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Royal Caribbean's new "green" mega-liner still burns the world's dirtiest fuel. Can the cruise industry clean up its act? Table of Contents | Digital Edition
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Into the Wild Green Yonder
By Jeff Turrentine | From the Mag
May 23, 2012: Algae-derived biofuel -- already powering some planes and helicopters -- offers a cleaner, renewable alternative to petroleum. Will its partisan critics give it a chance to fly? (0) Comments
Bruce Stutz
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Sturgeon: Mysterious Creature of the Deep
Laura Wright Treadway
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Pure Chemistry: How to Make Things That Won't Kill Us
Alan Burdick
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Electric Avenue
Bruce Barcott
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Grolar Bears and Narlugas: Rise of the Arctic Hybrids
Laura Fraser
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Is Your Shampoo Making You Fat?
Jeff Greenwald
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This Is Your Brain on the Ocean
Electric Avenue
By Alan Burdick | The Synthesist
May 25, 2012: What if the future of the car wasn't just about longer-lived batteries? Could electrified roads be the key? (0) Comments
INFOGRAPHIC: What a Blind Scientist Sees
By Rose Eveleth, Susan Freinkel | From the Mag
May 23, 2012: Paleontologist Geerat Vermeij studies shells only with his fingertips, but he can trace eons in the minutest of details. Here's how. (0) Comments
How Cool is That?
By David Biello | From the Mag
May 23, 2012: Every Google search or Amazon purchase consumes power. Now Norwegian engineers hope to build the world's biggest, most energy-efficient data center -- hundreds of feet underground. (0) Comments
VIDEO: Algae As Fuel
By The Editors | multimedia
May 22, 2012: A video explains how algae can be made into fuel. (0) Comments
Avenge This! Five Dastardly Supervillain Plots to Wreak Havoc on the Environment
By Dave Levitan | photo gallery
May 7, 2012: Turns out the forces of comic book evil are often trying to take over the world ... by polluting it. (0) Comments
Wild Weather: Finally, a Climate Change Wake-Up Call
By Bill McKibben | onearth blog
May 4, 2012: The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running on August 28, 2011. And yet the evidence was all around: sand... read more > (1) Comments
Humanity Has a Spokesman and It's Jim Hansen
By Michael Lemonick | onearth blog
April 9, 2012: After Al Gore, James Hansen is probably the man climate skeptics most love to hate. Unlike Gore, Hansen is an actual scientist, at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York (it’s located above the restaurant... read more > (0) Comments
FDA Must Decide This Week on BPA Ban
By Barry Estabrook | politics of the plate
March 26, 2012: You almost certainly have BPA in your bloodstream -- nine out of ten Americans do, according to government tests. It’s also in some of the places most likely to affect the most vulnerable among us: studies have found BPA in... read more > (3) Comments
Number Cruncher
By Bruce Barcott | Q&A
March 21, 2012: It's not easy to compare the value of a job on a oil rig and the value of an acre of eelgrass. Mary Ruckelshaus thinks she may have a way of doing just that. (0) Comments
Hit Send, Save Lives
By Alan Burdick | The Synthesist
March 19, 2012: The data trail from our cell phones contains a treasure trove of digital information. Some of it could be lifesaving. (0) Comments
VIDEO: My TED Talk on Industrial Scars -- and How to Heal Them
By J Henry Fair | multimedia
March 14, 2012: An aerial photographer finds beauty in the carvings and blotches industry makes of our planet and discusses how we can remedy them. (0) Comments
Is Spring Springing Early? Watching the World Go Round with Henry Thoreau
By David Gessner | wild life
March 12, 2012: This morning a Carolina wren is sitting deep in a nest made of pine needles above the window inside the writing shack where I am typing this. A hundred feet in front of me a mute swan has built a much larger nest. Meanwhile... read more > (5) Comments