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- In India, Digital Green extends the impact of agricultural extension services using YouTube.
- TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Friday it lost the ability to cool radioactive fuel rods in one of the plant's crippled reactors for about three hours earlier in the day.
- Ken Salazar took over an agency that had been the scene of financial scandal and political malpractice in the Bush administration and succeeded in restoring a measure of ethics and morale.
- Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former Enron chief executive, could be released from prison early under a possible agreement with the government, according to a notice on the Justice Department’s Web site.
- German researchers have found a way to overcome one of the problems with renewable energy – the fact that it is not always available – by linking solar, wind and biogas plants.
- Which source of renewable energy is most important to the European Union? Solar power, perhaps? Or wind? The answer is neither. By far the largest so-called renewable fuel used in Europe is wood. Call it a case of environmental lunacy in Europe.
- Glacial ice in the Peruvian Andes that took at least 1,600 years to form has melted in just 25 years, scientists reported Thursday, the latest indication that the recent spike in global temperatures has thrown the natural world out of balance.
- For a half-century scientists have strived for controlled fusion and been disappointed, only to adjust their theories, retry and be disappointed again. The $3.5 billion National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in...
- As tax day 2013 approaches, look for tax savings from energy efficiency. Energy-saving appliances are more prevalent than ever. Making your home more energy efficient can generate tax credits come tax day.
- The proposed ratcheting up of Alberta’s carbon levy stands to win few plaudits from oil-sands opponents who have targeted TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline, and would set emission reduction targets that many companies may find impossible to...
- Billions of dollars in bondholder investment in water and wastewater systems face heightened risk from changing environmental conditions, including climate change, prompting some investors to call for water utilities to do a better job assessing and...
- Denis McDonough, the White House chief of staff, has been part of President Obama’s inner circle for nearly a decade. But what a lot of people don’t know about McDonough is that he has a background on climate change, and he takes the issue very...
- The sources and governance of climate finance has been widely debated since the 2009 climate change summit in Copenhagen, where industrialised countries committed to giving $100 billion a year in additional climate finance from 2020 onwards.
- France is pushing ahead with plans to harness geothermal energy from smoldering rock deep in the earth’s crust using drilling methods the oil industry says are like hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which France outlawed in 2011.
- Rainfall or snowfall dumped by the most intense storms could grow significantly heavier in most of the United States by the final decades of the century, according to a new climate change study.
- Peru's Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year, but a radical engineering solution for water scarcity could soon create an agricultural bonanza here.
- A vast plain of poisonous green slime stretching to the horizon, bobbing gently on the waves – that was the view of Lake Erie from Cleveland just a couple years ago. It could become a permanent feature if humans don't scramble to do something about...
- Right in the middle of Port Arthur, Texas stands a strategic outpost for Saudi Arabia’s global ambitions, although one that the Saudis appear loath to publicize.
- Shenzhen, a Special Economic Zone designed to promote market policies in China, will start emissions trading on June 17, the first announced start date among the country's regional carbon exchanges.
- U.S. environmental groups are pressing President Barack Obama's administration to back off a World Trade Organization case against India they say threatens the ability of the world's second most populous country to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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