Will Tesla’s tiles finally give solar shingles their day in the sun?
Elon Musk has built a formidable personal brand on futuristic visions of driverless cars and space travel. But the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Tesla...
Bigger isn't better for energy savings.
The desire for more spacious cars and houses is cancelling out energy savings made by environmentally friendly improvements to heating and transport.
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How boring old pension funds might curb global warming.
If civilization still exists a century from now, Earth ought to throw a parade for pension funds. For all their fiscally conservative stodginess, the people...
Two female scientists and a militant environmentalist join Emmanuel Macron’s new government.
Molecular geneticist and university administrator Frédérique Vidal is France’s new minister for higher education, research, and innovation.
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Kamchatkan volcanic ash travels half the world
Geochemical fingerprinting links microscopic ash found on the bottom of a Svalbard lake to volcanic event happening 7,000 years ago and 5,000 km away.
Environmental pollutants in large Norwegian lakes
Scientists have discovered the presence of contaminants in the pelagic food chains in the lakes Mjøsa, Randsfjorden and Femunden in Norway, and in supplementary material...
Fueling the future
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A simpler route to biodiesel from used coffee grounds.
The world produces almost 10 million tons of waste coffee grounds every year. Researchers have now discovered an efficient way to turn that waste...
Sea level as a metronome of Earth’s history
Sedimentary layers contain stratigraphic cycles and patterns that precisely reveal the succession of climatic and tectonic conditions that have occurred over millennia. Researchers have...
Iron deficiency restrains marine microbes
Iron is a critical nutrient in the ocean. Its importance for algae and the nitrogen cycle has already been investigated in detail. Now a...
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