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While sidewalks crackle in the summer heat, NASA scientists are keeping a close eye on the sun. It is almost spotless, a sign that the Sun may have reached solar minimum. Scientists are now watching for the first spot of the new solar cycle to appear.
The 11 year long solar cycle is marked by two [...]

I have read through multiple threads in which the question arises, which is better, a gasoline powered engine or an electrically, coal powered engine. I ran some pretty rough numbers and was surprised to find that coal produces four times the CO2 as a gasoline powered car. I was expecting it to be the other [...]

Are eco-friendly hard drives the next big thing for computer companies? Are they trying to save the environment, cash in on the growing buzz around eco-sensitivity or a little of both? While the jury remains out on that Western Digital, one of the most well known hard drive companies, has joined Kanguru in marketing a [...]

Border beaches around Imperial Beach were closed 198 days last year due to sewage contamination from our amigos just south of the border. Sewage flows from the Tijuana River and new sources of pollution all along the Baja coast have been major causes of the beach pollution crisis for years.
WiLDCOAST has teamed up with Mitch [...]

10: Sinclair C5
Top Speed: 15mph
Range: 20 miles
Weight: 45kg
Cost: £399
Released in 1985 in the UK the C5 could be driven by anybody over the age of 14, even without a driving license. Less than 17,000 C5s were sold and Sinclair Vehicles went into receivership later that year. The C5 was dangerous to use on the road, [...]

Here’s Environmental Graffiti’s list of the five most influential environmental movers and shakers.

5. James Hansen runs NASAs Institute for Space Science and is Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia. Since the 1980s he has consistently been testifying to Congress about the dangers of climate change. His pronouncements, on amongst other things the [...]

A medical report from the French hospital where Yasir Arafat passed away in 2004 reveals tjat the late Palestinian leader actually died of AIDS, ending years of speculation that the cause of death was assasination.
According to the Jewish Press, Ahmed Jibril, the Damascus-based chief of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said in [...]

The huge loggerhead turtle follows the diver around the reef in Ft. Lauderdale and all the way to the surface.

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Antibiotics were injected Saturday into two wayward humpback whales stranded for two weeks in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Rio Vista. The drugs were administered to stave off infection from wounds that are getting worse in fresh water. It’s the first time they’ve been used for whales in the wild.Marine biologists and veterinarians from [...]

EDGEWATER, Md. (AP) - Scientists tracking progress of an invasive crab in the Chesapeake Bay say a third Chinese mitten crab was caught Friday.
Two watermen checking crab pots in southern Maryland discovered one of the crabs, which burrow in tributary banks and may compete with native blue crabs for food.
Gregory M. Ruiz, senior scientist at [...]