CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Google X, the company's secretive research and development arm, has acquired Makani Power, a California-based developer of airborne wind power. Google's purchase of Makani Power reflects the company's interest in renewables and energy innovation.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Despite substantial gains in US oil and natural gas production, there are restrictions in place on how much of those reserves can reach foreign markets, Graeber writes. Some suggest the liquefied natural gas race is going to be a race against...
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Warm sea-surface temperatures and the long-reaching effect of conditions in the tropical Pacific are among the factors that could mean above-normal activity during the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season.
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DISCOVERY NEWS
Out of approximately 20,000 shipwrecks in U.S. waters, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently identified 36 sunken vessels that most threaten to disgorge their oily innards. Continue reading →
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TREEHUGGER
This simple and easy recipe is perfect for summer grilling.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
SEATTLE — A large section of a bridge on Interstate 5 north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, sending vehicles and people plunging into the swirling, icy waters of the Skagit River.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
With IBM colleague Gerd Binnig, Rohrer invented the scanning tunneling microscope, which can show individual atoms on a surface and move them around.The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands...
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
Southern California beaches had overall good water quality during the last year, and a vast majority of beaches received good to excellent ratings, according to an annual report released Thursday by Heal the Bay.
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MOTHER JONES
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.
We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide. But we don't have a word for the...
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THE INDEPENDENT
It ran to 2,094 words. But for many observers, Barack Obama’s second inaugural address was all about just two of them: climate change. The President’s decision to make global warming a key theme of his speech has sparked new hope that the...
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