oldephartte(in training): 11 Sept

The report of the Warburton inquiry, commissioned by Australia's government as a hatchet job on the renewable electricity industry, has unintentionally demonstrated that renewables pose a real alternative to coal-fired electricity and are undermining ...

Can REthinking Power Generation Create A Renewable Energy Future?

CleanTechnica

The answer is easy, at least according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA): Speed up renewable energy technology adoption across the world. The first volume of IRENA's REthinking Energy report says renewables could double their ...

Ontario Grid Hits 35% Renewable Energy

CleanTechnica

As I write this, there are 2,312 MW of wind power being dumped into the Ontario grid. This is out of a total of about 19,000 MW of demand. That's a whopping 12% of total grid power being met by wind. I'll be honest, I didn't think Ontario renewable ...

Shell CEO talks investors, safety and renewable energy in Rigzone interview

The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com

Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden has only spent a few months on the job, but he sees opportunity for the company to spend its money wiser, be more proactive about safety measures and play a bigger role in developing renewable energy sources, ...

Human Habitat

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Authors push improving garden ecology

The Columbian

"Why do residential landscapes suddenly have to shoulder this new ecological responsibility?" Tallamy writes. "Quite simply, the natural world is now so fragmented that any given piece is no longer large enough to sustain most of the species within it ...

Speaker series marks 50 years of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Cornell Chronicle

At its founding in 1964, the Section of Ecology and Systematics (later renamed the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) was created as one of five “sections” of the Division of Biological Sciences. The growing faculty became an integrated ...

Ancient Egypt Once Had a Different Ecology

Guardian Liberty Voice

Ancient Egypt once had different and more complex ecology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown. A study concerning the steady decline of animal life along the Nile reveals that Egypt's animal population was affected over time ...

Speaker series marks 50 years of Ecology and Environmental Biology

Cornell Chronicle

Water Power

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Californians cut water use 7.5% in July as drought continues

Los Angeles Times

Californians have shown a quick about-face and have started cutting back on water usage in urban areas, the State Water Resources Control Board announced Tuesday. Using water production as an indicator of urban use, the board reported a 7.5% ...

Alien-Like Giant Water-Living Dinosaur Unveiled

ABC News

Spinosaurus had a long neck, strong clawed forearms, powerful jaws and the dense bones of a penguin. It propelled itself in water with flat feet that were probably webbed, according to a study released Thursday by the journal Science. The beast sported ...

Jersey City daycare children OK after accidentally drinking bleach/water ...

The Jersey Journal - NJ.com

All 28 children and two adults who accidentally ingested a mixture of water and bleach at a Downtown Jersey City daycare center this morning are fine after being released from Jersey City Medical Center-St. Barnabas Health, hospital officials said. At ...

Water theft dooms volunteer fire dept.

U-T San Diego

SAN PASQUAL VALLEY — The San Pasqual Volunteer Fire Department will be dissolved and its board of directors left with nothing to oversee, county officials announced Wednesday, following recent revelations that the department had siphoned water from ...