Reuters: California and 15 other U.S. states on Tuesday sought to overturn a Bush administration…
Category: Science
U.K. Government Nuclear-Power Inquiry `Failed,’ Academics Say
Bloomberg: A U.K. government inquiry into whether the state should back the construction of new…
Australia: This drought may never break
Sydney Morning Herald: IT MAY be time to stop describing south-eastern Australia as gripped by…
Dramatic food price increases threaten the world’s hungry
Reuters: World food prices are rising faster than they have for more than 30 years,…
Indonesia: Farmers suffer from booming palm oil
Jakarta Post: The Indonesian Farmers’ Union criticized the government Wednesday for mismanagement in the food…
What to do when oil hits $100 a barrel
Christian Science Monitor: For the first time, oil prices have nosed above $100 a barrel….
Northern plants ‘losing carbon’ due to warming
SciDev.Net: Global warming could cause plants in northern regions to lose carbon to the atmosphere…
China closes over 10,000 coal mines in last three years
China View: China closed 10,412 coal mines in the last three years amid efforts to…
Pop goes the solar bubble?
Salon: Moore’s law giveth, and Moore’s law taketh away. A little more than a year…