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Latest News The all-new VW Beetle, due to launch at next year’s Detroit motor show, will be a "radical design", according to company sources. Sources have told Autocar that VW hasn’t gone down the Mini route by just tweaking the car’s styling. See Autocar.co.uk's artist's impression of the next ... — full article at autocar.co.uk

Levels of air pollutants have exceeded the norm — full article at bbc.co.uk

Feed-in tariffs (FITs) are responsible for 75 percent of all solar photovoltaic (PV) and 45 percent of all wind development worldwide, according to a new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), reports Wind-Works.com. The report provides a best practices design guideline ... — full article at environmentalleader.com

LISBON — 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 ... — full article at www10.nytimes.com

BBC: Global warming is cutting rice yields in many parts of Asia, according to research, with more declines to come. Yields have fallen by 10-20% over the last 25 years in some locations. The group of mainly US-based scientists studied records from 227 farms in six important rice-producing ... — full article at bbc.co.uk

The power output of solar panels can be boosted by 10 percent just by applying a big transparent sticker to the front. Developed by a small startup called Genie Lens Technologies , the sticker is a polymer film embossed with microstructures that bend incoming sunlight. The result: the active ... — full article at technologyreview.com

OCULUS Landscape Architecture — full article at oculus.com.au

We’re hot as hell and we’re not going to take it any more — full article at grist.org

Russia has recently seen the longest unprecedented heat wave for at least one thousand years, the head of the Russian Meteorological Center said on Monday. Wildfires continue to rage across much of the central part of European Russia as the country experiences a heat wave, with temperatures of ... — full article at en.rian.ru

The Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010 brought temperatures of 37 °C (99 °F) to Moscow today, and smog and smoke from wildfires blanketed the city for a sixth straight day. Air pollution levels were 2 - 3 times the maximum safe level today, and peaked on Saturday, when when carbon monoxide hit 6.5 ... — full article at wunderground.com

Response: The first thing I think when I read "1934 was not the hottest year globally, only in the US" is that, well, actually, it's statistically indistinguishable from 1998 and 2006 and a USHCN v2 adjustment actually put 1998 and 2006 above 1934 . So it takes a great act of discipline to not ... — full article at skepticalscience.com

1 day ago BONN, Germany The new climate change treaty under negotiation for the past 2 1/2 years begins with a brief document called "A Shared Vision." The problem is, there isn't one. The latest round of talks that concluded Friday showed that the 194 negotiating countries have failed to even ... — full article at google.com

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Is there an upside to high gas prices? If you’re a bicycle retailer, there can be—particularly in the service department. Bikes Belong completed a survey of more than 150 bicycle retailers from nearly 40 states to see if their summer 2008 sales reflected an increase in the use of bicycles for ... — full article at bikesbelong.org

Register now When you register for an Economist.com membership, you'll receive a complimentary 14-day pass that grants you unrestricted access to the premium online content at Economist.com.* Registration is free, and there's no obligation to subscribe. Learn more As an Economist.com member, ... — full article at economist.com

A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people. Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she was, as she put it, caught in the “work-spend ... — full article at www10.nytimes.com

A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people. Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she was, as she put it, caught in the “work-spend ... — full article at www10.nytimes.com

How Much Could I Save? At Greenfuel we convert petrol cars to run on LPG fuel, creating a dual petrol and LPG fuel system. As one of the UK's largest converter networks we convert around 1000 cars per year to the highest standards, ensuring the best in reliability for all of our customers. Just ... — full article at greenfuel.org.uk

Plastic flotsam is the bane of the Pacific Ocean – now Dutch conservationists want to turn some of it into an inhabited island A floating city of half a million people on a vast plastic island. Does that sound like Waterworld ? The vision could soon be a reality if Dutch conservationists have ... — full article at guardian.co.uk

An enormous chunk of ice breaks away from a Greenland glacier. — full article at dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com