• U.S. Announces Higher Fuel Economy and Lower Carbon Emission Standards for 2017-2025 Passenger Cars and Trucks

    Updated: 2011-07-31 05:00:05
    Yesterday, U.S. President Obama announced a new agreement with automakers and a broad coalition of stakeholders to dramatically increase fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gas pollution for all 2017-2025 new cars and trucks sold in the United States. The new standards call for annual, incremental improvements in fuel efficiency to achieve a 2025 target of 54.5 [...]

  • Friday Night at the Movies | India’s Chilika Lagoon Thrives Once Again

    Updated: 2011-07-29 20:33:57
    Located on the east coast of India, Chilika Lake is a brackish water lagoon, fed by dozens of river channels and flowing into the Bay of Bengal. It is the largest coastal lagoon in India and the second largest in the world, with evidence of human habitation stretching back to 2300 BCE. The vitality of Chilika [...]

  • A Glimmer of Hope Among Famine Refugees on the Kenya-Somali Border

    Updated: 2011-07-27 01:46:39
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  • Body Weight and Position on Food Chain Determine How Common Species are in an Ecosystem

    Updated: 2011-07-26 12:59:29
    Scientists quantify the abundance and diversity of fishes at Carpinteria Salt Marsh in California. Credit: Ryan Hechinger All animal species — from birds to fishes, crabs to snails to worms, and the parasitic animals that live inside or on them – seem to follow one simple rule for how common each will be in an ecosystem. “You [...]

  • End of an Era

    Updated: 2011-07-21 01:18:48
    5:57 a.m. EDT: Space shuttle Atlantis makes a pre-dawn landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center after completing 200 Earth orbits, and ending the program’s 135th and final flight. Photo: NASA/Kim Shiflett

  • Taking the Shoe-Leather Express: America’s Most Walkable Cities

    Updated: 2011-07-20 14:38:17
    New York City’s famed Times Square, pedestrianized. With the average American driver spending nearly an hour a day behind the wheel, and up to 25 percent of income on transportation, the appeal of living and working in a walkable city is on the rise. Which U.S. cities are the most walkable? According to Walk Score, which rates [...]

  • Welsh Universities Lead in Climate Change Research and Innovation

    Updated: 2011-07-14 15:41:54
    This week the Welsh Government held a climate change and sustainability exhibition hosted by Professor Noel Lloyd, Chair of Higher Education Wales and John Griffiths AM, Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development. The exhibition showcased the work of Wales’ leading university research teams in issues relating to climate change, sustainability and associated technology. Projects from [...]

  • EFRA Committee Announce Natural Environment White Paper inquiry

    Updated: 2011-07-14 10:56:04
    From the EFRA Committee: MPs to examine Government proposals to protect and enhance the natural environment Proposals set out in the Government’s Natural Environment White Paper, The Natural Choice; securing the value of nature, published on 7 June, will be the focus of a new inquiry by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. Launching [...]

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