| Melting Sea Ice Complicates Polar Bear Habitat Protection? The Interior Department moved closer to establishing habitat protections for the polar bear yesterday by sending its proposed rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review.The habitat protections will add another layer in what has become a complicated process for protecting the bear , fraught with concerns and legal complaints from environmentalists and industry groups. [More] rss.sciam.com |
What Will It Take to Make the Copenhagen Conference a Success? Dear EarthTalk: What do organizers hope to accomplish at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference being held in Copenhagen (December 7 to 18, 2009)? --F. Rojas, Oakland, Calif. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Smokestash Industry: ARPA-E Seeks Breakthroughs in Carbon Capture Technology WASHINGTON--Every second, our bodies capture carbon dioxide in our tissues, transport it via the blood, and dump it in the lungs from where it is exhaled. This unconscious process is yet another way humans contribute to the accumulation of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere--albeit in a minuscule volume compared with burning fossil fuels . The key to this metabolic process is an enzyme called carbonic anhydrase and it's efficiency at capturing and releasing CO2 is what human engineers want to mimic at the power plant scale. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Spare Times A selected guide to museums, exhibitions, screenings, discussions, readings, tastings, recreation and other events in the New York area. nytimes.com |
Spare Times: For Childen for Oct. 29-Nov. 4 A selected guide to events for and by children in New York. nytimes.com |