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A Lighting Breakthrough
General Electric announces an LED heat-management innovation, but it's rivals race to get to the market first.
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A Push for Offshore Wind
Google and a team of investors and energy firms aim to an offshore wind power revolution to the United State's East Coast.
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Beating Obama to the Solar Punch
The Maldives highlight climate risk by installing solar energy on its presidential residence, outpacing the White House.
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Photos: "Spirit Bear" Region at Risk
In the home of the elusive "spirit bear," nine Coastal First Nations people await a decision on a pipeline to carry Canadian oil to sea for export to Asia.
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Replacing Oil Addiction With Metals Dependence?
China’s pivotal role as world supplier of rare-earth metals raises alarm that the new energy economy will mean the same old foreign dependence.
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Renewable Energy: Ontario’s New Gold Rush
Ontario is better known for majestic falls and forests than for its sun, but a one-year-old government incentive program has made the Canadian province a solar energy hotbed.
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The Solvable Problem of Energy Poverty
Assuring all the world's people have electricity and modern cooking technology is affordable, and can be done without worsening climate change, a United Nations report says.
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Light is the Bright IDEA for Transport
Bright Automotive aims to engineer a fuel-saving electric commercial vehicle large enough to appeal to the U.S. market.
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Hope for Stemming Wind Energy’s Toll on Bats
Wind energy projects pose a threat to migratory bats, but simple steps show promise for protecting them.
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Warming Solution: Just Stop Cold?
The burden on the planet from today's cars is bearable, say researchers who warn that future added emissions are the real risk.
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Mining the Truth on Coal Supplies
A new study challenges the belief that the globe holds vast stores of coal, the world's leading and most carbon-intensive electricity fuel.
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Hurricanes Could Carry "Oil" Inland
As Atlantic hurricane season heats up, storms could send toxic hydrocarbons lingering from the summer's oil spill surging inland, scientists say.
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Using Nuclear Waste for Energy?
Integral Fast Reactor technology would recycle spent nuclear fuel to produce more power, but critics say safety and cost remain obstacles.
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After Katrina, A Solar Restart
Five years after Katrina, projects to rebuild New Orleans showcase solar energy, efficiency.
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Tapping Into the Electric Power of Heat
Converting waste heat into electricity cuts power costs around the world. A new U.S. firm seeks to give the idea a high-tech boost.
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People Go Green (If It's Easy)
Consumers favor “low-effort” actions on energy, rather than investments that could have greater impact, a new survey shows.
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Moon Water Linked to Silver?
The moon's south pole hosts unexpected amounts of silver and mercury, which may help reveal the origins of lunar water.
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Ocean Photo Contest Winners Named
Netted turtles and a finned whale shark feature among the winning frames in a 2010 marine-conservation photo contest.
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Photos: 12 Vanishing Landmarks
A Maya complex, a Haitian palace, and a Swahili town are among the ancient sites being ruined by neglect, a new report says.
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U.S. Tiger Time Bomb
Weak regulations for some 5,000 captive tigers could help fuel the black market, warns the WWF.
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BioBlitz Receives Award
U.S. Department of the Interior prize is for excellence in achievement of natural resource conservation goals and working with others.
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Genetically Modified Proteins Escape Into Streams
Study finds traces in rivers near corn fields in Indiana.
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Gulf Oil Spill News and Pictures
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Did Gulf Spill Boost "Dead Zone"?
Did the BP oil spill sap oxygen from the Gulf of Mexico? Scientists are weighing new findings against years of "dead zone" data.
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Gulf Manta Rays Affected by Oil Spill?
The little-studied Gulf of Mexico's manta rays could be their own species—and victims of the oil spill, scientists say.
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