History of Oil Prices

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"oil prices and the economic and political events that shaped the price: wars, domestic policy, embargoes and price control"

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New Technology Turns Food Leftovers Into Electricity, Vehicle Fuels

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"Starting today, tons of table scraps from the Bay Area's finest restaurants will be turned into clean, renewable energy at a new UC Davis research and technology demonstration facility."

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Lightning Volcano

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"A lighning storm illuminated clouds in such a way as to make it look almost likea volcanic eruption. Moonlight helped capture the motion of the clouds duringthe time exposure to accentuate the look, Monument Peak, Payson, Arizona"

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Home Depot Selling Solar Power to Mainstream America

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"The Home Depot has teamed up with BP Solar to provide solar installation service to customers. It is offering its customers the ability to sign-up online for free, in-home consultations."

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Group Congo Park Hippos Face Extinction

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"The last remaining hippos in eastern Congo face extinction and could be wiped out in many parts of a national park by the end of the year due to intense poaching by militiamen, conservationists said Saturday."

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Vt Island Features Oldest Coral Reef

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"To the uninitiated, the flat rock slabs found across the center of this island at the northern end of Lake Champlain appear to be nothing more than giant stones."

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Loss of species that pollinate is cause for global alarm, researchers say

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"Birds, bees, bats and other species that pollinate North American plant life are losing population, according to a study released Wednesday by the National Research Council. This "demonstrably downward" trend could damage dozens of commercially important crops, scientists warned, because three-fourths of all flowering plants depend on pollinators."

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Despite popular belief, the world is not running out of oil

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"If you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other mineral resources, you've been taken in by the foremost of seven myths about resource geology, according to a University of Washington economic geologist."

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UN: Ocean 'dead zones' increasing fast

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"The number of ?dead zones? in the world?s oceans may have increased by a third in just two years, threatening fish stocks and the people who depend on them. Fertilizers, sewage, fossil fuel burning and other pollutants have led to a doubling in the number of oxygen-deficient coastal areas every decade since the 1960s."

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How Close Is Runaway Climate Change?

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"Runaway climate change is a theory of how things might go badly wrong for the planet if a relatively small warming of the earth upsets the normal checks and balances that keep the climate in equilibrium. Scientists estimate that when the temperature reaches an extra 2?C above that equilibrium the earth's natural systems will be in serious trouble."

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LA Community College Going Off the Grid

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"Los Angeles Community College announces at Solar Power 2006 that it will install solar panel arrays at each of its nine campuses that are big enough to take the college "off the grid." Excess power will be used to electrolyze water to run hydrogen fuel cells for nighttime electricity."

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Cleaner Diesel Engines Coming to the U.S., To Match Cleaner Fuel

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"The U.S.'s new low-sulfur fuel comes just in time for the delivery of Mercedes' diesel E320 sedan next week in 45 states; the company plans on releasing diesel cars that meet all states' standards by 2008. And Honda is preparing to enter the 50-state market in 2009, with its own innovative cleaner diesel engine. Others will follow."

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Solar alchemy turns fumes back into fuels

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"IT IS the biggest contributor to climate change. Now chemists are hoping to convert carbon dioxide into a useful fuel, with a little help from the sun."

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Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel officially arrives today

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"The new fuel - which represents a 97% reduction in sulfur content from previous diesel fuel - is now available at fueling stations nationwide. This environmental revolution means cleaner air for all Americans and paves the way for introduction of the rest of the clean diesel system."

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Science Ignored, Again

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"Stephen Johnson, the administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, should pay more attention to the scientists in his own agency and less to the political strategists in the White House."

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Alaskan Lakes Dry Up

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"More than 10,000 Alaskan lakes have dried up or shrunk in size in a span of 52 years, scientists reported today. Between 1950 and 2002, Alaska experienced longer growing seasons, increased thawing of permafrost, and greater water loss from evaporation of open waters."

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Wasps released in La to combat bugs

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"Louisiana horticulturists tied a small cylindrical vial containing hundreds of gnat-sized wasps to a hibiscus plant on a well-groomed lawn Wednesday, and removed the cap."

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Imagine Earth without people

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"Imagine that all the people on Earth - all 6.5 billion of us and counting - could be spirited away tomorrow, transported to a re-education camp in a far-off galaxy. (Let's not invoke the mother of all plagues to wipe us out, if only to avoid complications from all the corpses). Left once more to its own devices, Nature would reclaim the planet"

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If humans disappeared from the earth today - what would happen? (pic)

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"A timeline of how the earth would be affected if humans suddenly disappeared. Eerily detailed, it's scary because the effects sound kind of good - until you realize we'd all be dead."

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Jelly (as in Jello) sparks toxic waste alert

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"A pile of jelly (as in Jello) left by a road in Germany caused a major security alert after it was mistaken for toxic waste."

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Earth's ecological debt crisis: 'Borrowing' from nature hits new record

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"Scientific evidence is mounting that rapid population growth and rising living standards among the Earth's six billion inhabitants are putting an intolerable strain on nature."

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Choosing the Right Trees Can Affect Air Quality

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"Cities can improve their air quality simply by planting the right mix of trees for their climate, according to a study by researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry"

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Mount Everest Becoming a Junkyard

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"It has been described as the highest junkyard in the world. Covered in discarded mountaineering detritus and suffering under thousands of tourists' boots every year, environmental groups are to launch a push for a radical solution - the temporary closure of the world's highest mountain."

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One third of the planet will be desert by the year 2100

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"Drought threatening the lives of millions will spread across half the land surface of the Earth in the coming century because of global warming, according to new predictions from Britain's leading climate scientists. Extreme drought, in which agriculture is in effect impossible, will affect about a third of the planet, according to the study"

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A map of the tracks of all tropical cyclones worldwide from 1985 to 2005

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"That's one of the most fascinating visual representations of cyclones I've ever seen. This picture is the Wikipedia picture of the day. That link shows the color scale used, which corresponds to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale."

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