Month: January 2009

New Study Challenges Theory Behind Methane Production In Plants

redOrbit: New research is challenging the recent finding that plants could be a major source…

Reuters: Lisa Jackson, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, needs to…

Reuters: President-elect Barack Obama will have a hard time significantly increasing America’s alternative energy production,…

What would the US make of a stem cell U-turn?

Solar is part of “clean tech,” but an environmental group is urging the industry to…

To the suicide vest, the rocket and the battering ram, those longtime staples of conflict…

Like every chief executive before him, President-elect Barack Obama will be making personal sacrifices as…

Spain’s Prado Museum has teamed up with Google Earth for a project that allows people…

A task force charged with assessing technologies for protecting children from unwanted contact online has…

The earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx lithographica, had hearing like a modern emu.