"Nanotechnology: Armed Resistance"
"Nature assesses the aftermath of a series of nanotechnology-lab bombings in Mexico -- and asks how the country became a target of eco-anarchists."
Source: Nature News, 08/31/2012
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China Plunges Into Carbon Capture Tech for Emissions Cuts and Exports
"ERDOS, China -- Shenhua Group Corp., one of China's coal giants, has built much of its success at the cost of climate change. Every year, the company digs hundreds of million of tons of coal out of the ground and sells this carbon-intensive energy source throughout China."
Source: ClimateWire, 08/29/2012
"Year After Irene, New Yorkers Ponder Sea Barriers"
"NEW YORK -- Two years before Hurricane Irene created the prospect of a flooding nightmare in New York City, 100 scientists and engineers met to sketch out a bold defense: massive, moveable barriers to shield the city from a storm-stirred sea."
Source: AP, 08/24/2012
Will Security Lapse Bring Another EPA Data Blackout?
More than a decade ago, on February 17, 2000, the entire EPA website was taken down for two weeks because of data security concerns raised by the House Energy Committee. There are faint hints that such events may be in the offing again.
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Database on Environmental Treaties an Aid for Reporters on Environmental Stories
There are well over a thousand binational or multinational environmental agreements, usually technical and obscure. However, environmental reporters would do well to know about them — to shed light on local stories and to find national or international news. Here's help.
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"Bill Gates Crowns Toilet Innovators At Sanitation Fair"
"This week, Bill Gates was at a summer fair in Washington State, but he was not eating deep-fried butter on-a-stick, or checking out livestock. Gates was inspecting cutting-edge toilet technology on display at an event his foundation hosted in Seattle — the Reinvent the Toilet Fair."
Source: NPR, 08/16/2012
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