Earth Stories for 2011

New Record High Temperature At South Pole 387
Sun Storms May Affect Radios, Cell Phones Today 50
Melting Glaciers Cutting Peru Water Supply 421
China Begins Using New Global Positioning Satellites 168
Weird Fossils Show Ancient Organism Reproducing 32
Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers 377
The Chinese Town Where Old Christmas Lights Go 117
The Fjord-Cooled Data Center 195
IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig To Plate 216
Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes 236
Fracking Disclosure Rules Approved In CO 279
Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord 561
Quantum Dots Will Make Flexible Displays 83
Google Founder Offer $33M For Use of NASA Airship Hangar 86
Is the Earth Special? 745
'Merging Tsunami' Amplified Destruction In Japan 50
Physical Models In an Age of Computers 78
Kepler Confirms Exoplanet Inside Star's Habitable Zone 257
Toxic Montana Lake's Extremophiles Might Be a Medical Treasure Trove 133
Yeti Crab Cultivates Bacteria On Claw, Then Eats Them 49
Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling 393
Should Composting Be Mandatory In US Cities? 861
Permafrost Loss Greater Threat Than Deforestation 272
Scientists Cryo-Freeze Coral Reef 130
Earthscraper Takes Sustainable Design Underground 269
The Problem With Carbon-Cutting Programs 219
155 MPH Biofuel Truck Breaks Speed Record 105
Climate May Be Less Sensitive To CO2 Than Previously Thought 413
The Myth of Renewable Energy 835
New Batch of Leaked Climate Emails 585
4 Wave Gliders Begin Their Autonomous Pacific Crossing Attempt 41
Climate Panel Says To Prepare For Weird Weather 469
Giant Chinese Desert Mystery Structure Solved 161
Apple Addresses Factory Pollution In China 190
Mongolia Wants To Use Artificial Glaciers To Cool Capital 97
China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert 412
Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? 288
Canary Islands Eruption Could Create New Land 93
X-ray Facility To Simulate Conditions At Earth's Core 37
IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years 1105
Mapping a World of Human Activity 36
World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario 760
One Tenth of China's Farmland Polluted With Heavy Metals 412
Oklahoma Hit By Its Strongest-Ever Recorded Quake 202
Cracks Signal Massive Iceberg Forming In Antarctica 147
Google Maps, Disease Risk, and Migration 34
Meet the Saber-Toothed Squirrel 59
Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking 318
Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 169
Climate Change Skeptic Results Released Today 776
Fish Evolve Immunity To Toxic Sludge 267
Droughts Linked To Global Warming 535
In Bolivia, a Supervolcano Is Rising 469
Sensor Enables 3D Mapping of Rainforests 35
Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts 80
Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans 473
Public Supports Geo-Engineering 164
3D Printers To Save Hermit Crabs 107
German Paleontologists Find a 'Near-Perfect' Dinosaur Fossil 99
$529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars 372
Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study 967
When Political Mapping Leaks Into Science Research 154
Comet Nearly Hit Earth? Not So Fast 84
Comet May Have Missed Earth By a Few hundred Kilometers 265
Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global 944
Columbus Blamed For Mini Ice Age 420
Grooved Disk Spinner Cleans Up: $1M For Winner of Oil Recovery Challenge 54
T-Rex Bigger and Hungrier Than Previously Thought 104
Massive Rare Earth Deposit Found In Australia 149
Could Electron Counts Detect Major Earthquakes? 106
Severe Arctic Ozone Loss 259
Climate Change Driving War? 178
Should Science Be King In Politics? 737
NASA, Google Award $1.35M For Ultra-Efficient Electric Aircraft 89
Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years 458
A Third of Sun-Like Stars May Have Warm Earth Analogs 188
150th Anniversary of Greenhouse Climate Theory 407
NASA Warns of Magnetic Storm After Huge Solar Flare 84
IBM Seeks Patent On Retailer-Rigged Driving Routes 150
Australian Aboriginal DNA Suggests 70,000-Year History 228
EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers 394
Self-Powered Microbial Fuel Cell Produces Hydrogen 58
MIT's $1,000 House Challenge Yields Results 203
Atlas Takes Heat For Melting Glacier Claim 429
Scientists Plan "Artificial Volcano" Climate Experiment 292
Fixing the Final Steps In the Recycling Chain 45
Of Diamond Planets, Climate Change, and the Scientific Method 821
Power Demand From US Homes Expected To Fall For a Decade 261
New Skeleton Finds May Revamp History of Human Evolution 131
The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany 394
Google Details and Defends Its Use of Electricity 237
Icelandic Rocks Suggest Meteorites Brought Gold To Earth 82
Fukushima and Chernobyl Side-by-Side 284
World Population Expected To Hit 7 Billion In Late October 522
Kevin Kelly Answers Your Questions 65
Ask Slashdot: Classroom Eco-Projects Suited To Alaska? 157
Using Stem Cells to Save Endangered Species 73
Report Warns of Space Junk Reaching a Tipping Point 105
Journal Editor Resigns Over Flawed Global Warming Paper 396
Juno Looks Back, Photographs Earth-Moon System 100
When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane? 426
Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? 990
Evidence Points To Huge Underground River Beneath Amazon 116
Hurricane Irene Prompts Unprecedented Evacuation of NYC 395
New Oil Slick In Gulf Waters Linked To BP Well 98
Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets 202
Michael Mann Vindicated (Again) Over Climategate 961
5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US 614
World's Oldest Fossils Found On Australian Beach 80
Earth Ejecta Could Seed Life On Europa 130
Antarctica's Ice Flow Fully Mapped For the First Time 90
Rare Earth Restrictions To Raise Hard Drive Cost 254
Chinese Researchers Propose Asteroid Deflection Mission 198
NASA Shoots Down Comet Elenin Doomsday Predictions 144
Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations 692
UN Climate Report Fails To Capture Arctic Ice: MIT 465
What's the Carbon Footprint of Bicycling? 542
US Pumps $175M Into Advanced Auto Fuel Research 200
US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking 294
How Does GPS Change Us? 266
Orange Goo Invades Alaskan Village 153
Perseid Meteor Shower To Be Hampered By Full Moon 43
$1.5 Billion Star Trek Theme Park Coming To Jordan 233
Drought-Stricken Texas Town Taps Urine For Water 300
Power Companies Brace For Solar Storms 111
Anti-Matter Belt Discovered Around Earth 208
Saving Gas Via Underpowered Death Traps 585
Rare Earth Deposit Discovered In US 338
Are We Seeing the End of Big Oil? 230
Volunteer Towns Sought For Nuclear Waste 279
Followup: Anti-Global Warming Story Itself Flawed 536
New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models 954
Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data 507
Interviews: Ask Technologist Kevin Kelly About Everything 135
Massive Solar Tower Planned For Arizona 407
Today's Lighter TVs Mean Much Less E-Waste 197
Why Waste Servers' Heat? 204
World's Largest Visualization Analytics Display 24
Second Life Mine Simulation Receives an Emmy Nomination 65
Earth's Population To Hit 7 Billion This Year 461
Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White' 722
Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are 97
Mexico's Recycled Concrete Tube Hotel 5
Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet 471
MIT Researchers Printing Solar Cells On Fold-able Sheets 44
Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban 990
Congressmen Pushing To Reopen Yucca Mountain 212
Millions of Jellyfish Invade Nuclear Reactors 280
Snow Falls On the Most Arid Desert On Earth 195
Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese 588
Eyeglasses Made of Human Hair 97
Space Station To Get HD Streaming Video Camera 50
China's Coal Power Plants Mask Climate Change 464
Japanese Team Finds New Source of Rare Earth Elements 215
Toyota Scion IQ Electric Car To Launch In 2012 344
Airplanes Cause Accidental Cloud Seeding 151
Bizarre Expanding Light Halo Seen By Hawaii Webcam 38
Climate Skeptic Funded By Oil and Coal Companies 504
Cool-Factor Predicted To Spur Energy Conservation 130
France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power 308
San Francisco Considers Ban On All Pet Sales 733
Gray Whale, Southern-Hemisphere Algae Seen In N. Atlantic 257
The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland 477
Long Now Clock Advances With Bezos Cash 169
Two More Google Software Dogs Go To Heaven 122
New Process Allows Fuel Cells To Run On Coal 125
Caltech Scientists Measure Dinosaur Body Temp 51
Homemade 'Mars In a Bottle' Tortures Bacteria 154
SCOTUS: Clean Air Act Trumps Emissions Lawsuits 303
Weather Satellites Lose Funding 275
Osage Oppose Wind Power At Tallgrass Prairie 147
No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age 473
Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers 236
NASA's Aquarius Launched To Help Map the Oceans' Salt 64
Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size? 1070
Rare Midnight Solar Eclipse Caught In the Arctic 24
Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 520
Cleaning Up Japan's Radioactive Mess With Blue Goo 102
Wikipedia Edits Around the World 85
Google Founders' Jets Caught On WSJ's Radar 427
Volcano Erupts In Iceland 191
Signs of Ozone Layer Recovery Detected 363
Local Atmosphere Heated Rapidly Before Japan Quake 202
Tunnel Boring Machine Completes Hole Under Niagara Falls 193
Search For Alien Life On 86 Planets Begins 248
Ford Uses Google For a New Type of Smart Car 68
MasterCard Transactions To Be Mined For CO2 Data 124
Ugly Truth of Space Junk 185
High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water 390
Global Warming To Hinder Wi-Fi Signals, Claims UK Gov't 280
EU Plans to Pay Fishermen to Catch Plastic 10
Former Senator Wants to Mine The Moon 351
More Data Centers Using On-Site Solar Power 88
Using Googlemaps To Simulate Tsunamis 40
NASA Satellite Shows Southern Tornadoes From Space 59
Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record 164
Solar Panels Increase Home Value 352
Mitigating Fukushima's Dangers, 42 Days In 245
Greenpeace Says the Internet Emits Too Much CO2 370
What Happened To the Climate Refugees? 471
Taking Radioactive Contaminants From Water With Shells 50
Just In: Yellowstone Is Big(ger) 109
An Autonomous Sailing Robot To Clean Up Oil Spills 62
Google Earth To Include Google Deep Sea 37
New Livestock Diet Could Significantly Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 1
New Dinosaur Species Found In China 139
China Detects 10 Cases of Radiation Contamination, 2 In Hospital 150
Crack In Fukushima Structure May Be Leaking Radiation 280
Earth's Gravitational Shape In Detail 78
Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer 41
Why Russian Space Images Look Different From NASA's 203
Americans Favor Moratorium On New Nuclear Reactors 964
US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax 1306
DNA Analysis Hints At a Fourth Domain of Life 124
Journey To the Mantle of the Earth By 2020 262
Help Map Global Light Pollution, By Starlight 148
A Look At the World's Dwindling Food Supply 570
Ask Slashdot: How Prepared Are You For a Major Emergency? 562
See The Supermoon Tonight 102
Geologists Say California May Be Next 258
NASA Satellite Snaps Rare Cloud-Free Ireland 113
Further Updates On Post-Tsumami Japan 369
Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material 321
Japan Earthquake May Have Shifted Earth's Axis 253
Robert X Cringely Predicts More Mininuke Plants 430
Net Sees Earthquake Damage, Routes Around It 177
Researchers Find Possible Atlantis Location 218
8.8 Earthquake Near Japanese Coast 431
Ariz. Team Seeks Fossil-Fuel Cost Parity, Using Solar Energy Concentrators 245
Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made 264
Meteorites Brought Ingredients of Life To Earth 199
Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs 1049
Scientists Cleared of Misusing Global Warming Data 541
For California, an Earthquake Early Warning System Is Up and Running 152
Biodegradable Sneakers Sprout Flowers When Planted 242
Earth's Inner Core Rotation Slower Than Estimated 223
Huge Amounts of Oil Found On Gulf of Mexico Floor 426
Laptop Design For Disassembly 188
The Outfall of a Helium-3 Crisis 185
Oil Companies Patent Trolling Biofuel Production 183
Solar Flare Interferes With Radio, But No Big Auroras 37
Stanford, UCD Researchers Say 100% Renewable Energy Possible By 2050 360
Two Huge Holes In the Sun Spotted 204
Sandia Helps Secure Kazakh Nuclear Material 88
Leaked Cables Reveal US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated 385
US To Fire Up Big Offshore Wind Energy Projects 223
Giant Archaeological Trove Found Via Google Earth 126
NASA Finds Family of Habitable Planets 184
Model Says Religiosity Gene Will Dominate Society 729
Dubai’s World of Islands Is Sinking Into the Sea 11

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