Steve Snodgrass via Flickr / CC BY 2.0 I’m not sure this can even be considered news anymore, given the regularity with which it happens: ExxonMobil has posted massive earnings. Again. The oil giant claims quarterly earnings of $10.3 billion dollars, bringing the yearly total thus far to $31 billion.
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Exxon’s Profits Hit $31 Billion So Far This Year, Yet Big Oil Subsidies Flourish
October 27th, 2011
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The Solar Industry is Like a Yo-Yo
October 18th, 2011
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First Solar /Promo image Cyclical Like the Sun For about as long as it has existed, the solar power industry has been going from boom to bust, and vice versa. It is growing fast, and has been for years, but forget about a smooth upward curve: Up close, the trajectory looks like the Alps. But is that such a bad thing?…
Toxic Algae Bloom in Lake Erie Worst in Decades
October 16th, 2011
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Blooming Lake Erie. Photo Credit: NASA EO Pure Michigan is a slogan used in the Great Lakes State, to bring in tourists and celebrate the beauty of nature. You probably won’t be seeing these images in any Pure Michigan ad campaign.
Ancient Lakes Miles Below Antarctica May Hold Climate Clues, New Life Forms
October 12th, 2011
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All Antarctica photos: Subglacial Lake Ellsworth Consortium , Neil Ross/University of Edinburgh Cocktail party fact incoming: There are hundreds of liquid lakes that lie miles beneath Antarctica. Unfrozen, but still-cold-as-hell, lakes. The largest, Lake Vostok, boasts three times the volume of the Great Lake Ontario, itself one of the biggest freshwater bodies in the world. Now, scientists are planning the first-ever research expedition to learn more about the underground water stores.
