‘Nature’ Archives
Global Warming: Survival Of The Fittest
Part of a forest will be enclosed, heated up and pumped with CO2 to see who wins and loses if the planet heats up. Global warming has found a willing victim: a small patch of spruce forest in the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota. There, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will create the [...]
Technology Saves Lives In Haiti
Text messages and mapping tools are helping victims of the earthquake. Geeks and technologists around the world are creating tools to help earthquake victims in Haiti. These tools are focused around gathering and mapping the data, and broadcasting it to the relief workers on the ground. When the news of the earthquake broke, several groups and [...]
