Oil-rich Abu Dhabi is planning a massive solar project. By Samantha Page Transitioning to clean energy is the single most important thing we can do to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. Luckily for us, clean energy keeps getting… Read More ›
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One Star Over, a Planet That Might Be Another Earth
Another Earth could be circling the star right next door to us. Astronomers announced on Wednesday that they had detected a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest neighbor to our solar system. Intriguingly, the planet is in the star’s “Goldilocks… Read More ›
The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades
By Liz Stinson A Spanish company called Vortex Bladeless is proposing a radical new way to generate wind energy that will once again upend what you see outside your car window. Their idea is the Vortex, a bladeless wind turbine… Read More ›
Why Is Louisiana Flooding So Badly, And How Can We Prepare For It Next Time?
Setting an unprecedented precedent By Mary Beth Griggs What Happened In Louisiana? Barry Keim, Louisiana State Climatologist and a professor of climatology, can trace the storm back to August 3, when it formed just off the coast of Florida, a… Read More ›
Gold Mining Has Devastated The Peruvian Amazon
By Alejandro Davila Fragoso When Meraldo Umiña moved to the Madre De Dios region of Peru in 1983, the toxic gold rush that’s destroyed swaths of Amazon rainforest there was in its infancy. There were no laws regulating informal or… Read More ›
Mega-tsunamis in Mars’s ancient ocean shaped planet’s landscape
Giant waves, possibly triggered by two meteorite impacts, may have shaped Mars’s coastline and could hint at whether the red planet was once habitable. By Nicola Davis Mega-tsunamis in an ancient ocean on Mars may have shaped the landscape and… Read More ›
The 4th Largest Economy In The World Just Generated 90 Percent Of The Power It Needs From Renewables
By Jeremy Deaton On Sunday, for a brief, shining moment, renewable power output in Germany reached 90 percent of the country’s total electricity demand. That’s a big deal. On May 8th, at 11 a.m. local time, the total output of… Read More ›
A Mine vs. a Million Monarchs
By Dan Fagin THE national tourism agency calls the Mexican mountain town of Angangueo a “Pueblo Mágico.” If so, it is a dark magic. In recent years, Angangueo’s 5,000 inhabitants have been cursed by calamities natural and manufactured. Snowstorms, mudslides… Read More ›
What Flips Your Switch?
snags your attention, a smell that has your brain singing chorals, a taste accompanied by moans of pleasure or a touch makes you tingle? There are 6 main senses in the system of the human brain and body that… Read More ›
‘Largest-ever’ Gas Field in Mediterranean Discovered Off Egypt, Italian Energy Giant Eni Says
Eni says after full development, the discovery will be able to ensure satisfying Egypt’s natural gas demands ‘for decades.’ The Italian energy company Eni SpA announced Sunday it has discovered a “supergiant” natural gas field off Egypt, describing it as… Read More ›
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