U.S. beekeepers lost fewer honey bees last year than in previous years, but the size of the decline is still a threat to the industry.
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Honey bee decline is slowing down
Published May 29th, 2009 in Animals, Earth, Plants and Science. 6 CommentsCrops for electricity would yield more transport miles than ethanol
Published May 8th, 2009 in Energy, Global Warming, Human World, Innovation, Plants, Science and Sustainability. 7 Comments
A new study shows that burning crops such as corn and switchgrass to create electricity to power electric vehicles would actually yield more transportation miles than turning those crops into ethanol.
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Dust storms escalate in Western U.S., affect ecosystems
Published April 24th, 2009 in Climate & Weather, Earth, Global Warming, Human World, Plants, Science and Sustainability. 5 Comments
This year 11 serious dust storms have hit the Colorado Rockies — and it’s only April. The storms affect snow melt, air quality and local vegetation.
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Clearing up climate change misconceptions
Published March 27th, 2009 in Climate & Weather, Earth, Glaciers, Global Warming, Media and Science. 24 Comments
It’s great to see a journalist write a succinct, accurate column debunking climate change myths and explaining the climate change facts. Chris Mooney recently did just that.
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See the clean-energy future on television
Published March 13th, 2009 in Climate & Weather, Earth, Energy, Global Warming, Human World, Innovation, Media, Science and Sustainability. 9 Comments
About a year ago I reviewed ‘Earth: The Sequel,’ a book describing the cutting-edge research going on in the energy-technology field. If you haven’t had time to read it, now you can watch it on the Discovery Channel.
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Energy Internet needed in a world that is hot, flat and crowded
Published February 1st, 2009 in Climate & Weather, Earth, Energy, Global Warming, Human World, Innovation, Media, Science and Sustainability. 10 Comments
Just as the Internet revolutionized communication and commerce, an Energy Internet could transform how we use electricity and enable the integration of renewable energy sources on a large scale.
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Obama’s stimulus plan should be smart and green
Published January 14th, 2009 in Earth, Energy, Global Warming, Human World, Innovation and Sustainability. 6 Comments
President-elect Obama has said he wants to help jumpstart the economy by giving money to states for infrastructure projects, in order to create jobs while making needed repairs and improvements across the nation. But will these be truly smart investments all the way around?
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Indonesia’s coral reefs rebounding quickly
Published December 30th, 2008 in Animals, Earth, Global Warming, Oceans and Science. 2 Comments
It’s a hopeful sign as we enter 2009: Coral reefs damaged by the 2004 tsunami are recovering suprisingly quickly.
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What if every parking space had a recharger for electric cars?
Published December 8th, 2008 in Earth, Energy, Global Warming, Human World, Innovation, Science and Sustainability. 35 Comments
That’s Shai Agassi’s plan. He’s head of Better Place, a Silicon Valley company that wants to revamp transportation by getting investors and governments to build infrastructure to support electric cars — and by casting the new electric-car network as a sustainable service to which drivers subscribe.
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Hurricane season ends with new record, maybe new scale
Published November 30th, 2008 in Climate & Weather, Earth, Global Warming, Hurricanes, Oceans and Science. 0 Comments
Today marks the end of the Atlantic hurricane season, one that saw an above-average number of hurricanes. One of those caused so much damage that it could lead to the creation of a new scale for hurricane severity.
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