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- Britain sees first coal-free day since the Industrial Revolution Mon, 24 Apr 17, 9:45pmFor the first time since Thomas Edison opened the first power station in London in 1882, Great Britain functioned without any coal-fired power plants last Friday...
- New Cooker Reduces Smoke by 80% and Safeguards Himalayan Glaciers Thu, 26 Sep 13, 10:00pmBlack smoke from cooking stoves used in many developing countries is not only a serious health hazard that disproportionately affects women, it is also a major contributor to the increasing temperature of the atmosphere,...
- MakerBot 3D Desktop Printers to Be Sold in Microsoft Retail Stores Across the US Fri, 9 Aug 13, 5:00amMakerBot just announced plans to begin selling their Replicator 2 desktop model in Microsoft retail stores across the United States. The move makes Microsoft the first entity to sell the machines on a shop floor outside of...
- UN Envoys Advised to Develop a Plan B For Failure to Meet Global CO2 Targets Tue, 4 Jun 13, 2:30amPhoto via Shutterstock In an effort to curb global climate change, policy makers and scientists agreed in 2010 that the total levels of CO2 emissions should not exceed 350 parts per million...
- Study says global warming caused by CFCs interacting with cosmic rays, not carbon dioxide Fri, 31 May 13, 2:29amFrom the University of Waterloo, an extraordinary claim. While plausible, due to the fact that CFC’s have very high GWP numbers, their atmospheric concentrations compared to CO2 are quite low, and the radiative forcings...
- Average Global Temperatures Poised to Soar Past 11,000-Year High Sat, 9 Mar 13, 8:20amImage by Airs Science Team, NASA/JPL Is it getting hot in here? Absolutely. Don’t let the recent snowfall fool you: 2012 was the hottest year on record for the U.S. and the future isn’t looking much cooler. Recently...
- Enormous Beehive Made of Recycled Plastic Bags Dangles at Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art Thu, 21 Feb 13, 3:15amIn the 16th century, Italy produced Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, but now many of the world’s art museums are filled with trash. Not any old trash, mind you. Pascale Marthine Tayou’s latest installation...
- Enormous Beehive of Plastic Bags Dangles at Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art Thu, 21 Feb 13, 1:07amIt is sometimes hard to reconcile the changes our society has undergone since the industrial revolution. In the 16th century, Italy produced Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, but now so many of our art museums are filled...
- Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal is a Unique Art Venue in an Industrial Revolution-Era Botanical Garden Sat, 25 Aug 12, 12:32amRead the rest of Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal is a Unique Art Venue in an Industrial Revolution-Era Botanical Garden Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "botanical garden", adaptive reuse, avant...
- Dinosaur Farts May Have Caused Prehistoric Global Warming Tue, 8 May 12, 1:40amWe know that today’s cows are responsible for producing staggering amounts of heat-trapping methane gas, a major driver of climate change, but British scientists now claim that dinosaurs with vegetarian diets may have...
- They shrink horses, don’t they? Fri, 24 Feb 12, 11:45amFrom the University of Nebraska-Lincoln . Tom Nelson quipped earlier today that he hadn’t noticed any pygmy horses near the equator where it is warmer. Study: Evolution of earliest horses driven by climate change New...