May 31 President Bush Urges Nations to Set Emissions Targets By Admin, PBS News Hour President Bush, in a counter-offer to European leaders, said Thursday that 15 nations with the world's largest economies should set common targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2008. Continue reading
May 31 Nanotechnology Tapped to Boost Hybrid Car Efficiency By PBS News Hour A day after President Bush instructed his Cabinet to develop a plan to improve fuel efficiency in cars and trucks, Nissan opened a facility to explore cutting-edge science like nanotechnology in its quest for environmentally friendly vehicles. Continue reading
May 24 Regulatory Questions Continue to Plague Cape Wind Project By PBS News Hour For six years, Cape Wind -- a proposed 130 turbine wind energy project in Nantucket Sound -- has polarized residents of Cape Cod and mobilized advocacy groups both for and against what would be the nation's first offshore wind energy… Continue reading
May 21 Watch India Works to Shield Traditional Knowledge from Modern Patents A new digital library in India is safeguarding ancient knowledge from patents, which can force royalty payments for knowledge that is common in that part of the world. NewsHour correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from New Delhi. Continue watching
May 17 New Antarctic Marine Species Surprise Scientists By PBS News Hour An international team of researchers has found more than 700 new species in the extreme depths of Antarctica's Weddell Sea, surprising scientists who had thought the region was largely devoid of life. Continue reading
May 16 Watch Scientists, Students Study Space Storms in THEMIS Project High school students and teachers in Alaska are helping NASA scientists collect data for a mission that aims to learn more about the space weather that causes the aurora borealis, or northern lights. Continue watching
May 10 Watch Professor Touts Fossil Fuel Alternatives In the last installment of a series on climate change, a New York University physics professor who advocates carbon-free energy explains his perspective on wind power, solar fission and other technologies. Continue watching
May 10 Watch Collapse of Overpass in California Becomes Lesson in Construction An overpass near the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge collapsed last month after a gasoline truck crashed into a guardrail and burst into flames. For an engineering professor, the incident has turned into a lesson for building safer structures. Continue watching
May 07 Watch Intel Works on Faster Computer Chip Technology Intel's new computer chip, due out later this year, uses hafnium rather than silicon in its transistors. This innovation will double the number of transistors that can fit on a chip, Intel says, leading to faster and more powerful computers. Continue watching
May 04 U.N. Panel Outlines Plan to Reduce Global Warming By Admin, PBS News Hour The world needs to significantly change its use of energy resources and cut greenhouse gas emissions in order to stem rising global temperatures, according to a U.N. climate report issued Friday. Continue reading