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Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Written by: David Richardson, Monday 07 April 2008 - 08:43 AM 
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The United States has built one of the most advanced technological societies the world has ever seen, but we still don’t really know when spring starts.
More Global Warming Worries
Written by: Tom Jacobs, Wednesday 02 April 2008 - 14:24 PM 0 Comments
Reducing global carbon dioxide emissions will be an even more daunting challenge than we have been led to believe, according to a sobering commentary in the April 3 issue of Nature magazine.
Worried About Water
Written by: Matt Palmquist, Monday 24 March 2008 - 17:21 PM 0 Comments
Americans are far more concerned about the quality of water than they are about global warming, according to Gallup's annual environmental survey. But they aren't as worried overall about environmental issues as they were in previous years.
More Bad News on Global Warming
Written by: Tom Jacobs, Tuesday 11 March 2008 - 11:07 AM 0 Comments
As Americans argue about how to tackle the issue of climate change, the astonishingly rapid industrialization of China is threatening to negate whatever progress we might achieve in reducing greenhouse gases. According to a new analysis by economists at two University of California campuses, China's carbon dioxide emissions are growing at…
A Really Inconvenient Truth
Written by: Matt Jenkins, Tuesday 04 March 2008 - 11:00 AM 0 Comments
The climate problem can be solved. But tackling it is going to be a lot harder than you’ve been led to believe.
Workhorse of the Solar Industry
Written by: John Perlin, Thursday 21 February 2008 - 17:17 PM 0 Comments
When people think of solar these days, photovoltaics, or solar cells, pop into their heads. But there is just so much more than merely PV when it comes to solar devices.
States’ Action and Climate Change
Written by: Christina Switzer and John A. Sauter, Wednesday 13 February 2008 - 00:16 AM 0 Comments
Individual states are taking occasionally painful steps to rein in emissions.
Weathercasters Change With the Climate
Written by: William Yelles, Monday 11 February 2008 - 17:38 PM 0 Comments
TV weathercasts will be taking on a scientific bent for the better, a journalism lecturer forecasts.
Small Wind, Big Business
Written by: Frank Nelson, Monday 04 February 2008 - 22:57 PM 0 Comments
The 2007 Farm Bill suggests tax credits as one way to offset the cost — as great as the environmental benefits — of small wind projects.
Going With the Wind
Written by: Frank Nelson, Monday 04 February 2008 - 09:05 AM 0 Comments
The United States remains on the low end of countries using energy powered by wind. Experts point to tax credits as a factor in efforts to establish wind as an energy source.
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- 2 A Prophylactic for Free Speech?
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- 4 Does Education Really Make You…
- 5 Caution: NAFTA at Work
- 6 The Lessons of Gloucester, or It's…
- 7 Should the Government Make Us Happy?
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- 10 See It — and Believe It or Not