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Add a new word to your lexicon: Biopiracy. That’s what U.S.-based agribusiness giant Monsanto has been accused of in India, where the government is planning to charge the company with violating the country’s biodiversity laws over a genetically modified version of eggplant. In doing so, India has placed itself at the focal point of [...]
02/01/2012Read More
About halfway between St. Louis and Chicago, nestled in the fertile corn and soybean fields of Illinois, a quiet electric car revolution is sprouting up in the town of Normal, a town that in some ways is anything but. That’s because this vibrant, forward-looking community of 50,000—along with its adjacent sister city of Bloomington (pop 74,000)—calls itself “EV [...]
01/30/2012Read More
By Tom Laskawy – When I wrote recently about the next generation of genetically engineered seeds, I was in truth referring to the next next generation. The fact is that the next actual generation of seeds is already out of the lab and poised for approval by the USDA. And I’m not talking about [...]
11/11/2011Read More
Theres something of a new sunrise in the Arctic this year. And Im not just talking about the spectacularly beautiful event that begins every spring day. The Arctic Sunrise is a ship belonging to Greenpeace, which has done battle in many corners of the world against most things that the organisation detests. [...]
07/21/2011Read More
SINGAPORE’S average annual rainfall is more than double that of notoriously soggy Britain, so the casual observer might be surprised to learn that the place has a shortage of drinking water. Yet with around 7,000 people per square kilometre, Singapore is the third most densely populated country in the world. Its land mass [...]
05/14/2011Read More
A new method of making electricity from sunlight has just been tested AT THE moment, there are two reliable ways to make electricity from sunlight. You can use a panel of solar cells to create the current directly, by liberating electrons from a semiconducting material such as silicon. Or you can concentrate the sun’s [...]
05/06/2011Read More
TO CALL it a hot ticket might, in the circumstances, seem a tad tasteless. But no session at this year’s International Conference on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, held in the south of France, was as well attended as the late-running special plenary hastily arranged to provide an update on the nuclear disaster [...]
04/25/2011Read More
Your guide to the worst oil spill in US history, one year later. 1. BP is gunning to get back to drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. When the Department of Interior issued its first deepwater permit since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, it was for a well that BP owns half of. Earlier this [...]
04/25/2011Read More
When Claudette Trepanier made a few small changes in her daily routine to take advantage of off-peak hydro hours, she was able to shave $1, 200 a year from her hydro bill. To encourage people like Trepanier, who lives in Ottawa, to use off-peak hours, when electricity is in low demand and [...]
03/25/2011Read More
David Suzuki turned 75 Thursday and after a half-century of fighting for the planet, the Godfather of Canada’s environmental movement is frustrated and worried. The scientist, turned media celebrity, turned environmental activist, is looking back on his life and calling on Canada’s seniors to provide guidance to the country’s next generation of [...]
03/17/2011Read More
Add another notch to Oregon’s growing wave power industry. The case for commercialized wave energy is enjoying another surge forward now that Columbia Power Technologies has officially deployed a prototype wave energy device and secured fresh funding from both private and government backers. Just a few months ago we reported that the [...]
