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You’ve probably had it drilled into your head that your gadgets are doing terrible, terrible things to the environment — and not just ’cause they end up as toxic landfill in poorer countries. Many of your chargers and electronics continue to draw power even when they’re off or your device is disconnected. We’ve seen some [...]

NEW YORK ? Online search and advertising giant Google is teaming with investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. to develop four solar energy farms serving the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in California. Google said Tuesday on its Green Blog that it will spend $94 million on the projects. They also will receive equity from [...]

[unable to retrieve full-text content] AP – Renato Dulbecco, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in medicine for his seminal research on the interaction between tumors and cells, has died in California. He was 97. Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120220/ap_on_sc/eu_italy_obit_dulbecco criminal minds gaia who tuba ovulation bloom msu

ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2012) ? Charles Greene, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, is an expert on the protection of threatened marine ecosystems. Greene comments on the potential for ecological disaster posed by the 2,300 tons of fuel oil still aboard the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia, half submerged on the [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti ? Nobel laureate Oscar Arias has advised Haitian President Michel Martelly that it would be an “error” to restore the disbanded army, according to a letter delivered to presidential offices on Monday. In the two-page letter dated Nov. 28, the two-time president of Costa Rica tells Martelly that armed forces in the region [...]