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...participates in schemes to offset its carbon emissions, supporting Australian solar-power and water-saving projects. Bending sees her well-made lines-typically featuring funky, retro-style patterns-as an antidote to the big, cheap fashion chains. "If something feels good, is made well and is good for the planet," she asks, "why would you throw it away?" See more at birdtextile.com...
...turn global warming off, at least not anytime soon. The momentum of the climate system--carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for decades, while oceans store heat for centuries--ensures that no matter how much humanity cuts greenhouse-gas emissions, our previous emissions will keep warming the planet for decades. Even if we were to magically stop all emissions today, "temperatures will keep rising, and all the impacts will keep changing for about 25 years," says Sir David King, chief science adviser to the British government. So while we strive to green our economies, we must also mount a major...
...original goal is to create a free encylopedia for every person on the planet in their own language. We're doing well if we look at the languages of Europe, and Chinese and Japanese, but not as well in others. Some Indian languages have started to take off on different projects that are growing 10% per month or better. We have a few that are just over 10,000 articles and a whole group of them that are between 3,000 and 5,000 articles. I've been to India three times in the last 9 months. The communities...
...more important question is a scientific one. We need to ask if adding a new gene to every mosquito on the planet will have negative consequences that outweigh the decreased transmission of malaria. The short answer is that we don’t know—we need more research and larger-scale experiments—though we do have a little experience in wholesale genetic modifcations...
...forecast had to be hastily revised last week, when officials discovered that a computer glitch had thrown off the prediction. As programming errors go, this was just slightly less catastrophic than the NASA mistake that caused the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter to take a header into the Red Planet in 1999. Chastened officials apologized on national TV, and changed the forecast to March...