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By Brad Jacobson
When ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline burst last month, filling the streets and front lawns of small-town Mayflower, Arkansas, with pools of heavy crude oil, the company followed what has by now become standard protocol: attend to the spill and clamp down on the media. It’s a scenario all too familiar to those journalists who covered 2010’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, and to the people of the Gulf Coast desperate for information about
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President Obama cheers on the National Academy of Sciences in its 150th year.
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New natural gas production methods (like hydraulic fracturing) had already had a major positive impact on the economy of gas-rich countries like the U.S. and had even led to a visible decline in energy-related carbon emissions. These benefits will soon reach many distant shores as shipyards in Korea and in other countries are building new liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers to move the fuel around. Many of the new supertankers will use electric propulsion systems. Read more »
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Jim Yardley, reporting for the New York Times: India is often demarcated along lines of caste or class. But many of India’s rapidly growing cities are also delineated by the legal status of where people live. For years, as migrants have poured into Indian cities in search of work and opportunity, illegal settlements, often slums, [...]∞
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By Martin LaMonica
Before raising more than $1 billion in private capital to start his own “green car” company, Henrik Fisker was a designer for the likes of Aston Martin and BMW, and it shows in the cutting-edge, plug-in electric vehicle he released two years ago. This is the kind of car that will make you turn around and notice -- slung low to the ground, boasting bold curves and an overall sleek look. Based in Anaheim, California, Fisker Automotive
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Through production testing of well 34/10-A-8, Statoil Petroleum AS has proven a substantial volume of oil in the Shetland group/Lista formation, which is located above the Gullfaks field in the North Sea. The estimated volume of the deposit is 6—24 m3 (210—850 cubic feet). Read more »
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Michael Kimmelman, reporting for the New York Times: A struggle — and also a race — pits the forces of collapse against the halting emergence of a new urban class, born in the aftermath of the revolution. Egyptians have long been experts at fending for themselves in a top-down system where the president ruled by [...]∞
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Bees have been an important environmental commodity for centuries, both in the direct production of consumer products such as honey and beeswax, as well as their indirect contribution to the production of fruits and vegetables through pollination.
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According to a study done at the Duke University, biogas collected from hog farms can be used within the existing natural gas infrastructure in a cost-effective way. Specifically, methane biogas can be piped into natural gas pipelines in accordance with North Carolina’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS) and then used to generate a relatively cheap electricity. Read more »
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A 13-year-old girl interviewed me last week about my job, through which I communicate with journalists around the world about climate change and other environmental issues. She is part of the generation that worries about such things, according to a … Continue reading →
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Sorry for the brief hiatus from blogging. This past week I was in Kenora and Dryden, Ontario getting into some great science outreach with an organization from uOttawa called Science Travels. Science Travels is a science outreach organization that sends science graduate students from the University of Ottawa and Carleton to northern communities to give [...]
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By The Editors
Next stop, Washington: President Obama will announce today his choice to replace Ray LaHood as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation: Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx. The young Democratic mayor -- he turns 42 tomorrow -- already has a number of transportation and infrastructure accomplishments under his belt, from adding airport runways to building a new facility allowing for the quick transfer of cargo from trucks to trains, but his
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By Dr. Wayne Cascio I was pleased to see that the American Lung Association’s annual “State of the Air” report notes that the country’s air is getting cleaner—a perfect way to kick off Air Quality Awareness Week (April 29 through May 3). The report, based on EPA findings from 2009 through 2011, should not only [...]
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These two brothers have not only done an amazing job saving the Polar bear and American badger, they've been animal lifesavers in their own community as well. Check out their story!
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Welcome to the penultimate day of the April Blog Love Challenge! Today’s blogs are:
The Wellcome Trust blog has an extract from Guru magazine on why we’re constantly battling chaos and will never have tidy desks.
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