Quake In Japan Is Causing A Costly Shift To Fossil Fuels

With some nuclear plants idled, Japan has fired up fossil fuel plants and imported coal, natural gas and oil at great environmental and economic costs.

Quake in Japan Is Causing a Costly Shift to Fossil Fuels

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Video: ‘living Fossil’ Eel Swam At Dawn Of Dinosaur Age

                    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1113211448001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); In an undersea cavern off the coast of Palau, biologists have discovered an eel unlike any other. Called Protoanguilla palau, its last common ancestor with any other living creature swam 200 million years ago. Not only is there nothing like it alive, there’s nothing [...]

Video: ‘Living Fossil’ Eel Swam at Dawn of Dinosaur Age

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Beyond Fossil Fuels: African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power

As small-scale renewable energy becomes cheaper and more reliable, it is providing the first drops of modern power to people far from electricity grids and fuel pipelines.

Beyond Fossil Fuels: African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power

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Beyond Fossil Fuels: Africa’s Rural Poor Begin Harnessing the Sun

As small-scale renewable energy becomes cheaper and more reliable, it is providing the first drops of modern power to people far from electricity grids and fuel pipelines.

Beyond Fossil Fuels: Africa’s Rural Poor Begin Harnessing the Sun

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