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Is Nitrogen the New Carbon?
A discussion with ecologist Alan Townsend on mankind's love-hate relationship with nitrogen, and how this marriage…
Ecologist Dismisses ‘Ethanol Solution’
Townsend notes that producing corn for ethanol use requires intensively fertilized fields, which produce "the forgotten…
Climate Change Leaves Wildflowers in the Cold
In the wildflower meadows of the West, we may be hearing the whisperings of a post-climate-change world.
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Seeing the Rainforest for the Trees
Written by: Matt Palmquist, Tuesday 29 January 2008 - 18:58 PM 
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While geographer Alan Grainger has upset conventional wisdom by suggesting the world’s tropical forests are not shrinking, he sees his research as a clarion call.
Big Hydro Is Dead! Long Live Big Hydro!
Written by: Lea-Rachel Kosnick, Wednesday 23 January 2008 - 16:30 PM 0 Comments
Build new, low-impact hydropower facilities but keep the old: Large dams already in existence can be improved.
Reducing Big Problem With Little Hydro Plants
Written by: Lea-Rachel Kosnick, Wednesday 23 January 2008 - 09:25 AM 0 Comments
Hydropower will never be the complete answer to emissions-free energy production in the U.S., but a strong case can be made for it becoming a useful part of the answer. Part two in a three-part series.
Campus Research Back to Basics
Written by: Matthew Rafferty, Tuesday 22 January 2008 - 22:58 PM 0 Comments
The author of a new paper on the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 finds that the legislation has not caused the decline in basic research that many had feared.
Hydro Doesn’t Have to Be Big
Written by: Lea-Rachel Kosnick, Tuesday 22 January 2008 - 12:20 PM 0 Comments
In the first of a three-part series looking at the untapped potential for hydropower to supply the U.S. with carbon-free electricity, Lea-Rachel Kosnik finds ample opportunities for expanding hydro.
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- 4 Solar Building a Wise, and Ancient,…
- 5 A Really Inconvenient Truth
- 6 Photovoltaics: A Bright Idea
- 7 Might Commodities Spark Apocalypse?
- 8 More Hype Equals Less Action on…
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- 10 Solar Cells From Space to Earth