Mountaintop Removal Mining: A West Virginia Activist's PerspectiveLarry Gibson is West Virginia activist (and President of the Board of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation) working to stop the destructive mining practice of mountaintop removal (MTR). This method of coal mining has been described as "strip mining on steroids." Coal companies remove the vegetation from an entire ...
Man-Made Climate Change in the Skies What is happening in our skies may have more to do with global climate change than we know. From commercial airlines' contrails to solar radiation management and weather modification, new and challenging perspectives are emerging. Across the board, diverse interest groups have started to investigate these phenomena and their effects ...
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No one has used the revelations of science fiction to explain the realities of science more than Kaku, who takes us on a fast-forward look at tomorrow. Based on interviews with more than 300 of the world's top scientists who are already inventing the future in their labs, Kaku reveals ...