By CORNELIA DEAN : In 1945, when Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, Mikhail M. Kozhov began keeping track of what was happening under the surface of Lake Baikal, the ancient Siberian lake that is the deepest and largest body of fresh water on earth.
Every week to 10 days, by boat in summer and over the […]
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by admin
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By KENNETH CHANG
Contrary to expectations, a microscopic plant that lives in oceans around the world may thrive in the changing ocean conditions of the coming decades, a team of scientists reported Thursday.
The main threat to many marine organisms is not global warming but ocean acidification, as carbon dioxide from the air dissolves into the water […]
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by admin
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By MATTHEW L. WALD
Solar power, the holy grail of renewable energy, has always faced the problem of how to store the energy captured from the sun’s rays so that demand for electricity can be met at night or whenever the sun is not shining.
The difficulty is that electricity is hard to store. Batteries are not […]
Posted on April 16th, 2008 by admin
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Environment By KIRSTY SUCATO : OCEAN TOWNSHIP
WHEN Maryann Keseday lifts the lid off her kitchen garbage can, she often suffers a pang of guilt.
A freelance court reporter and mother of two, she tosses junk mail, cereal boxes, kitchen scraps, batteries and magazines into the trash. She figures she should probably recycle these things, she says, […]
Posted on March 16th, 2008 by admin
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By ANDREW C. REVKIN : Illegal loggers have chopped their way deep into unique forest reserves in a mountain range in central Mexico where millions of monarch butterflies from eastern North America roost for the winter, according to researchers who posted satellite photographs of the area on a NASA Web site Wednesday evening.
Forests of […]
Posted on March 8th, 2008 by admin
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By ANDREW C. REVKIN
In 1980, after college, I joined the crew of a sailboat partway through a circumnavigation of the globe. Becalmed and roasting one day during a 21-day crossing of the western Indian Ocean, several of us dived over the side. Within a few swimming strokes, the bobbing hull seemed a toy over my […]
Posted on February 26th, 2008 by admin
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