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Beneficial Biofuels — The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma

Published: July 17th, 2009
Last revised: January 8th, 2010

Estuaries support most US seafood

Published: May 19th, 2009
Last revised: May 16th, 2010

Increased salinity is a danger to blue crabs

Published: May 19th, 2009
Last revised: July 18th, 2010

Cellulosic biofuel should take less fossil fuel to make than corn ethanol

Published: January 28th, 2009
Last revised: July 19th, 2010

Growing corn for ethanol may lead to increased CO2 emissions from clearing land

Published: January 28th, 2009
Last revised: May 16th, 2010

About a third of the 2009 US corn crop became ethanol

Published: January 28th, 2009
Last revised: May 16th, 2010

Farming new land can release lots of CO2 into the atmosphere

Published: January 28th, 2009
Last revised: July 17th, 2010

Farming fuel crops may drive far-off deforestation and CO2 release

Published: January 28th, 2009
Last revised: July 17th, 2010

News, Blogs & Features

May 18th, 2013 - Clouds ‘Cool Earth Less Than Once Thought’
May 18th, 2013 - Tornadoes Resume; Drought Divides; Fish on the Move
May 17th, 2013 - Weather Service to Add Major Might to Computing Power
May 17th, 2013 - The U.S.: A Nation Divided By Drought
May 16th, 2013 - Study: 97 percent Agreement on Manmade Global Warming

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Envisioning Ice Loss

Greenland lost an average of 577 billion tons of ice per year from 2004-2007. But just how much is that?