Articles By: David Biello

News 11/18/09
Sinking Global Warming: Is There a Reliable Way to Track Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels?
CO2 emissions rise as natural sinks slow, but how can scientists precisely track this greenhouse gas, especially in advance of a potential global treaty to reduce its emissions?
Features 11/6/09
First Look at Carbon Capture and Storage in a West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant [Slide Show]
The world's first power facility to capture and store a portion of its carbon dioxide has begun operating in Appalachia
Scientific American Magazine 10/29/09
Burying Climate Change: Carbon Gets Stuffed Underground
Efforts begin to sequester carbon dioxide
News 10/26/09
Climate Change Begins at Home: Small Steps to Cut Greenhouse Emissions Can Lead to Big Results
A new study shows how household improvements, such as better insulation, could cut U.S. carbon emissions by more than 7 percent
News 10/26/09
Polar Perspective: NASA DC-8 Monitors Antarctica's Meltdown from the Skies
Flights aim to record and understand rapid melting in Antarctica, Greenland
Features 10/22/09
Editing Scientists: Science and Policy at the White House
How much do policymakers shape the science that comes out of government agencies?
News 10/19/09
Beautiful, Safe, Affordable--And It Gets 100 Mpg: X PRIZE Picks Next Round of Automotive Contestants
Contest aims to award $10-million prize to the best new automotive design, and gives a glimpse of what the energy-efficient car of the future may look like--and what will power it
Features 10/13/09
Damming the Yangtze: Are a Few Big Hydropower Projects Better Than a Lot of Small Ones?
China is rushing to build dams along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, in part to protect the Three Gorges Dam, but can such hydropower development be done better?
News 10/8/09
Just How Sensitive Is Earth's Climate to Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide?
Two new studies look far back in geologic time to determine how sensitive the global climate is to atmospheric CO2 levels
News 10/7/09
Unraveling the Ribosome: Chemistry Nobel Awarded to Modelers of Cells' Protein-Maker [Update]
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath first determined how to image the ribosome, then revealed how it does its protein-making work
News 10/6/09
Driving on Glass? Inventor Hopes to Lay Down Solar Roads
U.S. roads paved with glass panels encasing photovoltaics and LEDs would double as a national power grid
Features 10/2/09
Another Inconvenient Truth: The World's Growing Population Poses a Malthusian Dilemma
Solving climate change, the Sixth Great Extinction and population growth... at the same time
News 9/30/09
Farmed Out: How Will Climate Change Impact World Food Supplies?
A new study attempts to estimate the effects of climate change on global agriculture--and outline ways to mitigate its most dire consequences
News 9/23/09
Grappling with the Anthropocene: Scientists Identify Safe Limits for Human Impacts on Planet
Scientists propose a list of planetary boundaries for human impacts ranging from biodiversity loss to the global nitrogen cycle
News 9/22/09
Burying Climate Change: Efforts Begin to Sequester Carbon Dioxide from Power Plants
West Virginia hosts the world's first power plant to inject some of its CO2 emissions underground for permanent storage

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