01/07/2009
Green revolution: still possible amid deep recession? (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
In 2008, oil prices spiked then collapsed, climate-change talks stuttered, and nuclear power reemerged.
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01/06/2009
Big Warm Up Heading Our Way (CBS 11 Dallas - Fort Worth)
Monday's below freezing temperatures and ice caused lots of power outages throughout the day. As of 8 a.m. Tuesday, about 8,000 customers remained without power.
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01/06/2009
Harnessing space energy (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
MOSCOW. (Yury Zaitsev, for RIA Novosti) - European Union leaders agreed during the Brussels summit on global warming to cut 1990 levels of carbon dioxide emissions 20% by 2020.
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01/04/2009
The Mars Rovers' Long and Fruitful Journeys (Time Magazine)
NASA's rovers landed on Mars in 2004, with a life expectancy of 90 days. Five years on, they're still working, having amassed more data on the Red Planet than any other spacecraft
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01/04/2009
NASA Cassini Significant Events 12/17/08 - 12/22/08 (SpaceRef)
The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired on Dec. 22 from the Deep Space Network tracking complexes at Goldstone, California, and Canberra, Australia. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and all subsystems are operating normally
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01/04/2009
Weather wonders: 'Whiteout' = meteorological term with two meanings (High Plains Journal)
One of the terms that High Plains residents do not like to hear during winter is "whiteout," but the term can mean different things to different people.
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01/03/2009
Tribal ministry wants say in climate change forums (The Times of India)
The tribal affairs minister has ended up questioning the govt's stand on acknowledging the rights of ‘indigenous people' in international forums.
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01/01/2009
Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979 (AnandTech)
Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at levels seen 29 years ago....
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12/31/2008
Bacteria In Ice May Record Climate Change (Science Daily)
To many people, bacteria and climate change are like chalk and cheese: the smallest creature versus one of the biggest phenomena on earth. Not really. Scientists with the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences and coworkers recently reported that small bugs deposited in ice and snow might tell how our climate has been changing.
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12/30/2008
Amazing Mars: Discoveries in 2008 (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
Humans have pondered the mysteries of Mars for thousands of years, with one question eliciting particular interest: Is there life up there?
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