WATER POWER
Kansas City Star
1 in Logan County, West Virginia, would fill six valleys, bury more than seven miles of streams, destroy 2278 acres of forest and pollute water in adjacent ...
New York Times
By DINA FINE MARON of Greenwire A company whose technology taps sunlight to purify drinking water for communities besieged by wars and natural disasters is ...
Huffington Post (blog)
Imagine handing your child a glass ofwater -- it's brown, full of garbage, bacteria, things you wouldn't step in, let alone drink. ...
Contra Costa Times
The council action followed a morning of debate and maneuvering over a proposal by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to raise Department of Water and Power rates ...
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posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 hours ago
The country added an area of forest bigger than twice the size of Connecticut in the last decade. But a global assessment of Earth's forests wasn't all good news.
POLITICS - The South Korean naval ship below sank today near North Korean territorial waters, setting the South Korean military into a panic over a possible renewed war with North Korea. The waters betwee...
By Charles Moffat - March 2010. HEALTH - On my lap as I type this is the book "Auto Repair for Dummies"... Its not that people who read such books are dumb, its just that the "Blankety Blank Book for Dumm...
Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdqjcW8u7Lw *Isn't this moving*, ...euphonious? This Bulgarian song goes about this: A young girl is praying to God. Please God give me eyes of a dove, please God...
posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories- 6 hours ago
It was a horrible crime against a young child that made headlines around the world: A seven-year-old girl named Somer Thompson vanished while walking home from school one day in October 2009. Her parents s...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours ago
Pet rodents display more intelligence than their wild relatives, probably as a result of living with us.
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours ago
Loggers came across the wreckage of a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, but it's not clear how it got there.
posted by Gene Charleton at Discovery News - Top Stories - 9 hours ago
Electrodes and a computer translates biological nerve signals into computerized signals that control electric motors in a bionic arm and hand.
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours ago
If the violent conditions observed so far are any indication, this weekend's weather forecast for Neptune can't be good.
posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 12 hours ago
When the Vice President dropped the f-bomb this week, he sparked a flurry of controversy, but researchers point out cussing has been around for centuries.
posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours ago
Bees' color vision clocks in as the fastest in the animal world.
*Palm Sunday is the day* that in Spain and in particularly Andalucia the 'Semana Santa' commences with religious acts and processions. Ever more tourists come to see the colorful, fairylike events. Many v...
posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours ago
Why bother producing power when we can simply take it?
The June 2008 Committee on International Trade passed a motion that the *Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement* should not be ratified until an *independent* human rights impact assessment could be carried ...
RELIGION/SEX - A growing scandal is growing around Pope Benedict because he ignored the molestation of children by priests under his authority. The scandal began years ago when an American priest admitted ...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
The 19th-century slave ship became an icon of the abolitionist movement.
*Sumatra and Chile* play an important part in understanding how delicate our lives are - at a cosmic scale. Heavy earthquakes that rock these regions since 2004 appear to have changed the orbit of the Ear...
posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
The king of the dinosaurs may have had a larger domain than once thought.
ENTERTAINMENT - You might be surprised by the number of archeologists who believe in aliens... or more precisely they believe there are too many coincidences between ancient cultures to suggest these cultu...
posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
The National Renewable Energy Lab, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, has some new deputies in its push to develop cheaper, more efficient solar cells. Meet the NREL bots. In the shiny Proce...
posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Like a great smokestack, Asia's summer monsoon is blowing high into the atmosphere a climate-altering cocktail of industrial pollutants generated by the burgeoning economies of China, India and Indonesia, ...
posted by Ray Villard at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Neptune and Uranus may possibly be hiding 4-billion year old clues to interplanetary homicide.
posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Birds that normally eat insects switch to antioxidant-rich berries just before starting their long journey south for winter.
posted by Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas atFondos para tu computadora - 1 day ago
[image: Especial de Autos (27 wallpapers de 1920x1200px)]*Nota:* *Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías.* Esta sí que es una verdadera colección de wallpapers dedicada en ...
posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Nacre, or mother of pearl, is one of the toughest and most beautiful natural materials on Earth. Now scientists can make it -- cheaply.
posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
Keeping yourself clean may pollute the environment.
posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day ago
After NASA sent a sophisticated software upgrade to Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, the wheeled robot can now "choose" which rocks to investigate. Mars exploration just got smarter.
posted by Sarah Dowdey at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
Canada has a high tech toy to help them win the New Arctic Land Grab: a big, yellow submarine.
posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories- 2 days ago
When the topic of eating meat comes up, on occasion my vegan and vegetarian friends will recite a list of reasons they abstain from consuming the flesh of animals. (Not that they need to justify anything t...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
Counting all of those twinkling lights in the night sky just got a lot harder.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
Today's news about X-Woman, an unknown hominin that coexisted with Neanderthals and our species 30,000 to 50,000 years ago, suggests that at least four different forms of humans were in Europe and Asia aft...
posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
The Shroud of Turin, the controversial piece of linen that some believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, could finally be dated accurately. A new method "stands to revolutionize radiocarbon dating,"...
Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
A 30-year-long argument between India and Bangladesh has ended in a draw.
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
A newly discovered human species likely wore heavy clothing and bracelets and hunted large game.
posted by John D. Cox at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
Sensitive Global Positioning System and other satellite-borne sensors have detected the accelerating northwestern migration of ice loss the length of coastal Greenland since 2005. Scientists have known for...
posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
Venomous snake competitions were recently held in Australia, according to a new study that describes the events: sprint trials in a racetrack, tongue flicking, thrashing, biting when held, and wrapping aro...
posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
It has now been ten weeks since a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, killing over 200,000 people, injuring a similar number and leaving an estimated one million people homeless. Even as th...
posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
Even the smoke generated from cooking unhealthy food could be a hazard to your health.
Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
A harsh winter and the apparent spread of pesticides into hives is worsening a crisis among the pollinators, which are crucial for crops.
posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
I'm not talking about the virtual worlds found in World of Warcraft or Second Life. I'm talking about Earth, our motherland, la tierra. And I'm wondering if those people who spend 16 billion hours a year t...
posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days ago
Scientists believe helium is condensing like a mist in the upper layers of the gas giant planet.
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