Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
February 5th, 2012 | 
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As Gasland director Josh Fox’s arrest stole the attention, politicians heard important testimony about fracking.
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We love our trees. We love our power. That’s our problem.</p>
NASA’s newest Earth-watching satellite is beaming back spectacular views of our home planet. Here’s how it works.
A Stage 1 burn ban for Thurston County began at 5 p.m. Friday and will continue through the weekend at least, according to the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency.
The decades-long stalemate on where to store U.S. nuclear waste could be ending.
Astronomers at the Paranal observatory combine four telescope to create the world’s largest virtual device with a 130m-mirror.
The Hubble space telescope captures an image of a “barred spiral” galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way.
A step-by-step guide to how volcanoes in the tropics could engulf northern European towns in ice.
The number of deaths worldwide from malaria has been underestimated, according to data published in the medical journal the Lancet.
The UN’s climate agency, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) this week released a new online tool to assist companies and communities in planning for climate adaptation.
Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists.
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning during the 126th annual Groundhog Day festivities. What else do you need to know about Groundhog Day?
A potentially habitable alien planet that orbits a triple-star system is perfectly positioned for liquid water — and possibly life.
Astronomers have found a fourth planet with conditions similar to Earth, which they say could support life.
Land plants may have brought about their own demise by triggering a series of ice ages.
Meadows of seagrass, a keystone species in marine ecosystems, found in the Mediterranean Sea are likely to be tens of thousands of years old, a study shows.
The German-UK consortium building the operational spacecraft for Europe’s Galileo sat-nav system wins a contract to provide an additional eight units.
Airlines tank up passenger jets with used restaurant cooking oil in an effort to make travel a bit greener.
Research shows that primitive moss-like plants could have helped cool the Earth 470 million years ago, bringing on mini ice ages.
“Big Miracle” recalls the events during the Cold War, when this woman had the courage to call Russia.
A huge crustacean called a supergiant – more than 30cm long – has been discovered 7km down in the waters north of New Zealand.
Climate scientists are protesting the Wall Street Journal’s publication of a letter from climate skeptics with mostly non-climate backgrounds.
The eruption of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet could be predicted decades before the event, research suggests.
An MP tables a motion calling for computer pioneer Alan Turing to be posthumously pardoned over a conviction for gross indecency.
