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Month: March 2010
For electric car batteries, Nissan bets on leasing
Bloomberg News: Lithium-ion batteries are the most expensive part for electric vehicles, at about $1,000…
Retired Brandeis professor brings solar power to African villages
New York Times: Where nightfall once meant only darkness in the tiny Tanzanian island of…
Climate change knocks at Kashmir’s doors
DNA: The day temperatures in Srinagar hover around 22 to 26 degrees Celsius which is…
Climate change, development blamed for rapidly rising number of ‘100-year storms’
Eagle Tribune: In their worst form, they were known as "100-year storms": catastrophes that occurred…
Leading climate officials urge progress in battle against global warming
Agence France-Presse: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has listened to and learned from recent…
Global cooling is bunk, draft NASA study finds
Daily Climate: Global warming has neither stopped nor slowed in the past decade, according to…
United Kingdom: Energy minister will hold summit to calm rising fears over peak oil
Guardian: Lord Hunt, the energy minister, is to meet industrialists in London tomorrow in a…
Britain. A breath of foul air
Independent (UK): More than 50,000 people are dying prematurely in the UK every year, and…
Solution to a thirsty world: sea water without the salt
Times (UK): MIDDLE East government officials spent last week in Vienna, discussing oil at a…