Google’s Renewable Energy Investments Top $1B

Google, a company that has been carbon neutral since 2007, is about to top $1 billion in renewable energy investments. The company is a huge energy consumer; its data centers’ operations use as much energy as nearly a quarter of a million households. But Google...

In Focus: Are Smart Homes the Future?

For years, people have been talking about so-called ‘Smart Homes’ that will transform live as we know it and forever alter the way we go about our daily lives. Both fiction and speculative science have been replete with visions of the dwellings of the...

Fixing Australian bike share goes beyond helmet laws

Bike share programs in Melbourne and Brisbane were much heralded by the governments that installed them. But they’ve proved far less popular than schemes overseas. Is Australian bike share doomed? Since 2005, public bike share programs have sprung up in cities...

How Does Solar Energy Work?

The most abundant form of energy ever known has always been there. Through the course of human history, the Sun has offered, without cost, its light and heat for the benefit of every living organism on this rock we call Earth. Read the original...

Sea snails show impact of more acidic ocean

LONDON (Reuters) – The shells of some marine snails in the seas around Antarctica are dissolving as the water becomes more acidic, threatening the food chain, a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience said on Sunday. Read the original...

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