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Dow Chemical Rolling Out Solar Shingles Next Year
How Augmented Reality Browsers Stack Up For Navigating London
Scientists Create Artificial Meat
Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid
The Story Behind a Failed HPC Startup
Toyota Develops New Flower Species To Reduce Pollution
Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea
Birth of a New African Ocean
Building a Miniature Magnetic Earth
China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air
Earth Could Collide With Other Planets
Insects May Have Had a Hand In Dinosaur Extinction
Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element
Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World
1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out
Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging"
Alternatives to Daylight Saving Time?
Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here
A Sixth Region In the Magnetosphere
Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow
Geoengineering To Cool the Earth Becoming Thinkable
Energy Star Program Needs an Overhaul
Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming
Great White Sharks Visiting San Francisco
New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use
Zipingpu Dam May Have Triggered the Sichuan Quake
Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors?
Venture Capitalism To the Rescue
Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction
Asteroid Explodes Over Sudan
Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US
White Christmas In Antarctica
Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End
US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next
Is Alcohol Killing Our Planet?
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails
Evolving Rocks
Most Complete Topographical Map of Earth Complete
Spelunkers Explore Crystalline Cave In New Mexico
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest
Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid
Portable Solar Power For Portable Hardware?
Antarctica Once Abutted Death Valley
China Claims Score In Weather Manipulation
China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City
Hawaii Planning State-Wide Electric Car Network
New Map of Carved Up Arctic
Spectacular Fossil Forests Found In US Coalmine
Watching China Turn Off the Pollution
Esther Dyson To Train For Space Flight
Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes
Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid
Boeing 747 Modified To Act As Infrared Telescope
Wind and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives
Tapping the Earth For Home Heating and Cooling
Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food
Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara
Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked
EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas
German Team Wins 2009 Solar Decathlon
Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health?
Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated
NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears
Plowing Carbon Into the Fields
Recycling Excess Heat From the Data Center
Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation
A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice
World's Oldest Rocks Found
Zapping Contrails With Microwave Emitters
Evolution of Intelligence More Complex Than Once Thought
More Evidence For a Clovis-Killer Comet
First Mars-Goers Should Prepare For a One-Way Trip
Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ
Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices
Tsunami Invisibility Cloak
Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over
Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air
The Inexact Science of Carbon Neutrality
O'Reilly Interview Digs Into the Tech of Storm Chasing
Arctic Sea Ice Rallies a Bit
As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland
Rainforest Fungus Synthesizes Diesel
Intel Testing Solar Power For Data Centers
A Super-Efficient Light Bulb
Finding Twin Earths Is Harder Than We Thought
Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter
Antarctic Ice Bridge Finally Breaks Off
What the US Can Learn From Europe's Pollution Credit System
Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk
The Illuminati Project Pushes For Dark Skies In 2009
1.4 Billion Pixel Camera To Watch For Asteroids
95M-Year-Old Octopus Fossils Discovered
Aquaduct Bike Purifies Water As You Pedal
UV-Resistant Micro-Organisms Discovered In the Stratosphere
GM Cornered Into Defending the Volt
Spookfish Uses Mirrors For Eyes
Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts
Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable
Drilling Hits an Active Magma Chamber In Hawaii
New Generator Boosts Wind Turbine Efficiency 50%
Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming
Daylight Savings Time Increases Energy Use In Indiana
RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink
Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse
Every Satellite Tracked In Realtime Via Google Earth
Google Earth Beaten By Autorendering From Photos
Hot Water, Hot Earth
North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September?
Nukes Not the Best Way To Stop Asteroids, Says Apollo Astronaut
The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913
Is Climate Change Affecting Bushfires?
Earthquake In China
Scientists Build an Ark To Save Jungle Amphibians
Acorns Disappear Across the Country
Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds
Leap Second To Be Added Dec 31, 2008
On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit
Two Big Tests For Personal Rapid Transportation
Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed
US Halts Applications For Solar Energy Projects
First Solar Eclipse Recorded From Moon
Microsoft, Google Battle Over Energy Efficiency
"Gigantic Jets" Blast Electricity Into the Ionosphere
"Heat Wheel" Could Lower Data Center Power Bills
"Liquid Wood" a Contender To Replace Plastic
"Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste
$1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight
$250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer
1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change
100-MPG Air-Powered Car Headed To US Next Year
12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland
125 Years of Longitude 0 0' 00" At Greenwich
2 Finds Add To Giant Earthworm Science In Northwest
2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century
220-mph Solar-Powered Train Proposed In Arizona
3-Man Team Begins Ice-Survey Trek To the North Pole
4-Winged Proto-Bird Unearthed In China; Predates Archaeopteryx
7-Story Wooden Condo Survives 7.5 Magnitude Quake
88% of Electronics Exports Reused, Not Dumped
A Clever New Approach To Desalination
A Geek Funeral
A Server Farm Powered By a Wind Farm
A Supervolcano Beneath Mt. St. Helens?
A Waste Gasification Plant In a Truck
Air Force & NASA Fire Off Green Rocket
Alabama Wages War Against the Perfect Weed
Alaskan Blob Is an Algae Bloom
Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming
Alaskans Prepare For Volcanic Eruption
Algae First To Recover After Asteroid Strike
American Solar Challenge Racers Head For Canada
Analysis Says Planes Might Be Greener Than Trains
Ancient Ecosystem Found In Ice Pocket
Ancient Yeast Used To Brew Modern Beer
Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station
Arthropod Chain Gangs
Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth
Bacteria Found Alive In Ice 120,000 Years Old
Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars
Brazil Demands Repatriation of UK Hazardous Waste
Building a Green PC
Bye Bye Bananas — the Return of Panama Disease
CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage
CFLs Causing Utility Woes
Can Bill Gates Prevent the Next Katrina?
Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars?
Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic
Captain Bligh's Logbooks To Yield Climate Bounty
Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells On the Horizon
Carbon-Neutral Ziggurat Could House 1.1 Million In Dubai
Carnegie Researchers Say Geotech Can't Cure Ocean Acidification
Changes In Rocks Noted Before Earthquakes
Changes In Rocks Noted Before Earthquakes
Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity
China To Snap 4 Space Ships Into a Station
China and Japan Covet the Same Rare-Earth Metals
Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car
Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas
Climate Change Bill Includes IP Protections
Compressor-Free Refrigerator On the Way
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End
Consumers May Find Smart Appliances a Dumb Idea
Cosmic Radiation Makes Trees Grow Faster
DIY Google Street View Project?
DIY Solar Resources?
Data Centers Expected to Pollute More Than Airlines by 2020
Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy
Debunking the Google Earth Censorship Myth
DoE Considers Artificial Trees To Remove CO2
Drugs In Our Drinking Water
E. Coli Can Be Used To Clean Up Nuclear Waste
EBay Pressured To Block Sales of Ivory Products
ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms
EPA Quashed Report Skeptical of Global Warming
EPA To Reuse Toxic Sites For Renewable Energy
Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life
Earth May Once Have Had Multiple Moons
Earth and Moon From an Alien's Perspective
Eco-Marathon Team Hits 2,843 mpg
Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids