Earth Stories for 2010

Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum? 571
World's Plant Life Far Less Diverse Than Thought 338
South Korea Launches First Electric Bus Fleet 168
Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything 241
Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City 509
Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System 572
California Rare-Earth Mine Reopens 244
African Villages Glow With Renewable Energy 172
Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places 586
New Solar Reactor Prototype Unveiled 50
Solar Dynamo Still Anemic, Magnetism and UV Lax 156
Scientists Decipher 3-Billion-Year-Old Genomic Fossils 217
First Measurement of Magnetic Field In Earth's Core 34
JBI's Plastic To Oil Gets Operating Permit 223
Watch 200 Years of Global Growth In 4 Minutes 270
Ukraine To Open Chernobyl Area To Tourists 207
EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Bees 410
Lingerie Company Recycles Bras Into Insulation 2
Chevron Got North Sea Contract Despite IT Safety Crashes 89
Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? 747
Environmental Watchdogs Confused By E-Waste Practices 113
Google Earth Engine To Provide Climate Change Data 107
NASA Confirms Discovery of Organism With Phosphorus-Free DNA 380
Sahara Solar To Power Half the World By 2050 363
Using Cinnamon In the Production of Nanoparticles 126
Google Earth Adds 3-D Trees 95
Earth's Water Didn't Come From Outer Space 181
BP Ignored Safety Modeling Software To Save Time 203
South Africa Drones For Anti-Rhino-Poaching Patrol 96
One Giant Cargo Ship Pollutes As Much As 50M Cars 595
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 221
US Embassy Categorizes Beijing Air Quality As 'Crazy Bad' 270
Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust 335
The Story of My As-Yet-Unverified Impact Crater 250
Modeling Software Showed BP Cement As Unstable 160
White House Edited Oil Drilling Safety Report 368
Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights 348
Engineers Propose Lily Pad-Like Floating Cities 309
Researchers Race To Recover Radioactive Rabbits 145
Religious Ceremony Leads To Evolution of Cave Fish 233
Harry Potter Blamed For India's Disappearing Owls 252
Igloo Created Out of Fridges In Hamburg 1
Car Produced With a 3D Printer 257
Saving Lives On the Battlefield With Green Tech 188
How the Global Seed Vault Aims To Fight Future Famine 115
Calculating Environmental Damage From Space Tourism Rockets 83
40 Million Year Old Primate Fossils Found In Asia 91
Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia 109
Global Warming's Silver Lining For the Arctic Rim 582
IBM Says New Software Will Help Predict Natural Disasters 72
Mazda Claims 70 mpg For New Engine, No Hybrid Needed 576
Giant Lab Replicates Category 3 Hurricanes 97
Boeing 747 Recycled Into a Private Residence 239
China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US 738
MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System 117
UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun 377
Humans Will Need Two Earths By 2030 738
Searching For Alternatives To China's Rare Earth Monopoly 199
New Fish Species Discovered 4.5 Miles Under the Ocean 96
Economy Puts US Nuclear Reactors Back In Doubt 392
Carnivorous Swamp Beast Discovered In Madagascar 157
Alaska To Export Billions of Gallons of Water 290
Largest Genome Ever 189
Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues 341
Solar Power On the White House 405
US Military Orders Less Dependence On Fossil Fuel 317
Japan Begins Recycling Rare Earth Metals From Electronics 168
West Virginia Is Geothermically Active 239
Brooklyn Father And Son Launch Homemade Spacecraft 243
Genetically Altering Trees To Sequester More Carbon 279
Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 295
NASA Data Reveals China's Industrial Air Pollution 133
China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan 470
Online Shopping May Actually Increase Pollution 410
BP Permanently Seals Gulf Oil Well 368
Designing Wireless Sensors To Be Dropped Into Volcanoes 126
Self-Assembling Photovoltaic Cells 103
Capturing Carbon With Garbage Heaps 186
Facing Oblivion, Island Nation Makes Big Sacrifice 360
A Portable Laser Backpack For 3D Mapping 66
Is DIY Algae Farming the Future? 322
Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong 1027
German Military Braces For Peak Oil 764
Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half 414
BP's Gulf Spill Report Shows String of Failures 181
The State of Mapping APIs, 5 Years On 100
Transition Metal Catalysts Could Be Key To Origin of Life 145
Yellowstone Hot Spot Shreds Ancient Pacific Ocean 69
DNA-Less 'Red Rain' Cells Reproduce At 121 C 149
Solving an Earth-Sized Jigsaw Puzzle 39
9 Ideas For Coping With Space Junk 149
EPA Proposes Grading System For Car Fuel Economy 272
Judge Quashes Subpoena of UVA Research Records 293
China Plans To Mine the Yellow Sea Floor 223
Can an Open Source Map Project Make Money? 304
MIT Unveils Oil-Skimming Robot Swarm Prototype 123
Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport 357
New Jersey County Fights Landfill Odors Using Fragrant Spray Trucks 104
Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home 482
National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity 635
Smart Trash Carts Tell If You Haven't Been Recycling 622
'Exploding Lake' Provides Electricity For Rwanda 102
Bicycles As a Gateway To Government Control 634
Can Solar Storms Cause Wildfires? 87
Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover 368
China To Close 2,000 Factories In Energy Crackdown 242
Just One Out of 16 Hybrids Pays Back In Gas Savings 762
Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking 973
100-Sq.-Mile Ice Island Breaks Off Greenland Glacier 323
Gasoline From Thin Air 283
Boeing's Hybrid Electric Airliner of the Future 152
Radioactive Boar On the Rise In Germany 165
Fur Flies Over Squirrel Meat Sales 4
Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife 201
Electric Car Subsidies As Handouts For the Rich 589
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Dwarf Support For Renewables 172
1-in-1,000 Chance of Asteroid Impact In ... 2182? 326
Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says 1657
NASA's Top 10 Space Junk Missions 103
Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar 635
X Prize To Offer Millions For Gulf Oil Cleanup Solution 171
Long In Development, Toshiba 'SCiB' Battery Debuts 284
Plastic Bottle Catamaran Crosses The Pacific Ocean 56
NASA Creates First Global Forest Map Using Lasers 55
BP Caught Photoshopping Disaster Response Photos 560
The Rise of Small Nuclear Plants 490
Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View 312
New Photos Show 'Devastating' Ice Loss On Everest 895
IEEE Looks At Kevin Costner's Oil Cleanup Machines 289
WISE Discovers 95 New Near-Earth Asteroids 112
First Halophile Potatoes Harvested 117
Thermosphere Contraction Puzzles Scientists 200
The Gulf's Great Turtle Relocation Project 104
Aussie Lasers To Stop Satellite Collisions, Death 84
BP Claims Gulf Well Has Been Stopped 601
Pacific Trash Vortex To Become Habitable Island? 323
Austrian Swimmers Told To Shut Their Mouths At Public Pools 4
Nuclear Power Could See a Revival 415
Infants Ingest 77 Times the Safe Level of Dioxin 343
Data Centers Prepare for a Renewable Future 97
Electric Cars Won't Strain the Power Grid 438
The Search For the Mount Everest of Caves 233
Climategate and the Need For Greater Scientific Openness 701
New Batfish Species Found Under Gulf Oil Spill 226
Concrete That Purifies the Air 88
Oil-Spotting Blimp Arrives In the Gulf 109
Inside the Fake PC Recycling Market 320
Solar-Powered Plane Making 24-hour Flight 85
'Forest Bathing' Considered Healthful 252
Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth 298
Ban On Photographing Near Gulf Oil Booms 435
Price Shocks May Be Coming For Helium Supply 362
Dutch Agency Admits Mistakes In UN Climate Report 447
Oil Means More Arsenic In Seawater 168
Climategate's Final Days 872
German Airports Use Bees To Monitor Air Quality 44
ESA's GOCE Satellite Provides Gravity Map of Earth 119
MIT Says Natural Gas Best To Lower Carbon Emissions 284
BP Robot Seriously Hampers Oil Spill Containment 264
1,400 Megapixel Pan-STARRS Telescope Comes Online 54
Increasing Algal Blooms Threaten China's Coasts 0
5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England 560
Louisiana Federal Judge Blocks Drilling Moratorium 691
Europe To Import Sahara Solar Power Within 5 Years 450
New Air Conditioner Process Cuts Energy Use 50-90% 445
German Radar Satellite Lifts Off Tonight 65
Potato-Powered Batteries Debut 284
First Photos From the European Solar Decathlon 26
Tornado Scientists Butt Heads With Storm Chasers 402
Afghan Tech Minerals — Cure, Curse, Or Hype? 184
Congressman Tells BP Exec That Other Cultures Would Demand His Suicide 10
Quantum Dots Could Double Solar Energy Efficiency 112
How Sperm Whales Offset Their Carbon Footprint 150
Solar-Powered Ultralight To Try 24-Hour Flight 104
Airplanes Unexpectedly Modify Weather 223
$1 Trillion In Minerals Found In Afghanistan 688
Hong Kong Company Develops Solar-Powered Lightbulb 222
Newly Discovered Bacteria Could Aid Oil Cleanup 167
Microsoft's Sleep Proxy Lowers PC Energy Use 163
Renewable Energy To Power Aussie SKA 48
ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis 470
DoE Posts Raw Data From Oil Spill, Coast Guard Asks For Tech Help 138
Gulf Oil Spill Disaster — Spawn of the Living Dead 228
2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why 1042
US Confirms Underwater Oil Plume 353
Studies Prove BPA Can Cross Placenta To Fetuses 234
Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water 327
Quantifying, and Dealing With, the Deepwater Spill 343
US Climate Satellite Capabilities In Jeopardy 127
Drunken Parrots Falling From Sky 30
Giant Guatemalan 'Sinkhole' Is Worse Than We Thought 357
Sticky Rice Is the Key To Super Strong Mortar 194
New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M 256
'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time 604
Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss 542
UK Students Build Electric Car With 248-Mile Range 192
BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago 438
BP Says "Top Kill" Operation Has Failed 768
Intel Sucks Up Water Amid Drought In China 386
Gulf of Mexico Gets Wave-Powered Desalination Plant 75
Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? 611
NSF Gives Supercomputer Time For 3-D Model of Spill 102
Bill Joy On Sun, Microsoft, Open Source, and Creativity 173
Pacific Northwest At Risk For Mega-Earthquake 457
Random Hacks of Kindness 69
BP Prepares Complex "Top Kill" Bid To Plug Well 365
Oil Arrives In Louisiana; Defense Booms Inadequate 359
BP's Final "Top Kill" Procedure For Gulf Oil Spill 593
Vast Asteroid Crater Found In Timor Sea 121
Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars 327
World's Smallest Kangaroo Found 4
National Academy of Science Urges Carbon Tax 875
New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed 263
"Argonaut" Octopus Sucks Air Into Shell As Ballast 72
Gulf Oil Spill Nearing Loop Current 334
Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface 483
Obama Sends Nuclear Experts To Tackle BP Oil Spill 389
Gulf Gusher Worst Case Scenario 799
Lidar Finds Overgrown Maya Pyramids 169
Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke 799
Methane-Trapping Ice May Have Triggered Gulf Spill 341
Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines 403
Geostationary GPS Satellite Galaxy 15 Out of Control 379
First Superbugs, Now Superweeds 435
Climate Change and the Integrity of Science 1046
Underwater Ocean Kites To Harvest Tidal Energy 203
Recession Cuts Operation That Uses Hair To Clean Up Oil 119
Japanese Company Turns Diapers Into Energy Source 65
Hundred-Ton Dome To Collect Oil Spill 565
Texas Tells Cape Wind "You're Not First Yet" 374
How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? 913
Google Explains Why It Became an Energy Trader 112
Virginia AG Probing Michael Mann For Fraud 617
Japanese Researchers Make Plastic Out of Water 117
Can Oil-Eating Bacteria Help Clean Up the Gulf Oil Spill? 139
Purple Pokeberries Yield Cheap Solar Power 206
Life's Building Blocks Found On Asteroid 24 Themis 135
Government Approves First US Offshore Wind Farm 432
NASA Expands Role of International Space Station 153
Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming 344
Paper Manufacturer Launches "Print More" Campaign 446
Was Flight Ban Over Ash an Overreaction? 673
Aral Sea May Recover; Dead Sea Needs a Lifeline 131
Report Blames NRC For VT Yankee Leak 136
Cows On Treadmills Produce Clean Power For Farms 640
Towards an Open Geolocation Database 74
Microbe Mat the Size of Greece Discovered In the Sea 135
EU Conducts Test Flights To Assess Impact of Volcanic Ash On Aircraft 410
Another WW-I Chemical Site In Washington, DC 249
Satellites Keep Aircraft Away From Volcanic Cloud 109

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