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Tobacco companies are using menthol flavoring in cigarettes to win over new smokers and keep existing ones, according to a new study appearing in the American Journal of Public Health.

Algae grows fast — up to 40 times as fast as many other feedstocks considered for biofuel production. That's one thing making it increasingly attractive to a growing cadre of innovators, researchers, businessmen and venture capitalists who seek the holy grail of a clean energy source.

Ladybugs combat plant-eating aphids. Falcons patrol trash dumps to ward off pesky seagulls. Now, in another effort to let Mother Nature work her magic, residents of Weld County, Colo. are turning to bats to provide a natural weapon to combat yearly outbreaks of West Nile virus.

Other than mice, if there's one dependable meme to emerge at Miller-McCune.com, it's that solar energy is a technology to track.

One-time corporate raider and always-outsize Texas oilman (is there any other kind?) T. Boone Pickens has made a very public move in support of renewables, launching what he's modestly dubbed the "Pickens Plan" for using wind energy to provide a fifth of the United States' electricity and the natural gas saved from that switch-over to power its vehicles.