Science+In+the+News

= Science in the news =

8/16/10 The Sun appears to be active again with more solar storms. How can we prepare ourselves? [|The Sun Also Surprises]

8/16/10 Pakistan floods are a sign of an incipient water shortage [|Drowning Today; Parched Tomorrow]

8/15/10 (video) As mountaintop removal mining has become increasingly controversial across Appalachia, the debate over the fate of Coal River Mountain has become something of a symbolic line in the sand. [|A Fight for a Mountaintop]

8/15/10 Five years ago, the leaders of this sun-scorched, wind-swept nation made a bet: To reduce [|Portugal]’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, they embarked on an array of ambitious renewable energy projects — primarily harnessing the country’s wind and hydropower, but also its sunlight and ocean waves. [|Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover]