to Rising Seal Levels28 Nov, 2007 11:29 am People who live near the coast could lose their fresh water supplies due to sea-level rise caused by global climate change. Our study indicates that they...Ad Astra! News and Discoveries from the the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn29 Oct, 2007 01:01 pm The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched on 15 October 1997; 10 years later, we speak to Professor Andrew Coates, head of Planetary Science Group in the...Biofuel Production Threatens Water Supplies in China and India11 Oct, 2007 05:03 pm A study released this week by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) reports that the biofuel production in China and India exacerbates the...Increase in Humidity: A Response to Human-Induced Climate Change11 Oct, 2007 04:40 pm Scientists have observed significant increase in the specific humidity (a measure of how much water vapour there is in a given volume of air) over the...Surface and Deep Water Processes were Closely Related during Abrupt Change in the North Atlantic over the Past 420000 Years24 Aug, 2007 11:50 am A recent study (Martrat et al., 2007) based on high-resolution analyses of proxies for sea surface temperature, water mass distribution and relative biomarker...?Water is There!?11 Jul, 2007 07:01 pm Giovanna Tinetti, lead author of a study published today in Nature, reports presence of water in the atmosphere of an extra-solar planet. |
Journal's title:
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