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Ehrenreich, a physicist in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, jokes that he understands the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—“his solar system”—but is now being asked to understand a whole other galaxy: the full University...
...somewhat in concert, but different buildings and sections of buildings have different temperatures. The newer buildings hold more heat, and the parts that face south retain solar heat,” Gingo said...
...Eocene epoch 35 million years ago, temperatures plummeted and the Earth's primitive inhabitants endured a cold spell that lasted 100,000 years. The length of that ordeal and what brought it on have long puzzled experts. Various theories to explain it have been put forward--from variations in solar output to changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis--and generally dismissed. Now two scientists, writing in the Journal of Geophysical Research, have proposed a novel idea: the possibility that our planet was once encircled by a huge, Saturn-like ring created by a glancing blow from...
...about their pet projects. Outside the U.N. meeting, a woman dressed in nothing but lettuce leaves and representing People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals handed out flyers while delegates nearby tucked into huge slabs of meat at the Butcher Shop and Grill restaurant. On the pavement outside, Solar Cookers International showed passers-by how to cook with a piece of silver cardboard and a pot. Solar cook Danielle Kahn reminisced about the first world environment conference in Rio de Janeiro 10 years ago. "That was when people really got ideas down on paper," she said...
...agreed that humanity is eating too many fish, and that catches ought to be trimmed in order to sustain stocks. They've agreed, also, that more care ought to be taken in the disposal of hazardous chemicals; more use ought to be made of renewable energy sources such as solar-, wind- and hydro-electricity; and also that it would be a really good idea to try, by the year 2015, to get clean drinking water and sanitation to half of the 2.4 billion people on the planet who currently lack access to either...