Through the agreement, the companies hope to study real-life vehicle range and any issues that might arise in a hard-use fleet environment. The new arrangement would place quick chargers at some Best Buy stores, but Rick Rommel, Best Buy’s Senior VP, said that details about how they would provide charger availability haven’t yet been worked out.
Taking advantage of ink\'s natural tendency to create \"coffee rings,\" a group of Israeli scientists has developed a type of ink jet dye that could one day create a range of power-hungry, and power-producing, devices at home.
The biggest climate meeting in history, with 15,000 participants from 192 nations, begins in Copenhagen on Monday seeking to agree curbs on greenhouse gas emissions and raise billions of...
The land still smolders, tinted with a depressing gray. Twisted hulks of tree trunks take on abnormal shapes. A dark black canal cuts through the wasted landscape.
Remarkable footage has been captured of falling Alsomitra vine seeds, which use paper-thin wings to disperse like giant gliders.\\r\\rThe seeds, which are produced by a football-sized pod, can glide hundreds of metres across the forest.
Why the climatologists get it wrong. Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed \"the coming ice age.\" Random House dutifully printed \"THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age.\" This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short sled ride from Washington, D.C.
Britain\'s Met Office national weather service said Saturday it would publish data from weather stations worldwide and had \"every confidence\" it would show temperatures had risen in the last 150 years.
As wild fish stocks continue to dwindle, aquaculture is becoming an increasingly important source of protein worldwide. Now, a growing number of entrepreneurs are raising fish in large pens in the open ocean, hoping to avoid the many environmental problems of coastal fish farms.
Just off the Farallon Islands in Northern California, a group of whale watchers watch an Orca prey upon a great white shark. It was always thought that the great white shark had no predators. This was a surprise for everyone to see.
The beauty of this process -- if \"beauty\" is how you\'d want to describe such a thing -- is that the resulting fluids can be sent into the sewer system like Saturday night\'s bath water, or even spread on fields or gardens. No sooty emissions, either, and the process uses 80 percent less energy than standard cremation.\\r
Economists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found no conclusive evidence of any widespread property value impacts in communities surrounding wind energy facilities.
Internet search giant Google--along with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger--has unveiled a version of Google Earth that predicts both sea level changes and wild fire danger caused by global warming
Antiscience | I think a followup on my earlier post on the climatologists\' emails is called for.The comments in that post have been interesting. Most of them -- and there are
Hundreds of people marched through Bhopal with torches before dawn Thursday to mark the 25th anniversary of the world\'s worst industrial disaster and demand the cleanup of toxic chemicals they say still contaminate the Indian city\'s soil and water.
While the latest toy tests for HealthyStuff.org show some kid\'s products contain high levels of lead and other toxins, they also show the number of toxic toys being discovered has steadily declined over the years. Notable exceptions include \"Green Baby\" infant shirt, containing elevated levels of Lead and Chlorine.