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In response to a Supreme Court ruling that found carbon dioxide qualifies as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act, President Bush has called for changes designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2008. "Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA must take action under the Clean Air Act...
Global warming may hit the eastern United States harder than scientists thought, resulting in extremely hot summers. Average summer high temperatures could reach almost 10 degrees higher in 2080 than they do today. Eastern U.S. summer daily highs currently average in the low to mid-80s Fahrenheit. T...
IBM will begin investing $1 billion per year across its businesses to dramatically increase the energy efficiency of information technology. As part of its "Project Big Green" plan that includes new products and services, IBM aims to sharply reduce data center energy consumption and to transform the...
A team of astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has mapped temperature variations over the surface of the giant gas planet HD 189733b, revealing it is likely being whipped by roaring winds. "We have mapped the temperature variations with longitude across the entire surface of the planet t...
In an unprecedented cooperative effort to combat climate change, 31 states have joined forces to create The Climate Registry, a national initiative to track greenhouse gas emissions. The newly formed Climate Registry is a tool to measure, track, verify and publicly report greenhouse gas emissions ac...
Leading scientific institutions from around the world have collaborated on one the largest Web projects to date: a global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of plants and animals on Earth in a free online resource called "Encyclopedia of Life." Similar to Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia of...
A team of astronomers working with NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has witnessed the brightest supernova ever seen, leading them to suggest that a similar explosion may be imminent in a star in our own galaxy. "This supernova was not only bright, but also rather slow in its development, which means...
Wal-Mart Stores has launched a 10-year pilot project to use solar power at 22 Wal-Mart sites in California and Hawaii, the company announced Monday. SunEdison, PowerLight and BP Solar will supply an estimated 20 million kilowatt-hours per year across the Wal-Mart locations, making this one of the la...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a summary Friday of its latest report on global warming. The report, which was gleaned from the help of 2,000 scientists, calls for the world to cut emissions of CO2 and shift energy sources to renewable fuels. The report also calls for the stab...
LucasArts and Day 1 Studios on Wednesday unveiled "Fracture," a new shooter game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in which environmental devastation has split the United States into two warring halves. Set in the year 2161, "Fracture" puts players in the role of Mason Briggs, a demolitions expert figh...
Just days before a May 9 congressional oversight hearing into the Bush administration's violations of the Endangered Species Act and censorship of science, a top-ranking Interior Department official resigned Monday. Julie MacDonald, who was the assistant secretary of fish, wildlife and parks, respon...
Forget joysticks: New toys in the works at San Jose, Calif.-based NeuroSky reportedly use players' brain waves to control the action. The toys include a sensor, which is placed on the player's forehead to read the brain's electrical signals. Moves are dependent on the player's concentration. In a pr...
World-renowned physicist, cosmologist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking fulfilled a lifelong dream Thursday when he experienced zero gravity and weightlessness for the first time aboard Zero Gravity's G-Force One. The flight took off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Cente...
A European team of astronomers has discovered what may be the most Earth-like planet outside of our solar system, potentially capable of having liquid water and extraterrestrial life. The planet, Gliese 581 c, named after the red dwarf star Gliese 581 that it orbits every 13 days, is about 20.5 ligh...
A pair of NASA spacecraft have recorded the first 3-D images of the sun, giving scientists and space weather experts a much-improved ability to monitor and predict solar storms that can disrupt communications satellites, interfere with widely-used GPS systems, and knock out electrical power grids. T...
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