Environment
People Power Takes Aim at Climate Change
Participlants in the People's Climate March in New York City September 21st hope to persuade world leaders at the U.N. Climate Summit that follows. David Biello reports
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Science Shows Up in Force at People's Climate March
Scientists who do not typically take a policy position make an exception for climate change
Environment
An Efficient Process for Recycling Rare Earth Elements
A student team from the University of Houston swept this year's U.S. Department of Energy Clean Energy Business Plan Competition. With their innovative (and proprietary) approach to recycling a pair of critical rare earth materials, the REEcycle team introduced the energy industry to an innovative way to turn waste into a domestic stream of rare [...]..
Environment
Ditching Cars for Buses, Bikes Best Way to Cut City Pollution
Encouraging people to abandon their cars and use public transport or walk or cycle offers the "least pain, most gain" way to cut air pollution from traffic by 2050, a new international study said...
Environment
Study of Eastern U.S. Shows Wind Energy Could Stabilize the Grid
Last month, General Electric (GE) consulting presented the results of a U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) sponsored study testing if wind turbines can be controlled to manage the stability of the electric grid...
Self-Driving Cars Could Cut Greenhouse Gas Pollution
A new report shows how autonomous and connected car technologies could begin to reduce the amount of pollution put out by vehicles
Environment
#IAmANaturalist Campaign Flourishes Online
#IAmANaturalist because to try and understand a completely different way of living, of being, is to transcend oneself.
Environment
U.S. Petroleum Exports Continue to Rise
Petroleum product exports are on track for another banner year, with total exports climbing to a 3.7 million barrels per day (bbpd) average for 2014 from just under 3.5 million bbpd in 2013. However, on the East Coast, imports for some fuels increased by almost 50% in the first half of 2014...
San Francisco Looks to Car-Share to Reduce City Vehicle Fleet
San Francisco might join a handful of U.S. cities reducing their fleets of cars in favor of sharing services, including New York, Chicago and Indianapolis...
Technology
GM Focuses on Safety in Driverless Vehicle Announcement
Driverless cars came to the forefront of transportation discussions this weekend when General Motors CEO Mary Barra announced her company's plan to add "hands-free and feet-free" driving capabilities to some 2017 models...
"Keeling Curve" CO2-Monitoring Project Draws a Decent Donation
The five-year, $500,000 grant will allow for analysis of a backlog of air samples to discern the contribution of CO2 from man-made sources
Is Germany's Green Zeal Turning Brown?
For all Angela Merkel's headline-grabbing "green revolution", Germany's image as a world leader on environmental policies is in danger of falling under the shadow of the smoke stack and a cloud of exhaust fumes...
Environment
U.N. Chief Tries to Kick-Start Sagging Enthusiasm for Climate Deal
By Ben Garside and Valerie Volcovici LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon this month hopes to reinvigorate the years-long effort to forge a global climate deal, even as concerns grow over whether the final pact will be rigorous enough to address threats to the environment...
Carbon Tax Repeal Boosts Australian Pollution
(Reuters) - Carbon emissions and electricity demand in Australia have risen in the two months since the government repealed a tax on emissions, bucking a nearly six-year long trend of decline, an energy consultancy said on Thursday...
Costco Fined and Forced to Fix Refrigerant Leaks
(Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp will pay a $335,000 fine and spend about $2 million over three years to fix refrigerant leaks and make other improvements at 274 stores to settle allegations that the warehouse club operator violated the federal Clean Air Act...
Promises to Cut Climate Change Pollution Expected at U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon hopes to prevent world leaders sleepwalking into climate catastrophe by asking them to make new emissions pledges at a climate summit in New York this month...
Environment
Oil and Gas Drilling Raise Electricity Prices in West Texas
In July 2012, Frontier Texas, an Old West museum located in Abilene, received an electric bill nearly $4,000 higher than expected. Oddly enough, the museum hadn't used an unusual amount of power that month...
Environment
Most Americans Mistakenly Think U.S. Gets Most of Its Oil from the Middle East
..the United States. Have you heard? Computer scientist and data whiz Randy Olson dove into the UT Energy Poll data and noticed that the American public is pretty confused about where we get out energy...
The Sciences
Satirists As a Source of Science News
How many times have you read a science-themed article from The Onion or watched a science-themed segment on The Daily Show (TDS) or The Colbert Report (CR) and remarked at how “spot on” they are?...
Coal Plants Will Emit 300 BIllion Tons of Future CO2
So many new plants have been built worldwide that emissions across their lifetimes will be enormous
