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David Attenborough on Global Warming
Friday, July 17th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
The legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough was long unsure about the causes of the observed climate...

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G8 Leaders Fail to Agree on Carbon Cuts

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 - 16:25:47 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Leaders of the world's major industrialized nations have formally agreed for the first time that average global temperatures should not increase by...

Countries Betting Tech Can Clean Up Coal

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 - 12:24:38 - Sarah Gingichashvili

In the high-stakes game of climate change, the United States and other countries are betting on the idea that technology can make dirty coal cleaner...

How Much CO2 Does This Article Produce?

Sunday, July 12th, 2009 - 18:13:00 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Twenty milligrams; that's the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article...

Greening the Internet

Saturday, July 11th, 2009 - 14:45:32 - Anuradha Menon

Twenty milligrams; that's the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article...

Plastics and Marine Debris
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
The Algalita Marine Research Foundation chronicles the problem of marine debris in our ecosystem in this video entitled...

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Mississippi River Delta to 'Drown' by 2100?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 - 16:39:41 - Anuradha Menon

The Mississippi River Delta is drowning, according to new research that predicts the surrounding coastline will be inevitably reshaped in coming...

Engineering For Extreme Environments

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 - 16:11:08 - Anuradha Menon

Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT...

Carbon Nanotubes Dangerous to the Environment
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 - Anni Shaer Levitt
Scientists from the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD) have discovered worrying properties of carbon...