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The carbon math – Western US ecosystems capacity to store carbon in future depends on emissions reductions now
How much carbon is stored in natural systems of the continental western US? Over coming decades, how much of the fossil fuel carbon dioxide we are pumping into the atmosphere will western ecosystems absorb? A new US Geological Service survey provides some sobering answers. The two crucial takeways: First, the capacity of western ecosystems to […]
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Doctors save elephant’s eyesight with historic cataract operation
Duchess the elephant just got the second elephant cataract surgery ever performed.
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Green is the official color of 2013
We've been saying for a while that green is the new black, and now we know exactly what shade of green.
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The Curiosity rover left space trash all over Mars
Next time, NASA should also send some kind of robot maid.
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Enough with the Christmas cookies: Five unpredictable homemade food gifts
These ideas will help you think outside the cookie tin.
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China has plans for a victory garden in space
It's is very, very hard to get fresh, local veggies in space. But China has a solution.
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How to Profit From Climate Change
As the world assembles in Doha to debate climate change policy, solutions, and costs, few attendees at “COP18” are looking at this as a profit-making opportunity. If they did, there might be agreements among nations instead of continued gridlock and finger-pointing. Over two decades ago, scientists warned that growing carbon pollution in the atmosphere would […]
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Ground-Breaking Solar Agreement Between LA and Nevada Tribe
Today Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed an agreement to purchase enough solar energy from Nevada’s Moapa Band of Paiutes to power 105,000 Los Angeles homes. (That’s him at the podium above making the announcement in front of a new array of solar panels at Occidental College). This ground-breaking agreement is great news for everyone […]
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French catfish jump onto dry land to eat pigeons
We're quite certain those fish are going around telling all the other fish not only that pigeons are a delicacy one must taste to appreciate the tender richness of the meat but that you're really meant to call them squab.
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