Earth Stories for 2008

Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? 877
Evolution of Intelligence More Complex Than Once Thought 453
Leap Second To Be Added Dec 31, 2008 255
Study Abroad For Computer Science Majors? 386
White Christmas In Antarctica 84
Space Is Just a Little Bit Closer Than Expected 130
Inside the Active Volcano On Montserrat 42
Scientists Build Neonatal Incubator From Car Parts 211
Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming 492
Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming 656
Are Biofuels Still Economically Feasible? 186
Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field 200
New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use 540
Drilling Hits an Active Magma Chamber In Hawaii 251
O'Reilly Interview Digs Into the Tech of Storm Chasing 64
Chinese Automaker Unveils First Electric Car 341
Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest 417
A Sixth Region In the Magnetosphere 69
Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ 278
Wind and Sun Beat Other Energy Alternatives 584
How a Rogue Geologist Discovered Diamonds 237
Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo 98
A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice 118
Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity 773
Hawaii Planning State-Wide Electric Car Network 255
Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food 153
UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework 152
Acorns Disappear Across the Country 474
Greenpeace Slams Apple For Environmental Record 271
Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid 256
Evolving Rocks 172
Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid 388
1.4 Billion Pixel Camera To Watch For Asteroids 138
Spanish City Sets Up Solar Cemetery 71
Machine Condenses Drinking Water Out of Thin Air 438
Object Lights Night Sky Across Canadian Prairies 125
Harnessing Slow Water Currents For Renewable Energy 113
Zapping Contrails With Microwave Emitters 125
Search For the Tomb of Copernicus Reaches an End 243
New Generator Boosts Wind Turbine Efficiency 50% 315
Rubber Duckies For Global Warming Research 167
"Heat Wheel" Could Lower Data Center Power Bills 97
Google Earth Recreates Ancient Rome 97
Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction 399
Nuke Site Converted Into Green Data Center 125
Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy 618
As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland 521
Solar Cycle 24 May Have Finally Begun 72
Daylight Savings Time Increases Energy Use In Indiana 388
Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic 86
Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs 211
Rainforest Fungus Synthesizes Diesel 244
World's Largest Flower Blooming In Streaming HD 61
Portable Solar Power For Portable Hardware? 262
Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" 353
1/3 of Amphibians Dying Out 467
Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow 443
Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth 235
Boeing 747 Modified To Act As Infrared Telescope 85
Small Bird Astounds Scientists With 11,200km Flight 99
Alternatives to Daylight Saving Time? 755
First Mars-Goers Should Prepare For a One-Way Trip 528
Geoengineering To Cool the Earth Becoming Thinkable 419
Microsoft, Google Battle Over Energy Efficiency 164
Arctic Sea Ice Rallies a Bit 152
Esther Dyson To Train For Space Flight 38
Arthropod Chain Gangs 43
Google's GeoEye-1 Takes Its First Pictures 152
Aquaduct Bike Purifies Water As You Pedal 60
EU Wants Removable Batteries In iPhones 320
Asteroid Explodes Over Sudan 114
Couple Funds Honeymoon With Recyclables 38
Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here 495
Birth of a New African Ocean 261
Dispelling Myths About Geomagnetic Reversal 158
Venture Capitalism To the Rescue 88
Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently 487
Strong Methane Emissions On the Siberian Shelf 582
Tsunami Invisibility Cloak 172
World's Oldest Rocks Found 254
On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit 518
Debunking the Google Earth Censorship Myth 294
Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk 310
NASA Uses Rubber Ducks In Climate Study 33
Ancient Yeast Used To Brew Modern Beer 106
World's First Massively Multiplayer Forecast Game? 39
Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal 385
China To Snap 4 Space Ships Into a Station 340
Compressor-Free Refrigerator On the Way 67
When Dinosaurs Battled Crurotarsans 181
Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed 625
Spectacular Fossil Forests Found In US Coalmine 197
Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling? 520
US DoD Poll On Leap Seconds 314
1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change 692
The Google Navy 259
Every Satellite Tracked In Realtime Via Google Earth 196
Insects May Have Had a Hand In Dinosaur Extinction 270
Huge Arctic Ice Shelf Breaks Off 736
Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US 455
The Sun Has First Spotless Month Since 1913 571
Live Architecture — Grow Your Own Home 106
Mayor Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans 712
Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band? 755
The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms 681
Carbon-Neutral Ziggurat Could House 1.1 Million In Dubai 393
Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive 659
2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century 1039
Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water 257
Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara 305
Biologists Create Genetic Map of Europe 287
China to Build a Zero-Carbon Green City 620
Watching China Turn Off the Pollution 427
Robot Submarine To Dive Deep In the Caribbean 99
The Effects of Exporting Used PCs To Africa 355
The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us 578
China Claims Score In Weather Manipulation 147
Google News Has Russian Army Invading Savannah, GA 413
Bigger, Cheaper Solar Cells 370
New Map of Carved Up Arctic 294
A Hidden Loop In the Carbon Cycle Discovered 310
Hot Water, Hot Earth 236
Canada Comet Lengthened the Ice Age 66
What Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells 574
Nukes Not the Best Way To Stop Asteroids, Says Apollo Astronaut 367
Thirst For Coltan Fueling African Conflict 252
Scientists Find Trigger For Northern Lights 97
Spelunkers Explore Crystalline Cave In New Mexico 99
Robocars As the Best Way Geeks Can Save the Planet 394
Google.org Invests $2.75M In Aptera Motors 110
Michigan Wins 2008 North American Solar Challenge 37
GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids 582
$250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer 371
Scientists Solve Riddle of Toxic Algae Blooms 237
Switching To Solar Power – One Month Later 730
Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea 899
China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air 362
Earth and Moon From an Alien's Perspective 150
American Solar Challenge Racers Head For Canada 144
The Largest Recorded Tsunami Was 50 Years Ago 323
Two Powerful Blows Against Air Pollution Controls 411
Antarctica Once Abutted Death Valley 182
MIT Helps Third World With Hands-On Approach 128
"Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste 438
Changes In Rocks Noted Before Earthquakes 48
Pickens Plans On Wind Power 587
Home-Based Hydrogen Refueling Station 163
Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 908
Giant Snake-Shaped Generators Could Capture Wave Power 432
Working Towards an Eco-Friendly Fireworks Display 110
Cheaper Energy From Caverns of Compressed Air 114
Solar Power From Home Curtains 239
Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 958
Pieces of Ancient Earth May Be Hidden On the Moon 96
North Pole Ice On Track To Melt By September? 978
US Halts Applications For Solar Energy Projects 481
The World's 10 Dirtiest Cities 286
First US Offshore Wind Power Park In Delaware 363
Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World 508
NASA Launches Satellite To Monitor Oceans 55
Montreal's Public Bikes To Use Web, RFID, Solar 146
DIY Solar Resources? 311
Building the Green Data Center 86
Trees' Leaves Grow At a Cool 70° All Over the World 537
Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms 800
Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual 628
Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids 1320
The SUV Is Dethroned 1234
Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere Booming 692
Google Earth Beaten By Autorendering From Photos 176
EBay Pressured To Block Sales of Ivory Products 261
Bacteria Found Alive In Ice 120,000 Years Old 326
Building a Miniature Magnetic Earth 150
Bye Bye Bananas — the Return of Panama Disease 519
Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can 261
Stonehenge As a Royal Family's Burial Site 124
MIT Develops "Paper Towel" For Oil Spills 105
Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed 556
Prism Glass Windows Making a Comeback 89
Polar Robots to Explore the Arctic 98
Giant Floating Windmills To Launch Next Year 162
Teen Discovers Plastic-Decomposing Bacteria 209
Oil Billionaire Building World's Largest Wind Farm 661
Greenpeace Complains Game Consoles Aren't Green Enough 450
Hairy Solar Cells Could Mean Higher Efficiency 203
Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices 1083
Honeywell & Airbus To Turn Algae Into Jet Fuel 273
Life-Size Photo of a Blue Whale 84
Earthquake In China 595
Using Microwaves To Cook Ballast Stowaways 186
Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today 645
Round Robin Scheduling Not Power-Efficient 141
DOE Pumps $126.6 Million Into Carbon Sequestration 489
First Town In US To Become 100% Wind Powered 391
Tesla Motors Opens Retail Store 442
2 Finds Add To Giant Earthworm Science In Northwest 39
How Earth Resembles a Gooey Confection 105
Data Centers Expected to Pollute More Than Airlines by 2020 322
Early Contenders for the Automotive X-Prize 309
Xerox Demos Self-Erasing, Eco-Friendly Paper 204
Warning Buoy Network Protects Right Whales 65
Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End 365
Solar Powered Microbes Manufacture Biofuels 230
Humans Nearly Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago 777
GPS Used To Find Graves In Eco-Burial Sites 171
$1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight 740
Will the Earth's Tail Fry Moon Visitors? 166
Google Earth 4.3 Offers a Number of New Features 133
Nuked Coral Reef Bounces Back 332
Tech That Will Save Our Species - Solar Thermal Power 648
Eco-Marathon Team Hits 2,843 mpg 314
Monsanto's Harvest of Fear 517
Flowers' Smell Not Traveling As Far 113
Old Subway Cars As Artificial Reef 169
Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x 869
China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather 387
Lack of Molybdenum May Have Delayed Life on Earth 89
A Super-Efficient Light Bulb 468
Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents 560
The Uncertain Future of Global Population Numbers 279
Drugs In Our Drinking Water 483
Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy 550
VW Set To Release Diesel Hybrid 179
Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming 670
Encyclopedia of Life Launches First 30,000 Pages 87
Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth 343
Building a Green PC 190
100-MPG Air-Powered Car Headed To US Next Year 449
New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2 285
California Lawmaker Seeks Climate Change as part of Public Education 313
Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse 506
China Vows to Stop the Rain 214