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And by 2020, the solar industry will have completely "paid back" the energy it took to produce the world's panels.
Researchers at Virginia Tech announced Thursday that their latest breakthrough in hydrogen extraction technology could lead to widespread adoption of the substance as a fuel due to its ease of availability in virtually all plant matter.
The commanding officer and three crew of a US minesweeper which ran aground on a protected coral reef in the Philippines have been relieved of their duties, the US Navy said Thursday.
Tuesday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow welcomed Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, who discussed Friday’s rupture of a tar sands pipeline in the city of Mayflower, Arkansas.
Almost unknown to the public, a constellation of satellite guardians is flying overhead, and all it takes is a phone call for them to intervene when a country is hit by a storm, earthquake, tsunami or flood.
Elites continue urging the wealthy West not to stem the migrant tide but to absorb our global brothers and sisters until their horrid ordeal has been endured and shared by all—ten billion humans packed onto an ecologically devastated planet.
Shell plans to temporarily shut a key oil pipeline in southern Nigeria later this month to repair damage caused by oil thieves, leading to a cut of around 150,000 barrels per day, the company said Tuesday.
A survey published on Tuesday found that a majority of Republicans want to reduce the country’s fossil fuel use, a position that is at odds with the Republican Party
Climate change is expanding Antarctica's sea ice, according to a scientific study in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Whatever's killing honeybees is getting worse, but we still don't know what it is.
New walls in the Rockaways will protect a vulnerable stretch of the A train tracks.
The drones flew above a volcano's crater and into its toxic plume.
A lot of oil spilled in the town of Mayflower, Ark. this weekend.
Sustainable development has been the catchphrase of the environmental movement for over 20 years and rarely are underlying motives questioned.
Whatever's killing honeybees is getting worse, but we still don't know what it is.
[John Stossel:] "The Germans are spending about $110 billion on subsidies for these solar panels," said Lomborg. "The net effect of all those investments will be to postpone global warming by 37 hours by the end of the century."
DEBATE about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the skeptical fringe to the mainstream. In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating a
Nobel Laureate Dr. Henry W. Kendall said, “If we don’t halt population growth with justice and compassion, it will be done for us by nature, brutally and without pity – and will leave a ravaged world.”
The Environmental Protection Agency will move ahead with rules requiring cleaner gasoline and cars nationwide, despite fierce protests from the oil industry and some conservative Democrats,
The world of global warming alarmists is increasingly resembling a madhouse, with conservationists falling over each other trying to salvage the last shreds of credibility. Very funny.
US News tells us that libertarians want to "keep the lights on" for the current Earth Hour. Earth Hour is a worldwide event organized by the World Wildlife Fund "encouraging households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights.
The push to extend fracking to arid regions is drawing attention to water-free techniques.
The lawyers will be as busy as bees.
The Treasury Department’s Office of Environment and Energy has finally begun to turn over documents about its preparations for a carbon tax in response to transparency warrior Chris Horner’s Freedom of Information Act request
"We are trying to promote saving the Earth, not using up our natural resources," criticized one educator
Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but keep an eye on this. Reports from California: “Something is going badly wrong offshore”
The American government has developed a solution for all the excess radioactive metal from the medical industry and military: Make it into belt buckles.
Large British wind farms will actually release as much carbon dioxide as fossil-fuel power plants, according to a study conducted by researchers from Aberdeen University and published in the journal Nature.
Here is the update for Bayou Corne, there are long duration quakes happening. Assumption Parish said there was a burst overnight. Everything is in the video, including the seismic graphs.
First it was 900, then 1200, then 3000, and now the latest tally of dead pigs floating in the Shanghai water supply has hit nearly 6000. AP has the latest number: "