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World Bank Warns of ‘4 Degree’ Threshold
The World Bank is urging stepped-up efforts to meet world carbon reduction goals after looking at what it says...
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Solar Storm as Desert Plan to Power Europe Falters
An ambitious plan to provide 15% of Europe’s power needs from solar plants in North Africa has run into...
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Fuel From Waste, Poised at a Milestone
For years, scientists and engineers have been juggling various combinations of acids, steam, bacteria, catalysts and the digestive juices...
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Obama’s Research Challenge
Obama wants to invest in science and technology, but a divided Congress and looming budget cuts could make it...
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With Economy Trumping Emissions, Obama Plans Climate Education Push
From Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth blog at the New York Times: President Obama’s first long discussion of human-driven global...
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BP to Plead Guilty to Felonies in Deepwater Horizon Spill
BP PLC has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges and pay $4.5 billion in penalties, including $1.26 billion...
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Bill McKibben Proposes Fossil Energy Divestment Drive
The highly influential environment activist Bill McKibben is proposing a fossil energy divestment campaign, on the model of the...
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Does Big Money Equal Better Science?
The search for the Higgs boson using the Large Hadron Collider at Cern has taken years of research and...
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A New Chapter of Solar Energy Conversion and Storage?
Using the power of the sun and ultrathin films of iron oxide (commonly known as rust), Technion-Israel Institute of...
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Shaping the Future for Food Security
Climate change, population growth and competing demands for land and resources are putting great pressure on the world’s food...