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Huge growth at largest wind farm

A massive expansion is to take place at Europe's largest onshore wind farm, which is situated in East Renfrewshire. "Whitelee wind farm is already the largest onshore wind farm in Europe and this extension pushing the overall capacity to 539MW will make it one of the largest in the world."
- Simon Christian, UK director of ScottishPower Renewables

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U.S. farm town tries for all-renewable energy

Planet Save, 4 years, 1 month, 4 weeks, 2 days, 25 minutes ago, comment
Reynolds, Indiana - This farming hamlet is aiming to generate its own electricity and gas, using everything from municipal trash to farm waste, hog manure and even town sewage.

Blogger’s quest ends with keys to house

Boston.com, 4 years, 1 month, 4 weeks, 2 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ago, comment
Kipling, Saskatchewan - Taking a paper clip and turning it into a house sounds like a cheesy magic trick or a phony instance of resourcefulness on the 1980s TV show "MacGyver."

East Timor hit squad surrenders guns

BBC, 4 years, 1 month, 4 weeks, 2 days, 7 hours, 36 minutes ago, comment
East Timor - The leader of a hit squad allegedly armed on the orders of East Timor's former prime minister has surrendered his weapons to the government.

Low-Emission Cars Popular In China This Year

Space Daily, 4 years, 2 months, 2 hours, 1 minute ago, comment
Beijing - Fuel-efficient cars with low emissions proved popular in China's auto market in the first half of this year, accounting for half of the top-10 best selling vehicles.

Mammoths May Have Had Various Hair Colors

ABC News, 4 years, 2 months, 4 hours, 13 minutes ago, comment
Leipzig, Germany - Mammoths may have come in various hair colors, perhaps even red and blond, new research indicates.

‘Lab-made sperm’ fertility hope

BBC, 4 years, 2 months, 7 hours, 17 minutes ago, comment
UK - Scientists have proved for the first time that sperm grown from embryonic stem cells can be used to produce offspring.

Handheld device reads printed words for the blind

Texas Cable News, 4 years, 2 months, 10 hours, 20 minutes ago, comment
Dallas, TX - The 3,000 people in Dallas this week for the National Federation of the Blind convention are getting a demonstration of what life is like when you can read printed menus, mail, business cards and memos.

Green Gospels: Environmental movement aims for religious mainstream

USA Today, 4 years, 2 months, 16 hours, 19 minutes ago, comment
Athens, Greece - More than a decade ago on an Aegean island, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians made a startling proposition: That pollution and other attacks on the environment could be considered sins.

Mali signs pact with Tuareg rebels

Independent Online, 4 years, 2 months, 20 hours, 14 minutes ago, comment
Algiers, Mali - Mali signed an Algerian-brokered peace agreement on Tuesday with Tuareg rebels seeking greater autonomy for their northern desert region, witnesses said.

Endangered turtles dodge food pots

iafrica.com, 4 years, 2 months, 23 hours, 52 minutes ago, comment
Singapore - Singapore authorities have rescued 630 endangered turtles smuggled from Indonesia and destined for cooking pots, a wildlife trafficking watchdog and the government said on Wednesday.

Shuttle ‘100 Percent Cleared’ to Come Home

ABC News, 4 years, 2 months, 1 day, 1 hour, 20 minutes ago, comments (1)
Houston, TX - Space shuttle Discovery's astronauts got some happy news Sunday: It's safe to fly home.

New Process Makes Diesel Fuel And Industrial Chemicals From Simple Sugar

Terra Daily, 4 years, 2 months, 1 day, 13 hours, 16 minutes ago, comment
Madison WI - The soaring prices of oil and natural gas have sparked a race to make transportation fuels from plant matter instead of petroleum. Both biodiesel and gasoline containing ethanol are starting to make an impact on the market.

Tissue engineering breakthrough could aid human fertility

New Scientist, 4 years, 2 months, 1 day, 14 hours, 44 minutes ago, comment
Chicago, IL - A supportive gel capsule has allowed researchers to mature mouse eggs in the lab, which then went on to produce offspring for the first time.

Alaska’s Coral Gardens Get Protection

Discovery Channel, 4 years, 2 months, 1 day, 17 hours, 45 minutes ago, comment
Alaska's rare coral gardens will be protected under a new federal rule setting large areas of the sea floor off-limits to bottom trawling.

Activists become first to reach North Pole in summer

ZeeNews, 4 years, 2 months, 1 day, 18 hours, 49 minutes ago, comment
North Pole - Two environmentalists became the first people to reach the North Pole by canoe and on foot in summer, in an expedition aimed at drawing attention to how global warming is threatening polar bears with extinction, they said in a satellite telephone interview.

US Senators urge Bush to act on climate change

Environmental Finance, 4 years, 2 months, 1 day, 22 hours, 35 minutes ago, comment
New York - Forty US senators sent a letter to President Bush on 29 June, urging him to "provide leadership" on climate change, and warning that the US could lose its competitive edge in a "carbon conscious" world.

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