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Dealing with global warming ranks at the bottom of the public’s list of priorities; just 28% consider this a top priority, the lowest measure for any issue tested in the survey.
Herbie, a massive tree that stretched 110 feet into the sky, captured the imagination of a town's residents and earned the title of New England's champion elm, was cut down Tuesday after a long battle with Dutch elm disease. It was more than 200 years old.
This is a nice winter project to do anytime it’s cold enough. It adds some decoration into a yard bare of flowers and most of its greenery, and depending on what you use, will become a handy natural dispenser for either birdseed or self-sown wildflower seeds.
Unless you live in a yurt in Alaska, you've probably had local kids show up at your front door to sell you candy and cookies, wrapping paper, and candles as part of fund-raising efforts for their schools. But compact fluorescent light bulbs?
No, it’s not a new Special Forces group in the U.S. military…but it does sometimes occur under the cover of darkness.
Green once again is being pushed at CES, but this year's offerings leave much to be desired. Greener mobile devices would be a welcome development, considering the rate at which people are tossing out old phones to adopt the newest models.
Tomorrow morning, General Motors will take a significant step in furthering the country's EV industry. It will start operations at the nation's first battery pack plant run by a U.S. automaker. The plant in Brownstown Township, MI will assemble the battery packs for the Chevy Volt.
Australia's government came under pressure from lawmakers on Wednesday to block "spy flights" launched by Japanese whalers from Australian airports to foil hardline anti-whaling activists in the Southern Ocean.
As is common knowledge, solar energy installations are only as good as the direct sun they face. There’s nothing to do at night, and clouds are a bad thing. In an interesting turn of events, solar energy appears to have overcome that giant hurdle, in what some optimistic people call the “Holy Grail for Renewable Energy” by capturing waste heat.
Experts say millions in developing countries could be on the move because of worsening climate change. Intense storms and floods, salinization damage to crops caused by the encroaching sea and especially worsening river erosion have left many people with no option than to leave their farm land.
