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Fracking brings boom, fears to rural US

Underneath the ground in southwestern Pennsylvania, bedrock is put under explosive pressure to fracture and spill out its lucrative cache of natural gas.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cassini finds Titan lake is like a Namibia mudflat

A new study analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests that the lake, known as Ontario Lacus, behaves most similarly to what we call a salt pan on Earth.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

EPA to cut air pollution from natural gas 'fracking'

(HealthDay) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday issued the first national standards to curb air pollution linked with the controversial practice of "fracking."

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Use less water, producing energy and fertilizer at the same time

Clean drinking water and basic sanitation are human rights. Yet almost 780 million of the world's population still have no access to drinking water and some 2.6 billion people live without sanitary facilities. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ammonites found mini oases at ancient methane seeps

Research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History shows that ammonites—an extinct type of shelled mollusk that's closely related to modern-day nautiluses and squids—made homes ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cheap natural gas makes inroads as US vehicle fuel

Natural gas, whose price is at record lows thanks to a shale drilling boom, is gaining traction as an alternative energy in the United States, with automakers jumping on the bandwagon.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Probe mission to explore Titan's miniscule rainfall proposed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Ralph Lorenz of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) outside of Baltimore has given a talk at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in Texas outlining what has ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Hazy shades of life on early Earth

A 'see-sawing' atmosphere over 2.5 billion years ago preceded the oxygenation of our planet and the development of complex life on Earth, a new study has shown.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Catalyser for clean rainforest air

(PhysOrg.com) -- The atmosphere’s robust capacity to clean itself is owed to the consistent recycling of its cleaning agent. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz have now clarified ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pa. woman: Chemicals in my water in drilling area

(AP) -- A woman says state environmental officials refused to do follow-up tests after their lab reported her drinking water contained chemicals, but it's unclear where the pollutants came from.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 14


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