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		<title>How Computers Can Learn: For Starters, Chuck the Silicon</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/02/27/how-computers-can-learn-for-starters-chuck-the-silicon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how stupid is your computer? The short answer is that it&#8217;s really, really stupid. The longer answer is that it&#8217;s stupider than a slime mold. The protoplasmic microbe known as the Physarum polycepharum can move from place to place by what&#8217;s known as shuttle streaming, which is a very fancy way of saying, well, oozing — and one of the places it can ooze with surprising ease is through a maze. Put a food source at the beginning and end of a microscopic maze and, after eight hours of trial and error, the organism can change its shape so its front and back ends can both reach the goodies — and by the shortest route possible too. In its own primitive way, through mindless chemical signals that respond only to the presence of nutrient, the slime mold learns — something your computer will never, ever do. Learning has always been what separates the nimble carbon-based information processing system from the rigid — if powerful — silicon one and has made the long-dreamed-of concept of artificial intelligence so elusive. The weakness of computer intelligence is also its central strength: its binary intelligence. No matter how big or powerful the system, all information is stored as nothing more than a series of on-off signals on microtransistors. There&#8217;s no high-charge, low-charge, sort of off, sort of on — a universe of nuance that&#8217;s forever lost on the machine. This is in sharp contrast to the way the synapses behave in the human or animal brain. Each neuron is synaptically connected to thousands of others around it, and the signals that run through them can vary in unlimited ways. They can be sudden and powerful (the house-shaking bam! of the first clap of thunder you hear as a baby) or they can be subtle and repetitive (the signature footfalls of the adults outside your bedroom that you must hear again and again before you distinguish mom&#8217;s from dad&#8217;s from the sitter&#8217;s). We learn instantly or in tiny increments, indelibly or forgettably, and all<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=13699&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Silicon, Hello DNA. The Future of Data Storage?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/01/24/goodbye-silicon-hello-dna-the-future-of-data-storage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronique Greenwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One night a few years ago, two biologists sat in a bar in Hamburg, discussing DNA. Ewan Birney, the associate director of the European Bioinformatics Institute, and Nick Goldman, a research scientist there, were wondering how to handle the tsunami of data flooding the institute, whose job it is to maintain databases of DNA sequences, protein structures, and other biological information that scientists turn up in their research—databases that are growing exponentially, thanks mostly to dropping costs and increased automation. The maintenance of all this data on hard drives was pressing their budget to the breaking point. Being genomicists, they joked that DNA, which is incredibly compact, sturdy, and of course has a rather lengthy history of storing data, would be a better way to go. Joking, however, gave way to fevered napkin-scribbling, and soon, recalls Goldman, “We had to order another beer, and call for more napkins to write on.” Three years later, the results of that bar stool inspiration have been published in Nature, in a paper in which Birney, Goldman and their collaborators report using DNA to store a complete set of Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets, a PDF of the first paper to describe DNA&#8217;s double helix structure, a 26-second mp3 clip from Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s “I Have a Dream” speech, a text file of a compression algorithm, and a JPEG photograph of the institute. You may not be storing your personal data on DNA anytime soon—the process is time-consuming and expensive, and there&#8217;s the small matter of needing a DNA sequencer to open the files—but as the costs of making and sequencing DNA continue to plunge and as computer engineering approaches the limits of just how densely information can be encoded on silicon, such biological data storage be just what&#8217;s needed for institutes and other organizations with massive archival needs. (MORE: What&#8217;s Holding Energy Tech Back? The Infernal Battery) To encode files in DNA, Birney and Goldman started by converting text, image, or audio data into binary code. Then, in several steps using software that Goldman wrote,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=13025&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Street View Goes to Antarctica</title>
		<link>http://lightbox.time.com/2012/07/17/google-street-view-goes-to-antarctica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan D. Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A note to viewers: TIME.com suggests viewing the panorama in full-screen mode. For visitors on a mobile device or tablet, we recommend utilizing our versions optimized for a fully immersive experience: iPAD version &#124; iPHONE version Above: The interior of Shackleton’s Hut demonstrates the host of supplies used in early 20th century Antarctic expeditions—everything from medicine and food to candles and cargo sleds can be found neatly stored inside. You can immerse yourself in all of Google&#8217;s newly released imagery here. Photos: Captain Scott and Captain Shackleton: A 100-year-old expedition<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=9224&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The E-Waste Blight Grows More Dangerous Than Ever</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/11/01/the-e-waste-blight-grows-more-dangerous-than-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing that thrills tech-lovers more than the latest Shiny New Thing. In the first three quarters of 2011 alone, 55 million iPhones were sold—and that was before the release of the 4s this month. That&#8217;s a lot of Shiny New Things. The problem is, Shiny New Things quickly become Familiar Old Things, and nothing seems so discardable as a poky device that no longer runs the latest apps or includes the coolest features. In the U.S. alone, hundreds of millions of old phones, computers and other hardware are junked each year — and that&#8217;s a real problem. It&#8217;s hardly news by now that electronic devices contain all manner of toxic metals including lead, cadmium and mercury. Nor is it a surprise that mountains of this high-tech junk wind up in developing countries, where they are scrounged for raw materials for resale. International accords forbid unregulated shipments of First World e-waste to Third World destinations, but the rules are routinely flouted and a thriving gray market has sprouted up, allowing the junk to travel freely around the globe. Now, a study in Ghana — ground zero in the e-waste mess — reveals how toxic the problem can be. Soil, air and other environmental tests conducted by Ghanaian researcher Atiemo Sampson at a school, church, soccer field and produce market near an open-air e-waste scavenging site found that levels of eight metals — iron, magnesium, copper, zinc, cadmium, chromium, nickel and lead — were up to 50 times higher than in uncontaminated areas. Some of the toxins seep through the soil; more still pour into the air when waste is burned. &#8220;Until now, Ghana has not regulated the importation of e-waste,&#8221; Sampson said in a recent presentation to a U.N.-run multi-disciplinary group called Stop the E-Waste Problem (StEP). &#8220;Rules are only now being incorporated into our national legal framework.&#8221; Ghana is not only an example of how severe the e-waste pile-up is becoming everywhere in the developing world — all the moreso as the commercial arms race among electronic giants escalates,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=7062&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Waste</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://science.time.com/category/waste/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Typhoon Tests Japan&#8217;s Nuclear Resolve</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/07/19/typhoon-tests-japans-nuclear-resolve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Thean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Typhoon Ma-On has been downgraded to a tropical storm. It is expected to move over central Japan today, hitting south of Tokyo before moving out to sea, according to the U.S. Navy. At least one person was reported missing and dozens injured after the storm landed in Japan on Tuesday. The smiling faces of the young Japanese women who took home the World Cup title on Sunday are plastered over hundreds of media outlets across the world, and deservedly so. But just two days after that epic victory, the country was forced to recall an epic tragedy, when Typhoon Ma-On, a tropical storm with a 450 mi. diameter, touched down on the country’s southeastern coast, threatening heavy rain, thunderstorms, flooding and gale-force winds –  just about everything Japan doesn’t need in the wake of the devastating tsunami that struck its coast last spring. The typhoon is moving quickly north- and eastward, with sustained winds and gusts speeding along at 87 and 100 mph respectively. And quite a lot of that predicted rain – over 50mm, or 2 inches – has already hit Shikoku and Honshu islands. It’s still anyone’s guess whether or not the typhoon will lead to another national disaster — the most intense rainfall and strongest convection is still over the open ocean, and convection may be weakening because of warming cloud top temperatures and the movement of dry air. More from TIME: Rebuilding Japan But that doesn’t mean the country shouldn’t be taking precautions: a typhoon like Ma-On could be a huge blow to Japan not just because of the potential destruction that could result, but also through the looming threat, again, to the country&#8217;s nuclear infrastructure.  It was a tsunami that wiped crippled the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station and a typhoon can  produce surges of water that are equally damaging. For now, it looks like Japan is taking at least some steps to steel itself for the possible foot of rain Ma-On could bring: Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) began installing a cover on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=5974&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Excited Should We Be About China&#8217;s Green Energy?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/04/28/how-excited-should-we-be-about-chinas-green-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting debate showed up in my Twitter feed today. A few followers of China’s green energy policies have taken climate skeptic Bjorn Lomborg’s recent opinion piece in the Washington Post to task for using some information that undersells what China has accomplished. I hadn’t read Lomborg’s article, which ran on April 21, but it tackles an issue I’ve often wondered about myself – how much of China’s much-hyped investment in green technology is being put into action? His conclusion is that China’s “green success story” is not all that it’s cracked up to be, in part because most Chinese investment in clean energy goes to manufacturing it for western nations that can only afford it with their own governments&#8217; subsides. He writes that the domestic Chinese production there is is thin, citing, in the case of wind power, a “2008 Citigroup analysis found that about one-third of China’s wind power assets were not in use.” Lomborg also writes that the oft-lauded goal of having 11.4% of domestic energy come from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2015 is somewhat misleading: At best, this is a promise to slide backward merely slowly. Today, China gets 13 percent of its energy from non-fossil fuels, particularly biomass and hydropower, with a little nuclear energy and a minuscule amount of solar and wind power. Two rebukes to the article came to my attention this afternoon. (There may certainly be more out there, and more on top of that from his supporters.) Barbara Finamore, who is the country director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, contends that certain figures that Lomborg used were outdated, and did not correctly portray what’s happening in the country particularly in regard to wind power. In a letter to the editor in the Post, she writes: In 2010, China invested $45 billion in wind power (more than the entire U.S. clean-energy economy), which led to 17 gigawatts of new installations (more than three times that installed by the United States). By 2010, 31 out of 41 gigawatts of national wind installations were<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=4573&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the Ice in Your Drink is Imperiling the Planet</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/04/14/how-the-ice-in-your-drink-is-imperiling-the-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to save the Earth? Easy, just buy a couple of ice trays. To the long list of human inventions that are wrecking global climate—the internal combustion engine, the industrial era factory—add the automatic ice maker. Climate modelers have long known that households are far bigger contributors to global warming than most laypeople realize. For all the blame tailpipe emissions take for escalating  temperatures, homes and office buildings are actually the single largest contributor to greenhouse gasses. One key reason is the 100-plus million refrigerators in America&#8217;s 111 million households. According to the Department of Energy, the standard fridge sucks up about 8% of the electricity used by all homes—a pretty big share given the dozens of big and small appliances and electronics that are also drawing juice. That energy gluttony has always made refrigerators prime targets for design improvements and most of the big manufacturers have made real progress in squeezing every last bit of efficiency out of their machines—especially since they know that cash-strapped consumers are paying closer attention than ever to energy-consumption ratings before making their purchasing decisions. The problem is, those ratings are not always terribly precise. In general, refrigerators will simply get a gross energy-use score, without anyone examining just which components in the overall machine are driving the numbers up or down. Ice makers have thus long gotten a pass, but analysts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently decided to give them a closer look—and they got a surprise when they did. According to the just-released findings, the average ice maker in the average fridge increases energy consumption by 12% to  20%—a whole lot of juice for an appliance that is in operation 24 hours a day from the moment you first plug it in till the moment you replace it a decade or more later. The reason that number was so unexpected was that the large majority of refrigerators are  refrigerator-freezer combinations anyway—which means they&#8217;re freezing water and making ice no matter what. So why should the simple business<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=4440&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Geothermal: A More Grounded Power Source for Japan?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/04/13/geothermal-a-more-grounded-power-source-for-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, over 17,000 people took to the streets of Tokyo to let their government know they’ve had it with nuclear power. It was an unusual display of mass disgruntlement in the Japanese capital, but these are unusual times. Residents walked through the neighborhood of Koenji – reportedly the birthplace of Japanese punk – with dogs and children in tow, shouting out against the radiation and other bad news that have been spewing forth from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since it was crippled in the March 11 earthquake. One man carried a printed sign that read “We are killed now by ATOMIC ENERGY MAFIA!” On a more constructive note, another bore the message “Yes We Can Change to Clean Energy.” “I don&#8217;t want nuclear power to be what we hand onto the next generation,” said Leona Yuyama, a 36-year-old mother who was marching with all of her four young children. “When I look at [my kids’] faces everyday, I keep thinking about the dangers of nuclear power and what they will have to face in the future.” Like several other demonstrators around her, Yuyama is in favor of Japan considering its other energy options. “We need to switch to geothermal power.” (See TIME&#8217;s full coverage of the Japan quake.) Could the tectonic activity that caused today’s crisis in Japan be part of making sure it doesn’t happen again? Located on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” human inhabitants of the northerly archipelago have always tapped into the hot subterranean water to build baths and heating systems for homes and agriculture. Japan has, in fact, been using more direct geothermal heat than any other nation for centuries. Despite its small size, it has the third largest geothermal energy potential in the world after the U.S. and Indonesia. But in terms of harnessing that heat and turning it into power, Japan only ranks 8th, after countries with drastically smaller populations, like Iceland and New Zealand. Today, Japan only generates about .1% of its electricity in 19 geothermal energy plants, many of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=4404&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Japan, Vending Machines to Charge Electric Cars</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/03/09/in-japan-vending-machines-to-charge-electric-cars-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, Japanese vending machines got a bad wrap awhile back for selling schoolgirls&#8217; underwear, but that was then. If you&#8217;ve been to Tokyo recently, you know and love the machines&#8217; for their convenience and ingenuity. For example, unlike their un-evolved counterparts in most of the world, Japanese vending machines have a couple of rows dedicated to hot drinks in winter — tea, coffee, etc. A small, compact can of hot lemon drink in December serves as both a pocketwarmer and a shot of sugar to keep you going until the next soba stand. Genius! Now AFP reports there&#8217;s an even better reason to cheer the ubiquitous sentinel of the Japanese street corner: Soon, they&#8217;ll be able to charge your electric car too. On Monday, a consortium of Japanese companies announced they would be partnering up to install 10,000 electric chargers at vending machine sites by the end of the year. Eventually, says vending machine manufacturer Forking Co., the machines themselves might incorporate the chargers. Forking currently owns over one million vending machines across Japan. The proposal could help overcome &#8220;range anxiety&#8221; in Japan — the consumer concern that electric cars can&#8217;t go far enough on a charge. (Last year, GM, which manufacturers the plug-in hybrid Volt, announced it was trying to trademark the term.) Electric cars rely on expensive batteries and are often faulted for their short driving range. To help assuage this concern, electric car makers Toyota and Nissan announced a plan last year to help standardize recharging stations in Japan, with the eventual goal of creating an international standard. In January, Mazda announced it would join in the electric race, and have its own battery-powered vehicle on the Japanese market by 2012. In the U.S., Ford has also announced its lineup of electric vehicles. In his State of the Union, Obama called on the U.S. to be the first nation to put one million electric cars on the road by 2015. But so far, sales remain low. According to Engadget, only 281 Chevy Volts and 67 Nissan Leafs<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=4010&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released in Malaysian Forest</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2011/01/28/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-released-in-malaysian-forest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A government-run institute in Malaysia announced this week that it had released 6000 genetically modified mosquitoes into an uninhabited patch of forest in December to combat dengue fever. The experiment, which is now over, was aimed at controlling the local mosquito population by having altered male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes mate with wild female mosquitoes, which carry the disease. The males were engineered so that the females they impregnated would either not have offspring, or have offspring with shorter lives. Malaysian officials told the AP that it was the first experiment of its kind in Asia. But genetically modified insects have been released into nature before. In the Cayman Islands, GM mosquitoes were released last year with the same goal of reducing the local population (it seemed to work), and in 2006, the U.S. released GM pink bollworms, a common cotton pest, with marker genes in the first use of GM insects in a plant pest control program. The potential benefits of controlling disease through GM insects are big. Malaria, for which there is no known vaccine, kills at least a million people each year, mostly in Asia and Africa. In some countries where transmission levels are high, the mosquito-born disease is estimated to cost up to 1.3% of GDP annually. Crop and livestock pests, too, have enormous economic impacts. (See pictures from TIME on the global fight against malaria.) The sometimes-fatal dengue fever, which the Malaysia experiment was designed to target, infects between 50 to 100 million people every year. Though it&#8217;s not as dangerous as malaria, it&#8217;s been on the rise in recent years; the number of dengue related deaths in Malaysia in 2010 was up over 50% from the year before. Areas where dengue is present often have to deal with regular, noxious fumigations of their neighborhoods. The GM option offers one alternative. This is a good summary of how the method works from the UK&#8217;s Parliamentary Office of Science &#38; Technology. (No GM insects have been approved for release in the EU.) Population suppression is a method<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=3454&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate: Some Last Thoughts on the Cancún Summit</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/12/13/climate-some-last-thoughts-on-the-cancun-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back from Cancún, and I miss the weather there, if not the all-night hours of the assignment. You can read a longer version of my analysis of the conference over here, which includes some details on the last-minute drama as Bolivia tried to block adoption of the Cancún Agreements, only to be deftly overruled by Mexico. Juliet Eilperin and William Booth of the Washington Post have a good analysis of the summit, as does Richard Black of the BBC and Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones. Incidentally, it was remarkable—or perhaps not—how much smaller the media contingent was for Cancún compared to last year&#8217;s Copenhagen Summit, especially from the U.S., although the cooler spotlight may have actually helped diplomats get something done. NGOs were pretty happy in the immediate wake of the agreements—see Jake Schmidt of the Natural Resources Defense Council—although that was partially the result of the very low expectations going into the meeting, and a little bit of sleep deprivation. (When Bolivian Ambassador Pablo Solon started filibustering Friday night, we were all preparing ourselves for the talks to go another 24 hours.) As Schmidt writes, the meeting did create the foundation for a new era of climate diplomacy, one where major developing nations are beginning to recognize their need to contribute to carbon cutting. It was also welcome to see India play a major role as a mediator between the U.S. and China, with Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh emerging as a key figure. As Fiona Harvey of the Financial Times writes today, Cancún did represent real progress. Still, the hardest parts of building a binding climate agreement were punted into the future, and there&#8217;s no guarantee they&#8217;ll be solved yet. Shadowing the talks was the unacknowledged fact that the U.S. is going backwards on climate and energy, with no chance of legislation and a Republican House whose science committee will be led by an 87-year-old who isn&#8217;t sure whether we face global warming or &#8220;global freezing.&#8221; The Cancún Agreements still contain talk of $100 billion in climate<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2969&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Technology: Google Makes the Earth—and the Planet&#8217;s Forests—Searchable</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/12/02/technology-google-makes-the-earth%e2%80%94and-the-planets-forests%e2%80%94searchable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more I write about environmental issues, the more I like writing about technology. Maybe that&#8217;s because while reporting on the decline of the environment can be, frankly, depressing (the naturalist Lois Crisler once remarked of the inextricable link between &#8220;love [of the earth] and despair&#8221;), while technology is undeniably optimistic, one new and better product rolling off the line after the last. More and more, however, I find the two areas—the environment and technology—overlapping. That&#8217;s obvious in fields like renewable energy, where scientists in government labs and private start-ups are searching for the next great way to create clean and abundant power. But computers and the Internet are now providing better ways to understand the environment around us—and ultimately protect it. The Google Earth app—besides allowing us to spy on our childhood home—lets us see our planet as only the astronauts have ever seen it. And when the oceanographer Sylvia Earle noted that something was missing from Google Earth—namely, the water—the company added the ability to look into the oceans and seas on our watery world. Now Google is taking its Earth app a step forward. At the U.N. climate summit in Cancun this morning, the company&#8217;s philanthropic arm Google.org launched the Google Earth Engine, a new technology platform that will enable global monitoring of change in the planet&#8217;s environment. Google has tapped a quarter-century of satellite images provided by Landsat, which includes most of the developing world, along with data including MODIS, a major weather tracking project. As the project&#8217;s chief engineer Rebecca Moore told Juliet Elperin of the Washington Post, the Earth Engine provides &#8220;a living, breathing model of the earth with all of the data and analysis that&#8217;s available.&#8221; It&#8217;s that last part that&#8217;s particularly important. The data Earth Engine will tap isn&#8217;t new, but Google will make it far more accessible and far more searchable than it has ever before. That will be a major boon for environmental researchers, for whom data is lifeblood. And it&#8217;s particularly important for projects on forestry and on preventing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2874&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Rice (You Heard Me) Can Save the World</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/11/10/how-rice-you-heard-me-can-save-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another blueprint for the Green Green Revolution was announced today at the 3rd International Rice Congress, and this time it’s all about — you guessed it — rice. Well, according to rice types anyway (the corn guys might have a different theory). But the scientists that unveiled the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP), a plan for revolutionizing the world’s rice crops, make a convincing case. The thing you need to know about rice is that more than half the world relies on it every day. The other thing you need to know is that unlike other staple crops like corn, rice is still cultivated by millions of small-scale farmers. That means that both rice production and its consumption are two the biggest economic activities on the planet. The fact that 90% of the world’s rice crop comes from Asia, home to some of largest swaths of poverty on earth, indicates that there is some major room for improvement in the way that rice is grown. And that’s exactly how the folks at GRiSP see it: they estimate their plans to improve rice production methods will lift 70 million people out of poverty in the next decade, and a total of 150 million out of poverty by 2035. How? By focusing on improving the technology used to grow rice, both production costs and prices will fall, says Robert Zeigler, director of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), a GRiSP partner. “The major way that rice research can help lift people out of poverty is to reduce the price of rice,” says Zeigler. “The majority of the world’s poor depend on it. But if you just lower the price, you don’t want to condemn your farmers to poverty. So you need to lower production cost simultaneously.” The fundamental change that Zeigler and his colleagues are working toward is increasing rice yields, which, after the improvements of the first Green Revolution, have plateaued. To do that, scientists are working to develop new rice varieties tailored to farmers’ particular environments (flood prone, drought prone,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2545&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vacationing in Space? The Planet Could Pay</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/10/22/vacationing-in-space-the-planet-could-pay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To hear Richard Branson tell it, your next vacation will be in space. On Friday, Branson, the swashbuckling CEO of Virgin Airlines and the newer Virgin Galactic,  cut the ribbon on a  2-mi. (3.2 km) runway in La Cruces, N.M., which will be used in as little as 18 months, he promises, to begin carrying paying tourists into suborbital space. &#8220;This is the beginning of the second space age,&#8221; he said. Sounds like fun! But there are a few small problems, not the least being that the technology is unproven, even a small malfunction could kill you and in the event that you do come back in one piece, your 15-minute vacation would have cost you a minimum of $200,000. Now, on the very day of Branson&#8217;s grand unveiling, add one more reason not to get too carried away by the talk of a coming boom in space tourism: according to a new study by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) all the rocketing around could make the atmospheric an even bigger mess than it is today. Launching rockets can be either a very, very dirty business or a pretty clean one, depending on the kind of fuel you use. The shuttle&#8217;s solid boosters are filled with a rubbery mix made up of ammonium perchlorate, aluminum, iron oxide, epoxy and a polymer bonding agent. If you think setting all that on fire would produce some nasty exhaust, you&#8217;re right. The Saturn V moon rockets used a mix of kerosene and liquid oxygen in their first stages, which produced it&#8217;s own air-fouling smoke. The second and third stages, however, were fueled with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, releasing mostly flame and steam. The rockets that would be used for launching tourists on suborbital missions would be filled with some kind of hydrocarbon fuel which, like the kerosene in the Saturn V, would act as a pollutant. (See photos of the labor of space exploration) To conduct its calculations on the atmospheric impact of recreational rocketry, the AGU proceeded on the assumption that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2319&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Rare Earths: Looking for a Way out From Under a Monopoly</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/10/18/rare-earths-looking-for-a-way-out-from-under-a-chinese-monopoly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Last month, after China and Japan locked horns over Tokyo’s arrest of a Chinese fishing captain whose boat collided with the Japanese Coast Guard, shipments of rare earths from China to Japan started to dry up at over 30 different Japanese companies. Since then, Beijing has stuck to its story – that the there is no official export ban in place and that any disruption to Japan has been market driven. Meanwhile, Japan and the U.S. are considering filing an embargo case over the matter to the WTO, as Bryan wrote about here last week. Rare earths are a collection of 17 not-so-rare elements used to manufacture different parts of hybrid cars, mobile phones, missiles and wind turbines. They&#8217;re used in the glossy screen on your flat screen and your iPad — technologies that weren&#8217;t exactly a big deal 20 years ago when China got into the business. As other global players gradually left the dirty, expensive industry, China came to produce over 90% of the current global market of the minerals, which, according to the WTO, has grown at an annual rate of about 8% to 11% over the last decade, spiking in the last year. Many in the U.S., as the New York Times wrote last week, were already unhappy about China’s policy on rare earths since 2006 when Beijing imposed quotas and taxes on their export. Now they&#8217;re really unhappy. For many, the shipment cuts to Japan, the world’s largest rare-earth importer, has spelled opportunity. Japanese companies are already looking into new mining opportunities in Mongolia and Kazahkstan. On Saturday, Germany extended a hand and said Berlin would team up with Tokyo to look for new rare earth production opportunities in other places where the minerals are found, like Namibia, Mongolia and the U.S. (They are actually pretty abundant, as it turns out.) Earlier this year, Colorado-based Molycorp Minerals LLC also announced plans to start back up with its operations at Mountain Pass mine, once the largest producer of rare earths, which closed up shop<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=2196&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bjorn Lomborg, Climate Skeptic, Calls for Massive Global Warming Investment</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/08/31/bjorn-lomborg-climate-skeptic-calls-for-massive-global-warming-investment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Guardian reported that Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish scientist with the shock of blond hair who made a name for himself decrying the world’s hysteria about climate change, makes a surprising claim in his upcoming book – that confronting climate change should be a global priority, and that a $100 billion per year investment could solve the crisis by the end of the century. That sounds a little counterintuitive coming from the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming. But Lomborg, who was on the TIME 100 list of the world&#8217;s most influential people in 2004, has never said that global warming is a hoax, as have some of the conservative voices his views have been aligned with. What Lomborg has argued is that while climate change is real, it is not the catastrophe it has been depicted by some scientists to be, and the world would be better off adapting to it than continuing to spend money on cutting carbon emissions while ignoring other high global priorities, like finding a cure for malaria or ending hunger. In a 2007 interview after his second book came out, Lomborg told TIME: Obviously, in a perfect world we should fix all problems. We should fix climate change, and, preferably, tomorrow. We should also stop HIV/AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, and give clean water and sanitation to everyone, stop all civil wars. There are a lot of things in principle we should do, and I agree with all of those. But, of course, we don&#8217;t. We&#8217;ve had most of these problems for 50 years and we haven&#8217;t fixed all of them. It seems reasonable to me to have a conversation: If we don&#8217;t fix all problems tomorrow, can we at least talk about where we could do the most good first? Not ignoring the fact we should be doing all these things — but since we aren&#8217;t, shouldn&#8217;t we have a conversation about whether we can do lots of good or a little good? (Watch video<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=1703&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Cheap Couches, Swedish Meatballs, and Geothermal Heat</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/08/25/of-cheap-couches-swedish-meatballs-and-geothermal-heat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, IKEA. Always going that extra kilometer. As if the affordable bedside tables and mid-store meatballs just when we are getting hungry (you always know!) weren&#8217;t enough, the world&#8217;s favorite Swedish home furnisher is now trying to give America a gentle shove into the age of renewable energy. IKEA is working with U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to regulate ambient temperature inside its new 415,000-square-foot, two-level retail store in Denver, slated to open next year, with geothermal heat pumps. With whaaa? While things on the surface in Colorado get really hot in summer, and really cold in winter, just a few hundred feet underground things stay a nice, moderate temperature. The system will use 130 500-ft holes to send liquid down to capture that perfect temperature, and run it back up to through a pipe system that will interact with the in-store air, cooling it down, or heating it up, depending on the season. Erin Anderson, a senior geothermal analyst at NREL explains on the NREL web site: &#8220;It&#8217;s the same way your refrigerator works,&#8221; with a compressor to extract the heat, Anderson said. &#8220;You put a hot chicken in the fridge, and three hours later it&#8217;s cool. But the back of the fridge is hot. The refrigerator is taking the hot from the food and rejecting it to the outside.&#8221; The EPA says geothermal heat pump systems reduce energy consumption and emissions up to 72% compared to conventional heating and air conditioning systems. They are also cheaper over time: like all geothermal projects, the front-end costs are high, but once the system is built, it&#8217;s inexpensive to run.  IKEA, which is already doing this in Sweden, and NREL have agreed to make the engineering of the project available to the public so that other big commercial spaces in the U.S. and elsewhere can look at doing the same thing. IKEA takes its impact as a global big box store seriously. The Stockholm-based corporation does, after all, peddle a lot of cheap goods that don&#8217;t last<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=1593&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Clean Energy Transition</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/08/13/the-clean-energy-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little light post for weekend reading. Science magazine has published a special news section on the alternative energy challenge, casting a sober eye on the difficulties—and oppourunities—of leaving behind the age of fossil fuels and scaling up green power. Usually Science studies are behind a paywall (hmm, sounds familiar), but the magazine is making these stories freely accessible until August 27. Take the time to check them out, especially Richard Kerr&#8217;s piece on why it will be so difficult to dislodge fossil fuel: Wind turbines dot ridges, distillers turn farmers&#8217; corn into ethanol by the billions of liters, and solar panels sprout on roofs. The energy revolution that will bring us clean, secure energy is under way, sort of. Never has the world so self-consciously tried to move toward new sources of energy. But the history of past major energy transitions—from wood to coal, and from coal to oil and gas—suggests that it will be a long, tough road to scaling up alternatives to fossil fuels that don&#8217;t stoke greenhouse warming. It will be a tough road. All the more reason to stop the delay and start moving forward.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=1435&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Europe-based Fusion Project Draws Heat Over Funding</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/07/13/european-fusion-project-draws-heat-over-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eben Harrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is probably no more sorry field of clean energy research than fusion. The quest to harness the power of the sun—without carbon emissions—has long attracted quixotic dreamers, amateur fusioneers and straight hucksters. But by its own, low standards, fusion research is in a sorry state. The only large, serious, potentially viable project—the multinational International Thermonuclear Experimental Research Reactor (Iter)  in France—has been beset by budgeting issues since it was first conceived at a Geneva summit in 1985. Facing another cash crisis, EU member states decided yesterday that they will have to dip into the European Union&#8217;s budget—including money usually used to finance other scientific research—to keep the project going. The southern France-based machine is designed to prove the concept that fusing hydrogen nuclei can be a source of power: so far, fusion has only been achieved by putting far more energy into a system than the fusion itself produces. At an Agriculture and Fish Council meeting on 12 July, member states agreed to inject an extra 1.4 billion euros to cover a shortfall in building costs in 2012-13. They want the funds to come from a variety of sources within the existing Brussels budget, including from a research budget called the Framework Programme 7. According to nature.com, &#8220;The proposal has alarmed scientists, who say that it will rob researchers of vital funds at a time when governments are planning to scale back domestic research budgets in response to the global economic downturn. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a small catastrophe in the present situation,&#8221;  Helga Nowotny, the president of the European Research Council, which funds research across Europe, told nature.com. &#8220;It&#8217;s bad for European research.&#8221; Although over-budget, Iter&#8217;s biggest challenge since its inception has been pork-barrel politics. It is a collaboration between the EU, the US, Russia, Japan, China, India and South Korea. For years, construction was delayed by squabbling over where the facility should be located—and hence which country would benefit most of the massive project. (After a stand-off between Japan and France, Japan blinked.) But the U.S. has always<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=850&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Under Pressure to Open Up on China Supply Chain</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2010/06/30/ngos-press-apple-to-open-up-about-china-supply-chain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental NGOs in China and the U.S. are trying to redirect the world&#8217;s fixation on the new iPhone 4 to the environmental records of the factories where it and other mobile phones and computers are built in China. In particular, the groups have been revving up pressure on Apple to answer questions about pollution regulation across its supply chain, calling for the U.S. company and its peers to be more transparent about potential oversight at its suppliers’ factories in China. The calls come on the heels of an April report released by a consortium of 34 environmental NGOs that found several Chinese factories linked to major global IT brands were responsible for heavy metal contamination in their vicinity. After releasing the report, the group asked 29 major brands, including Apple and Vodafone, to provide more information about the Chinese facilities where their products are made. As of June 23, Apple was one of 8 companies who had not responded. The efforts of Green Choice Alliance, the name that the group of NGOs goes under, to draw attention to the IT industry’s supply chain follows a year of bad news in the department of depressing-fallout-from-China&#8217;s-breakneck-economic-growth. In 2009, back-to-back cases of heavy metal poisoning were reported throughout China, in which children seemed to be disproportionately affected. In one month alone, some 2000 cases of children suffering from lead poisoning were reported in Hunan, Yuannan, and Shaanxi provinces, and more have continued to come out this year. Though those cases were by no means all tied to IT factories, production of mobile phone batteries and printed circuit board (PCB) are both associated with the potentially harmful lead and cadmium. In a sector pushing to do more and more business for companies that want cheaper and cheaper products, it&#8217;s not hard to see how shortcuts might be taken leading to environmental oversight and heavy metal biproducts ending up in the soil or water sources of communities where the factories are located. Indeed, the April report found that printed circuit board maker Huizhou Merix Printed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=606&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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