Lessons From the Reverse Engineering of Nature
A Miller-McCune Research Essay by Columbia University professor Shahid Naeem on the importance of biodiversity and the true significance of the human species.
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The Salt Mine Solution
In the Salado salt formation a half-mile below the New Mexico desert, WIPP has room to store all the radioactive waste an expanded nuclear power program could produce. Emphasis on the word could.
Tilting at Turbines
Many environmentalists oppose a "green" idea for tidal power in the U.K. So do British surfers.
Hot Idea Wins Innovation Award after Two Centuries
A greenhouse-on-the-go first described centuries ago may help fight climate change while improving Third World health.
Riddles of an Acerbic Sea
Aside from global climate change, carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to another equally disturbing global problem: Ocean acidification — and its potential effects on marine ecosystems, especially coral reefs — has biologists very concerned.
Eating Creosote: A Poisonous Response to Climate Change
Genetic mutations are allowing woodrats to eat toxic creosote as climate change makes their preferred diet of juniper harder to find.
‘Clean Coal’ By Any Other Name
The marketing war between industry and environmentalists over the catchphrase belies a pragmatic truth: Both sides really want the same thing.
Is White the New Green?
Three California energy experts make a convincing -- and sincere -- case that painting roofs white in the hot parts of the planet could offset the greenhouse gas woes caused by the world's cars
Keeping Cool With the Albedo Effect
The co-author of A Golden Thread: 2500 Years of Solar Architecture and Technology takes a look at how white backgrounds — be they snow, concrete or rooftops — might help bend back a little bit of global warming.
Power to the (Fishing) People
Pilot project democratizes — and hopefully improves — gathering of scientific data by enlisting commercial fishermen in the study of their local fisheries.