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For most of his 50 years, Abdoul Ag Alwaly, a cattle herder in northern Mali, used the same way of finding water for his cows. He would pay a motorcyclist [...]

A couple of years ago, Steven Weissman, an energy lawyer at the University of California-Berkeley, started to shop around for solar panels for his house. It seemed like an environmental [...]

In July, British tabloid the Daily Mail came out with a screaming headline: 'EXCLUSIVE: Video shows Hillary Clinton boarding private jet just hours after launching global-warming push.' Clinton's strategy to [...]

Solar power is having a major moment. It's growing faster than any other energy source--in 2014, a new system was installed in the United States every three minutes--while the price [...]

ON A CLOUDY spring morning, Ethan Ritter sat behind the wheel of a dump truck, lost in the maze of oil rigs northeast of Williston, North Dakota. Ritter, then 21, [...]

Home By Toni Morrison ALFRED A. KNOPF Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is known for novels in which female protagonists struggle to wrest control of their lives from an establishment bent [...]

Blue Nights By Joan Didion ALFREDA. KNOPF In 2005, Joan Didion won a National Book Award for The Year of Magical Thinking, an account of her husband's sudden death while [...]

THIS YEAR, the world's governments are expected to hand out tax breaks and subsidies to the oil, gas, and coal industries to the tune of $233 billion. But the free [...]

Four years ago, the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 workers and leaving vast quantities of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Filmmaker Margaret Brown, who grew up amid the [...]

Solar energy is going gangbusters. In the past decade, the amount of solar power produced in the United States has leaped 139,000 percent. A number of factors are behind the [...]

Bidder 70 GAGE AND GAGE PRODUCTIONS 73 minutes In the waning days of the George W. Bush administration, Utah college student Tim DeChristopher was angry about the ravaging of public [...]

Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy By Maggie Anderson, with Ted Gregory PUBLICAFFAIRS During the 1990s, according to the National Housing Institute, [...]

A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing By Lawrence M. Krauss FREE PRESS For particle physicist Lawrence Krauss, the revelation that the universe is expanding ever [...]

Raised on set, more or less, the 61-year-old actor Jeff Bridges--son of Lloyd, brother of Beau--has played everything from the president (The Contender) to the Dude (The Big Lebowski). Now [...]

Background: Activity levels and exercise capacity are decreased in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients. Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) programs can be difficult to undertake, particularly for individuals with severe COPD, who experience incapacitating dyspnoea. Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) is a passive form of muscle stimulation which does not stress the ventilatory system. This study examined the effects of an 8 week NMES programon the activity levels and exercise capacity of individuals with moderate to severe COPD. Methods: This single group cohort control study was performed with 8 participants of mean (SD) age 61.5 (6.16) years with moderate to severe COPD (FEV1/FVC range 0.35-0.79 and FEV1range 35%-70% predicted). Participants were instructed to carry out NMES training 5 days a week for 8 weeks and were assessed before and after the intervention for activity levels, using a triaxial accelerometer and exercise capacity, asmeasured by the 6 minute walk test (6MWT). Activity levels were expressed as vector magnitude units per min (VMU/min) and percentage of time spent above 500 VMU. Results: Activity levels failed to show statistically significant changes post intervention, but individual changes for VMU/min (p = 0.575) and time spent above 500 VMU (p = 0.327) indicated a trend towards improvement. A statistically and clinically significant improvement for 6MWT distanceswere observed (p = 0.012). No significant correlation between activity levels and exercise capacity was found. conclusions: NMES may be useful adjunct to PR for patients with moderate to severe COPD in order to improve exercise capacity and activity levels.

The article focuses on the environmental benefits and cost-efficiency of solar power. Topics discussed include the case of the energy consumption of retired firefigther Tony Silvia wherein he saved up to $100 after a solar panel from Solar City was installed on their roof, the continued growth of rooftop solar market, and the statement of the U.S. President Barack Obama regarding economic switch to renewable energy.

The article looks at the trading of cryptocurrency Bitcoin in Nigeria and how its popularity has led to more scams targeting investors. It discusses the response by informal groups of traders who verify transactions in person or through mobile messaging apps. Comments from Nigerian digital-security expert and Bitcoin enthusiast Bashir Aminu are included.

The article discusses the retention of ownership of renewable energy credits by solar energy leasing companies such as SolarCity. Emphasis is given to topics such as the selling of credits to power companies to meet renewable portfolio standards, residential installation of solar panels, and renewable energy sources.

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- How Nigerians Beat Bitcoin Scams After several friends of Aminu's lost thousands of dollars to scammers between them, they set up an informal exchange on the messaging app Telegram, trading among themselves. [Extracted from the article]

The article narrates how Tucson Audobon and the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) join forces to keep Paton's Birder Haven, a property an hour south of Tucson, Arizona, a hummingbird hotspot. It reports that Bonnie Paton Moon, daughter of late owner Wally Paton, was to close on the 280,000 U.S.dollar sale of the property to ABC in February 2014, which will hand over the management of the bird haven to Tucson Audobon. It also reveals that 15 hummingbird species were recorded at the property.

The article cites some universities and colleges, such as Deep Springs College, Maharishi University of Management (MUM) and Naropa University, which remain far from eco-friendly agendas in the U.S. The MUM is the first university offering a four-year degree in sustainable living. The Deep Springs shied away from green technology like Energy Star devices. Meanwhile, the Naropa has found it hard to harmonize with nature as stated by its graduate student Nathaniel Janowitz.

The article discusses the incorporation of environmentalism in the social sciences classes in Kentucky's University of Louisville. It talks about the experience of liberal arts student Angie Carlon who learned to consider the planet through documenting her waste. It also tackles the University of California, Los Angeles' (UCLA) campaign to create a School of Sustainability

A list is presented of the biggest donors to super-PACs (political action committees) and dark-money political groups, including brokerage founder Charles Schwab, hedge fund founder S. Donald Sussman, and real estate magnate George Marcus.