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• Highway repair fund, paid for with gas-tax revenue, is nearly depleted. • Want to put stinkweed in your tank? • Climate change could harm giant sequoias. • Engineers unveil new generation of tidal turbines. • Power outages from hurricanes hamper gasoline production. • Iraqi marshes thought to be site of Garden of Eden will […]

Cameroon and Nigeria team up to protect endangered gorilla

Cameroon and Nigeria will partner up to protect the world’s most endangered gorilla under an agreement facilitated by the Wildlife Conservation Society. Only some 300 Cross River gorillas remain, all of which live only in those two Central African countries. Gorilla gorilla diehli is threatened by illegal logging, agricultural conversion of its habitat, and poaching […]

Ford won’t sell 65-mpg diesel car in U.S.

The Ford Fiesta ECOnetic, a small, sporty five-seater that gets an impressive 65 miles per gallon, will the hit the road in November — but only in Europe. “We just don’t think North and South America would buy that many diesel cars,” says Ford America President Mark Fields. The new generation of diesel cars, which […]

Germany opens world’s first carbon-capturing ‘clean coal’ demo plant

Germany will next week open the world’s first “clean coal” plant actually ready to capture and store its carbon-dioxide emissions. The 30-megawatt, $100 million Schwarze Pumpe demonstration plant will burn coal in an atmosphere of oxygen instead of regular air, producing some 10 tons per hour of compressed CO2 that can be captured and buried […]