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reuters
The costs of making electricity with solar power within a decade will reach parity with power made with fossil fuels like natural gas and coal, a study announced on Tuesday by supporters of renewable and solar energy says.
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The statement says solar power can make 10 percent of U.S. power generation by 2025, or about 255,000 [...]

BBC
A new generation of medical treatments could be lost forever unless the current rate of biodiversity loss is reversed, conservationists have warned.
They say species are being lost before researchers have had the chance to examine and understand their potential health benefits.
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“While extinction is alarming in its own right, the book demonstrates that many species can [...]

bizjournals.com
A recent study shows consumers are ready to go green but aren’t finding what they want in the market.
The 2007 National Technology Readiness Survey sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Service at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and technology research firm Rockbridge Associates Inc. found that there was a [...]

Drinkpee
drinkpeedrinkpeedrinkpee is a project about the role our bodies play in larger ecosystems.
The project includes an installation and a diy kit for turning your pee [...]

Independent
Britain is to build the world’s biggest butterfly house as a giant visitor attraction with a giant conservation message: stop butterflies disappearing.
Butterfly World, which will have 10,000 butterflies at a time fluttering under its 300ft-wide, walk-through dome, is being built just off the M25, near St Albans, Hertfordshire. The £25m project was launched [...]

BBC
Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice.
Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.
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Summer melting this year reduced the ice cover to 4.13 million sq km, the smallest ever extent in [...]

AP
Just a few years ago, the lush coral reefs off Bali island were dying out, bleached by rising temperatures, blasted by dynamite fishing and poisoned by cyanide. Now they are coming back, thanks to an unlikely remedy: electricity.
The coral is thriving on dozens of metal structures submerged in the bay and fed by cables that [...]

MSNBC
A new battery that can be recharged to 90 percent capacity in under five minutes and lasts 10 years will start shipping in March, Toshiba Corp. announced this week, hailing it as “a new energy solution” for cleaner transportation.
Toshiba plans to initially make the quick-charging Super Charge ion Battery for electric bikes, forklifts, construction machinery [...]

livescience
Look at the newest “green” building in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, and you won’t see solar panels, so you might be forgiven for not recognizing it as an environmentally friendly structure.
Instead, smart planning and design—and some smart technology—make the new building at the University System of Maryland’s Shady Grove campus in Rockville an energy-efficient, green [...]

AP
Since President Bush slipped the seldom-heard term “switchgrass” into his 2006 State of the Union Address, the prairie grass has been in vogue.
Because it’s a perennial crop, it needs less fertilizer, recycling nutrients at the end of every season. It also puts down a deep root system, which helps it combat soil erosion, and adds [...]