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Former VP Al Gore tackles pollution
Photo by Corey Wheeler / The South End Former Vice President Al Gore focused on the Great Lakes over global climate issues and the continual fight to eliminate pollution during the Oct.
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Column: A parched and thirsty future
Leading water conservationist, Amy Vickers put it rather succinctly: “America’s biggest drinking problem isn’t alcohol, it’s lawn watering.” Rare, yet essential to life, fresh water is the precious elixir we take for granted.
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Researchers’ modification of switchgrass may pave way to more efficient biofuel energy
Research centered around a small, fast-growing type of grass may be leading the way to a more efficient and high-yield source of energy. In a report published Oct. 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.
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Study looks into benefits of reflective roofs
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are investigating how reflective roofs can save on electric bills and send solar radiation back into space.
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Column: Government is a crappy venture capitalist
Solyndra deserves more credit than the media is giving it. But not much. Any discussion of the Obama administration’s ill-fated decision to loan more than half a billion dollars to Solyndra, the now-bankrupt solar cell manufacturer, needs to begin with the obvious: the prospects for so...
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Cornell researchers explore smart grid technology
In an effort to combat energy waste nationwide, the National Science Foundation gave a team of four Cornell U. faculty members a four-year, $1.9 million grant to research how to improve energy allocation through a “smart” electrical grid.
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New pesticide could save billions of dollars
A new pesticide could potentially save the agricultural business billions of dollars annually by killing crop-eating pests, said David Denlinger, the lead researcher in the study at Ohio State U.
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Editorial: Obama administration abandons yet another campaign promise
In 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama pledged to install the first-ever pollution limits on smog, widely regarded as a contributor to global warming and health risks.
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Professors say XL Pipeline may stall U.S. job creation
The creation of the Keystone XL Pipeline may kill more United States jobs than it creates, according to a recent publication from Cornell U’s Global Labor Institute.
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