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
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.
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.
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
City-Scale Congestion Pricing Picking Up Steam
What is congestion charging? Congestion charging or pricing is the practice of setting up cordon tolls around the city on a large-scale to charge entrants for entering during peak hours.
Secretive Company Claims Battery Breakthrough
The Michigan start-up Sakti3 says its solid-state cells more than double the energy density of today’s best Li-Ion batteries
Wind Sets a New Record for Energy Generation in the U.K.
On Sunday night, wind power in the United Kingdom supplied more electricity than domestic coal, biomass, and hydropower (combined) and set a new record for maximum hourly output.
Air Pollution Could Reveal ET's Home
If intelligent aliens are dumb enough to pollute their atmosphere, NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope is powerful enough to spot some of the signs on some exoplanets. Clara Moskowitz reports
Public Urged to Walk and Ride Bikes to Help Cut Smog
The Chinese government has identified public participation as a key element in its efforts to reverse some of the environmental damage done by more than three decades of breakneck economic growth
More Chinese on the Coast, Less Fish in the Sea
China's coastal economic boom is burning out its marine food resources
Government Officials May Have Mishandled DDT Superfund Site
Health experts are questioning the Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan state officials for their decades-long delays in cleanup of a Superfund site that is killing songbirds in yards, possibly leaving people at risk, too