Apr
06
Why wasn't early Earth frozen? Thank the oceans
With just 70 to 75 per cent as much sunlight hitting the Earth in its early days four billion years
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Apr
06
New breakthrough could revive promise of better solar cells
Researchers in Canada say they might have found a way to overcome the cost and technology problems that have kept
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Apr
02
Study: US setting cost of carbon perilously low
The US government is hurting its efforts to regulate carbon dioxide emissions by using flawed economic models that grossly underestimate
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Apr
02
Jurdy: Past peak
Jurdy realises that what goes up must eventually come down …
Apr
02
'Entrepreneur Heroes' trading cards support micro-finance
What a cool idea: have some of the ‘net’s top bloggers choose their favourite entrepreneur, feature those entrepreneurs on
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Apr
01
Where does your recycling go? The sight can be 'soul destroying'
With groggy eyes and messed up, bed-head hair I stumble down the stairs of my studio flat in central London,
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Apr
01
The Magic 8 Ball explains new US move to 'Drill, baby, drill'
So US President Barack Obama has decided to open vast new stretches of the nation’s coastline to oil and
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Mar
31
On energy: Focus on the scalable, not the possible
There’s a lesson the would-be architects of our clean, renewable-energy future can take from the international response to the
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Mar
31
Scientists seek climate secrets buried in NZ peat bogs
Ancient conifers buried in the peat bogs of New Zealand could hold the key to a better understanding of changes
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Mar
31
Britain sees busy week for low-carbon, climate plans
Energy- and carbon-minded British officials are keeping busy this week: on the eve of a rollout of new feed-in tariffs
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