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Brian Nitz
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Why Earth Hour Still Matters
March 23 at 8:30 PM marks Earth Hour. Will you switch off? Writing for Slate magazine, Bjorn Lomborg argues against what he believes to be...
Japan Mines Seabed “Fire Ice” – The World’s Most Dangerous Source of Energy?
Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, a Japanese state-owned prospecting company says it has successfully extracted methane gas from an undersea methane hydrate deposit...
Red Tide Blooms Threaten Gulf of Oman, Shut Down Kalba Desalinization Plants
Is red tide a man-made pollutant or a natural phenomenon? Is it a plant, animal or chemical? The answer is all of the above. The...
Energy Storage Super Capacitors Bottle Energy in New Breakthrough
UCLA and Egyptian scientist accidentally find a new way to bottle stored energy. This missing link for solar energy, hydro and electric cars could be...
NASA Watches Underground Fresh Water Sea Vanish from the Middle East (VIDEO)
Sound the alarms? Where has Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq’s underground freshwater sea gone? NASA’s imaging technology recently brought some bad news about Mideast air...
Chaim Weizmann’s Fermentation Invention Used for Biofuel Production in USA
In 1914, thirty-five years before Chaim Weizmann would become Israel's first president, he discovered a fermentation process for harnessing bacteria to produce large quantities of useful...
Dung beetles navigate by the stars
This is the first time celestial navigation has been seen in insects but the scientists believe it is common.
Giant Squid Kraken Sea Monster Caught on Video
The journal Nature reports that a team of ocean researchers have captured the world’s first video of a giant squid (Architeuthis dux) in its natural...
Floods, Climate Change and the Garden of Eden?
Are Jordan’s snow and Israel’s floods signs of climate change or are they simply flukes of weather? People might argue this for decades there is...
Fight Crime By Getting the Lead Out
Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea, Myanmar and Yemen are still using leaded gasoline and many others have lead contaminated plumbing, soil, paint and household products. How...
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