science

By Laurent Huber | – GENEVA (IPS) – February 27 will mark the 10th anniversary of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first global public health treaty. Today the FCTC has 180 Parties, making it among the most widely-adopted international instruments. About 90 percent of the world’s population falls under […]

Climate Change

iSolar! Apple putting nearly $1 Bn into Solar Farm to Power Corporate Campus

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Bloomberg Business | — “Apple is embracing renewable energy with an $848 million commitment to obtain electricity from a solar farm that’s big enough to power its offices in California, along with 52 retail stores and a data center. Bloomberg’s Michael di Capua and Bloomberg Businessweek’s Brad Stone speak on “Bloomberg West.”” Bloomberg Business: “Apple […]

Republican Party

Bad News for US Biotech: GOP’s Scott Walker so anti-science he can’t affirm Evolution

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Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) – “Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks gives his final judgment on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s recent comments on evolution. Cenk finds it hard to believe that a leading candidate for the 2016 Presidential nomination can’t go on the record on evolution.” The Young Turks: “Final Judgement: Scott […]

Energy

Can Plants teach us how to make Better Solar Panels?

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CCTV America | — “Even with the robust sales, solar panels aren’t terribly efficient, converting only about 10-15 percent of the sun’s rays into useable and storable energy. A group of scientists are hoping to improve that and they are inspired by nature. CCTV America’s Jessica Stone reported this story from Albany, New York.” CCTV: […]

Education

Inside the green schools revolution

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How can we design better, ‘living’ classrooms, places that will not only improve the lives of teachers and students, but also have less of an impact on the environment? Bryn Nelson goes back to school to find out.

astronomy and outer space

Nature’s Fireworks: The Northern Lights in Troms, Norway

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Euronews | — No Comment TV: “Magnetic midnight in Norway – no comment”

Climate Change

“Even a 10 percent loss of Antarctica’s ice would cause catastrophic flooding of coastal cities”

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NOVA | (PBS) — “Almost three miles of ice buries most of Antarctica, cloaking a continent half again as large as the United States. But when an Antarctic ice shelf the size of Manhattan collapsed in less than a month in 2002, it shocked scientists and raised the alarming possibility that Antarctica may be headed […]

astronomy and outer space

How human-emitted Carbon Dioxide Circulates in Earth’s Atmosphere (NASA)

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NASA Goddard | — “An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe. Plumes of carbon dioxide in the simulation swirl and shift as winds disperse the greenhouse gas away from its sources. The simulation also illustrates differences in carbon dioxide […]

Climate Change

How German TV covers climate change: interviews scientist respectfully, disses denialist Politicians

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DW | — “We are joined by Martin Cames who heads the Energy and Climate Division at the Institute for Applied Ecology in Berlin. He talks about the new synthesis report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It says climate change is set to inflict “severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts” on people […]