Jeremy Elton Jacquot
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Have a Comment about the New ESA Rules? Sorry, Not Interested
Sure, the Fish and Wildlife Service is interested in reading your comments about the Bush administration's latest gutting of the Endangered Species Act -- just not that interested. In what will likely come as no surprise to long time readers of this
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Genomics Could Help Create Better Biofuels
I don't know about you, but I often have a hard time keeping track of all the new crops being proposed as potential biofuel feedstocks. While switchgrass has garnered most of the attention in recent months, both here and on
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Do Amphibian Deaths Signal the Coming of a Sixth Mass Extinction?
If the rapidly depleting amphibian populations are any indication, we could be in for another mass extinction. That's the conclusion of a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which finds that humans are worsening
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Long-Term Memory Gives Elephants an Edge Against Climate Change
It turns out there's a lot of truth to that old saying, "Mom knows best". A new study published in Biology Letters hypothesizes that old female elephants' redoubtable memory may have helped them steer their family groups toward food
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Climate Change Will Make North Atlantic Invasion by Pacific Shellfish Possible
A mass migration that began almost 3.5 million years ago is set to resume over the coming years as the Arctic Ocean continues to warm. In a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Science, Geerat Vermeij of UC Davis and
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Cattails and Tules Perform Double Duty as Soil Rebuilders and Carbon Scrubbers
Remember this term: carbon-capture farming. While it may not yet have received much attention, this practice, which would consist of paying delta farmers to plant carbon-sequestering crops, could soon become a big business.
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Google PageRank Could Help Keep Ecosystems Running
As it turns out, Google's search engine is good for more than just looking up your nearest library or favorite local grocery store -- try helping ecosystems run. According to Stefano Allesina of UCSB's National Center for
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Old Ship Logbooks Provide Historical Climate Change Clues
Climate scientists the world over are about to receive a treasure trove of valuable new weather data from an unlikely source: old Royal Navy logbooks. The thousands of logbooks kept by British captains, some dating back to the
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Ventomobile, World's First Wind-Powered Race Car, Ready for Primetime
While electric cars and PHEVs may still be all the rage stateside, a team of German students has already moved on to the next latest and greatest: wind-powered vehicles. That's right: students from Stuttgart University's Team InVentus have built the
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A Picture is Worth... Global Geological Map
The result of a collaboration between 100 organizations spanning over 70 countries, OneGeology marks the first international effort to strip the Earth to its core to unveil its underlying geological features. The series of maps
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Stephen Colbert Interviews Brendan Koerner, Slate's Green Lantern
Everyone's favorite faux conservative, climate change nay-saying pundit, Stephen Colbert, interviewed Slate's Brendan I. Koerner, author of the long-running "Ask the Green Lantern" column this past Thursday. Stephen quizzed Koerner on a range of topics
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Ocean Acidification: 100 Years in the Future
A study published in an upcoming issue of the journal Current Biology paints a grim picture of the future impact of ocean acidification on marine organisms, reports ENN's Angelique van Engelen. While the study doesn't contribute
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New Electrode Design Could Make "Much Cheaper" Fuel Cell Possible
In related hydrogen breakthrough news, a team of scientists from Melbourne's Monash University has developed a new fuel cell prototype that could pave the way for a generation of much cheaper, more efficient fuel-cell vehicles. The results of their
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Ethanol Produced from Perennial Grass Could Offset 20% of Gas Use with 9.3% of Cropland
For all the talk of switchgrass being the next miracle biofuel feedstock, there's still precious little to show for it. Yes, we did recently report on a study which showed that switchgrass could potentially yield 5 times more energy than was used to
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Researchers Develop Chlorine-Tolerant Membrane for Easy Desalination
Record droughts, falling water tables and the rapid depletion of aquifers have helped make desalination, a process once considered impractical and too expensive, a viable technology -- at least in some places. As such, there has been a rash of stories --
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UGA Develops Fast, Eco-Friendly Biomass Treatment to Greatly Increase Biofuel Yield
Not another day goes by that we don't hear about the latest new-fangled or revolutionary biofuel breakthrough. It used to be that those discoveries didn't mean much, practically speaking, as there weren't yet many firm plans laid out to build
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EPA Tells Staff to Keep Quiet, Play Dumb with Regulators, Press
Accountability? What's that?
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Cities of the Future, the Coming End of the Car Age and Suburbia's Demise: James Kunstler Talks
I don't know about you, but I can never get enough of TreeHugger's favorite eco-crank: the one and only James Howard Kunstler. Whether it's listening to his provocative podcast, appropriately titled "KunstlerCast," or reading his latest op-ed/essay/book,
