Environment
Airborne particles smuggle pollutants to far reaches of globe
21 Nov 2012
Pollution from fossil fuel burning and forest fires reaches all the way to the Arctic, even though it should decay long before it travels that far
Smartphones and high-tech laboratories to reveal health effects of environmental pollutants
19 Nov 2012
Argentine court orders seizure of Chevron’s assets to enforce $19-bn Ecuadoran ruling
08 Nov 2012
An Argentine court has ordered to seize US oil giant Chevron Corp's assets in the country in order to carry out an Ecuadorean court ruling that awarded $19 billion to plaintiffs in an environmental damage lawsuit in the Amazon
Earth sunblock only needed if planet warms easily
By By Mary Beckman, PNNL | 31 Oct 2012
Study into sea level rise due to fossil fuels
30 Oct 2012
New understanding of Antarctica’s weight-loss
30 Oct 2012
Greenland run-off rates accelerating
26 Oct 2012
Newsweek ranks Citi as greenest US bank
25 Oct 2012
Did the Little Ice Age start with a big bang?
20 Oct 2012
Researchers use solar power to study wild elephants in Africa
By By Mark Shwartz | 19 Oct 2012
Ice-sheet retreat controlled by the landscape
17 Oct 2012
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