Charting a Crooked River’s Renaissance
The revival of Cleveland's incendiary Cuyahoga River teaches that environmental restoration, no matter how daunting, is possible.
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Even With Climate Change, Nuclear a Hard Sell
As political debate heats up about a potentially greater role for nuclear energy in a world struggling to abate global warming, British researchers have been looking at what influences public opinion on this issue.
Did Archimedes Solve Our Energy Crisis?
Sticking solar concentrators where the sun shines could potentially generate phenomenal amounts of electricity. But the perfect technology doesn't yet exist.
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
The United States has built one of the most advanced technological societies the world has ever seen, but we still don't really know when spring starts.
More Hype Equals Less Action on Climate Change
Two new surveys regarding Americans' attitudes toward climate change suggest that Americans have yet to make a personal connection to the issue.
Electrifying the Developed World
The German experience offers an excellent model for creating a solar cell marketplace.
Solar Cells From Space to Earth
How the in-space success of the world's first solar cell-powered satellite encouraged their commercialization across the globe.
Photovoltaics: A Bright Idea
John Perlin chronicles solar electrical generation from wishful thinking to realized dream.
Finding Health, and Opportunity, in the Latrine
Ecological sanitation, or 'ecosan,' can provide both improved hygiene and an income for the majority of the world, where just getting a sip of clean water can be a challenge.
Changing Lanes
A study of peak-hour traffic along the thousand-plus miles of high-occupancy vehicle routes in California shows that carpooling may not be the best solution for solving the state's — not to mention the nation's — traffic congestion problem.