Latest Environment Stories
The Atmospheric Signature of the Japan Tsunami Could Help Develop a Space-Based Warning System
New Printable Antenna Can Harvest Ambient Energy To Power Small Electronics
Philips’ Luminous Wallpaper Will Create the Mood Lighting of the Future
New Spinning Heat Sink Design Could Trim Energy Use and Unleash Processing Power
USDA Won’t Regulate Genetically Modified Grass, Sparking Superweed Worries
Spray-Can Cooling Foams Keep Japan Comfortably Chilled in This Summer Heat
Asian Air Pollution Could Be Behind the Halt in Rising Global Temperatures
Inside the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor
Your Set-Top Box Is Murdering Your Electric Bill. Here’s What You Can Do
Are We Prepared for a Catastrophic Solar Storm?
Spiders Fleeing Pakistan’s Floodwater Take to the Trees
German Lab Generates the Strongest Magnetic Field Ever Created
Video: Solar Sinter Project Turns the Desert’s Free Abundance of Sand and Sun into 3-D-Printed Glass
Concepts & Prototypes: Two Next-Gen Nukes
Video: Automatic Butcherbot Debones 1,500 Whole Chickens Per Hour
Scientists Coax Brewer’s Yeast into Making Evolutionary Leap to Multicellularity
Humans Might Be Able to See the Earth’s Magnetic Field, Like Birds Do
Study: Rising Global Temperatures Spur Steepest Sea Level Rise In 2,100 Years
The First Self-Powering Nano-Device That Can Also Transmit Wireless Data
Pocket Particle Accelerators Like This One Could Bring Safer Nuclear Power to Neighborhoods
Coming Solar Minimum Could Chill the Earth, New Forecast Predicts
July 2011: The Future of Energy
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Stem-Cell Therapy Works Wonders for Race Horses; Are Human Treatments Next?
Google Earth Goes Under the Sea
First Hybrid Power Plant Will Combine Solar, Wind and Natural Gas
Super-Dense Forms of Carbon Could Out-Sparkle the Shiniest Diamond
Quantum Entanglement Means Computers Could Cool Themselves By Deleting Information
Are We Ignoring the Small but Brilliant Innovations That Could Bridge the Energy Gap?
Space Based Solar Power
Finally, a Garbage-to-Energy Scheme That Might Actually Work
On Planning a Transcontinental Trip (With Enough Time for Recharging)
Japanese Elderly Offer to Take Over Fukushima Nuclear Cleanup
Firefighters’ Flame-Throwing Toolkits Keep Wildfires in Check
Slow-Motion X-Ray Video Reveals the Slurpy Mechanics of Dogs’ Drinking
Book of Fungi Makes Us Want to Go Mushroom-Hunting
Preparing for Permanent Climate Change, Chicago Invests in Warm-Weather-Ready Infrastructure
In Brazil, an Explosion in Computing Power is Revolutionizing Weather Prediction
The Top 10 New Species of 2011
As Congress Fusses Over Climate Semantics, the U.S. Faces a Weather Satellite Gap
2011 Invention Awards: Sniffing Out Bedbugs
To Harvest Natural Gas From the Ocean, Shell Is Building the World’s Largest Man-Made Floating Object
How Darpa’s Tiny Robotic Hummingbird Hovers and Films
A Tiny Turbine in Your Veins Could Harvest Power From Your Blood Flow
Citizens in Flood Zone Build Homemade Levees to Protect Their Homes
‘Concrete Canvas’ Makes Erecting Permanent Buildings As Easy as Pitching a Tent
New Tougher Bedbugs Are Harder Than Ever to Kill
How 29 Long-Ignored Elements Could Make or Break the Clean-Energy Revolution
We Asked Twelve Ocean Experts How to Save the Seas
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Divers Attempt to Communicate With Wild Dolphins, Using A Two-Way Translation Device
Saving the Seas: Reducing Fertilizer Runoff to Resurrect Ocean Dead Zones
Former Apollo Astronaut and Senator Says Mining Helium on the Moon Could Solve The Global Energy Crisis
Burning Waste From Whisky Production, a Scottish Energy Project Will Power 9,000 Homes
Saving the Seas: Fixing the Water Cycle Is the Key
Saving the Seas: Bleaching Threatens Coral, But Phage Therapy Could Prevent “Ghostly” Reefs
New Jerseyites Hate New Solar Panels, Brand Them “Hideous”
Things Fire Ants Behave Like: Gore-Tex, a Liquid, a Woven Material, and a Waterproof Raft
Bee Hackers Help Hives With Unconventional Tools
New Fog-Harvesting Devices Could Provide Clean Drinking Water for the World’s Poor
Atomic Gardens, the Biotechnology of the Past, Can Teach Lessons About the Future of Farming
New Graphene Material is Paper-Thin and Ten Times Stronger Than Steel
Across America On A Single Light Bulb’s Worth of Power
How Humans Manipulate the Planet For The Sake of a Good Game
Man’s Best Friend Gets a High-Tech Home
Hydrocarbons Could Form Deep In the Earth From Methane, Not Animal Remains