Can China Turn Cotton Green?
Producing 'natural' cotton clothing is a huge and filthy global business that, Chinese-commissioned research shows, will be extremely difficult to clean up.
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Posted 2009-12-14 05:00:23
Producing 'natural' cotton clothing is a huge and filthy global business that, Chinese-commissioned research shows, will be extremely difficult to clean up.
Posted 2009-12-15 05:00:36
Can the unusual politics, economics and culture of the Alaskan salmon trade serve as a model for sustainable world fisheries?
Posted 2009-12-16 05:00:53
Federal plans for a green economic revolution need more discipline — and a long-term partnership with the venture capitalists who know startup winners from losers.
Posted 2009-12-17 05:00:11
Writing words by hand is a technology that's just too slow for our times, and our minds.
Posted 2009-12-18 05:00:06
Armed with mobile phones and the Internet, trusted networks of family and friends spread the news of electoral fraud and escalating tensions in Iran, transfixing the world with photos and videos of demonstrations against the regime.
Posted 2009-12-21 05:00:39
Could soil engineered specifically to maximize carbon storage dampen some effects of climate change? Very possibly.
Posted 2009-12-22 05:00:55
A leading canine researcher says dogs understand more than 150 words and can count up to four or five. He has compiled a list of the world's smartest dogs. See if your pooch cracks his Top 7.
Posted 2009-12-23 05:00:17
Researchers find that disappointed voters on Election Night 2008 experienced a dip in testosterone levels. How do they know? They measured the voters' spit, of course.
Posted 2009-12-24 05:00:26
Three books suggest America has slipped into a polarized state of undermined self-government. None convincingly suggests how we can slip back out.
Posted 2009-12-28 05:00:31
GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like.
Posted 2009-12-29 05:00:31
Long after the benefit concerts are finished, the victims of hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis suffer severe emotional aftershocks. Is there a better way to respond to disaster?
Posted 2009-12-30 05:00:25
The BBC finds the right way to counter Holocaust deniers: You have the public question them.
Posted 2009-12-31 05:00:50
Only more and better data will settle a dispute about the possibility that environmental pollution can cause inheritable disease.
Posted 2010-01-04 05:00:32
College party-goers share their reasons puffing on the patio ... and other odd studies highlighted in this month's Cocktail Napkin.
Posted 2010-01-05 05:00:59
Self-taught private investigator Jim McCloskey has helped free more than three dozen people who were imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit.
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