Detecting specific gases in the air is possible using a number of different existing technologies, but typically all of these suffer from one or more drawbacks including high energy cost, la... Read more
One Possible Future for the Atmosphere New computer modeling work shows that by 2100, if society wants to limit carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to less than 40 percent higher than it is tod... Read more
There is simply no exaggerating the importance of the oceans to earth’s overall ecological balance. Innovation Needed Their health affects the health of all terrestrial life. A new report by... Read more
More violent and frequent storms, once merely a prediction of climate models, are now a matter of observation. This is the first of a three-part series. In North Dakota the waters kept risin... Read more
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world... Read more
The dun wheat field spreading out at Ravi P. Singh’s feet offered a possible clue to human destiny. Baked by a desert sun and deliberately starved of water, the plants were parched and nearl... Read more
ON THURSDAY March 31st Richard Muller of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory gave evidence to the energy and commerce committee of America’s House of Representatives on the surface temperature reco... Read more
The scientists found that replacing traditional roofing materials with ‘green’ in an urban area the size of Detroit with a population of about one-million, would be equivalent to eliminating... Read more
Image by Rétrofuturs (Hulk4598) / Stéphane Massa-Bidal via Flickr Environmental Engineers Use Algae To Capture Carbon Dioxide Engineers have designed a simple, sustainable and natural carbon... Read more
Image by alles-schlumpf via Flickr As the international community focuses on climate change as the great crisis of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem: the global crisis in land... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Empowering young women through education will help reduce overpopulation in areas that cannot support it and avoid extremism in the children they raise At six billion plu... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Moratorium on schemes to reduce global warming clashes with reports urging more research. A last-ditch remedy for an ailing planet, or a reckless scheme that could be a g... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Biofuels are back. This time they might even work MAKE something people want to buy at a price they can afford. Hardly a revolutionary business strategy, but one that the... Read more
Image by silveryyn via Flickr Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a hot area of research in the effort to fight global warming through the process of removing carbon from the atmospher... Read more
