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Environment

Cheese Can Now Power A Town — In France, Of Course

In a large snow-white globe on the edge of town, bacteria bred in whey, the liquid that remains after milk has been curdled and strained to make cheese, are hard at work ge...

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Sustainable Development

Design Advance Could Mean Commercial Light-Based Processors Within A Few Years

A team of engineers from MIT, UC Berkeley, and the University of Colorado have overcome a major barrier to light-based computers, offering a means to move beyond the increa...

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Sustainable Development

Stanford Physicists Set A New Record For Quantum Entangling Distant Electrons

Computer hardware is almost always realized via electrons, e.g. good old fashioned electricity. Apply some voltage to a conductive material and now we're scooting around el...

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Environment

India Unveils Climate Change Plan

India, the world?s third biggest greenhouse gas emitter, has pledged to source 40% of its electricity from renewable and other low-carbon sources by 2030. It is the last ma...

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Health

Why Young Women All Over The World Are Still Dying In Childbirth

By the time the pregnant 17 years old arrives at a hospital in Sierra Leone, it is already too late. Her baby has died—maybe the day before, maybe even longer. She ha...

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Environment

How Obama’s Getting Americans To Care About Climate Change

BARACK OBAMA HAS a way with words?for which he?s been both vilified (all talk!) and adored (so inspiring!). Hate or love, nobody can deny he?s good at communicating. Case i...

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Health

How Obama?? Getting Americans To Care About Climate Change

BARACK OBAMA HAS a way with words??or which he?? been both vilified (all talk!) and adored (so inspiring!). Hate or love, nobody can deny he?? good at communicating. Case i...

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Environment

White House Set To Adopt Sweeping Curbs On Carbon Pollution

The Obama administration will formally adopt an ambitious regulation for cutting greenhouse-gas pollution on Monday, requiring every state to reduce emissions from coal-bur...

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Environment

Here?s The Most Lucrative Way To Fight Climate Change

A new report outlines how to grow the economy and stymie climate change at the same time Economists, politicians and scientists have long debated how (and whether) climate ...

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Environment

Africa’s Low-Carbon Revolution

Imagine you woke up tomorrow without access to modern energy. You have no refrigerator, cooking stove, or air conditioning. Your kids cannot do homework after sundown. You ...

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