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We Don't Need Trees
Earth Times
, Oct. 28, 2011

Nonrecycled Plastics Could Be Energy Source for U.S.
American Chemistry Council
, Oct. 12, 2011

Burning Nonrecyclable Plastics for Energy
ClimateWire
, Oct. 12, 2011

Earliest Signs of Advanced Tools Found
New York Times
, Aug. 31, 2011

The Quest to Capture Carbon Dioxide
Natl. Geographic News
, Aug. 11, 2011

Cleaning Up the Carbon Mess
Bloomberg TV
, Aug. 1, 2011

Artificial Trees and Carbon Capture
WAMC public radio
, Jun. 9, 2011

Study Raises Doubt on Capturing Carbon Dioxide From Air
New York Times
, May 9, 2011

Saving the World With Synthetic Trees
Wall Street Journal
, Apr. 25, 2011

Bamboo Bikes: Strong, Green, Affordable
Agfax
, Apr. 24, 2011

Mobile Technology Helps Every Person Count
National Geographic News
, Mar. 1, 2011
by Matt Berg

High-Tech Gadgets Measure the Human 'Exposome'
Nature
, Feb. 16, 2011

How Mobiles Save Lives in the Developing World
Cisco News
, Jan. 24, 2011

Klaus Lackner's Artificial Trees
Innovation Nation TV
, Jan. 1, 2011

Information Technology's Role in Sustainable Development
Treehugger
, Dec. 6, 2010

Oil + Water
Columbia
, Oct. 15, 2010

Low Oil Spill Estimates Rested on 'Unexplained Assumptions'
USA Today
, Oct. 6, 2010

New Estimate of Gulf Oil Flow
PBS Newshour
, Sept. 23, 2010

Gulf Spill Volume Estimated From Video
BBC
, Sept. 23, 2010

Study Suggests Last U.S. Gulf Spill Estimate Was Right
Christian Science Monitor
, Sept. 23, 2010

Gulf Spill May Have Been Bigger Than Feds Estimated
Science News
, Sept. 23, 2010

Degraded Oil Coats Gulf Seafloor
LiveScience
, Sept. 21, 2010

Science in Action: Saving Energy
BBC World Service
, Sept. 3, 2010

What Saves More Energy?
CNN Money
, Sept. 2, 2010

The Energy World Is Changing
PennWell
, Aug. 29, 2010
by Roger N. Anderson

More Than 4 Million Barrels of Oil Entered Gulf
New Scientist
, Aug. 26, 2010

Waste to Energy: China Leads
Waste Management World
, Aug. 24, 2010
by Nickolas Themelis and Zhixiao Zhang

People Habitually Underestimate Their Energy Use
The Economist
, Aug. 23, 2010

Delusions Abound on Saving Energy
New York Times
, Aug. 18, 2010

Saving Energy: What Actually Works
Green Tech
, Aug. 18, 2010

Missing the Chance for Big Energy Savings
National Geographic News
, Aug. 18, 2010

Fighting Fallacies About Energy Efficiency
New Scientist
, Aug. 17, 2010

Green and Clueless
Newsweek
, Aug. 17, 2010

Americans' Sense of Energy Savings? Small Change.
The Daily Climate
, Aug. 16, 2010

Scrubbing the Skies
National Geographic
, Aug. 1, 2010

Exploring the Geology of Gulf Oil
NPR Talk of the Nation
, Jul. 23, 2010

The Gulf: What's Next?
WHYY
, Jul. 22, 2010

How Will a Hurricane Affect the Gulf Oil Spill?
Scientific American
, Jul. 15, 2010

How a Rare Mix of Geology Created Riches, and Danger
Washington Post
, Jul. 13, 2010

How to Kill a Well
Science
, Jul. 2, 2010

Emerging Explorer: Zoltan Takacs, Herpetologist and Toxinologist
National Geographic
, Jun. 30, 2010

Turning Killers Into Cures
ABC 7 News
, Jun. 24, 2010
Former Earth Institute Fellow Zoltan Takac

Imagining the Unimaginable
OECD Insights
, Jun. 17, 2010
by John Mutter

Gulf Spill's Environmental Impact, in Three Dimensions
Wall Street Journal
, Jun. 12, 2010

Feds May Have Low-Balled Oil-Spill Rate
NBC Nightly News
, Jun. 10, 2010

BP Pins Hopes on Relief Wells to Stop Gulf Oil Spill
Scientific American
, Jun. 9, 2010

The Spill, the Scandal and the President
Rolling Stone
, Jun. 8, 2010

Can There Be Global Oil Spill Accountability?
PRI's The World
, Jun. 7, 2010

What the Spill Will Kill
Newsweek
, Jun. 6, 2010

Unusual Oil Spill Solution: A Nuclear Bomb
WNYC Leonard Lopate
, Jun. 3, 2010

Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill
New York Times
, May 30, 2010

We Have No Idea Where Deep-Water Oil Is Drifting
CNN.com
, May 28, 2010
by Andreas Thurnherr

Infrared Images of Oil Spill Show Vast Extent
CBS Evening News
, May 28, 2010

How Text Messaging Could Track Thousands of Children
SmartPlanet
, May 24, 2010

The Measure of a Disaster
New York Times
, May 23, 2010

Oil Spill a Catastrophe Worse Than Previously Thought
ABC World News
, May 20, 2010

Gushing Oil Far Exceeds Estimates
KPCC
, May 17, 2010

Gulf Oil Spill Could Be Much Worse Than Believed
NPR
, May 14, 2010

Scientists Press BP to Release Film of Oil Leak
The Guardian
, May 13, 2010

CO2 Storage Potential in New York Area Rocks
ClimateWire
, Jan. 4, 2010

Iceland's New Carbon Storage Project
Earth & Sky
, Dec. 28, 2009

A Material to Capture Carbon Dioxide
Technology Review
, Dec. 21, 2009

How Rocks Capture Carbon Dioxide
Technology Review
, Nov. 21, 2009

Machine Trees
The Eye
, Oct. 14, 2009

Pulling CO2 From the Air: Promising Idea, Big Price Tag
environment360
, Oct. 9, 2009

Stone Savior
National Geographic Adventure
, Oct. 1, 2009

Combating Climate Change by Storing CO2 Underground
PRI's The World
, Sept. 30, 2009

Another Way of Getting Rid of CO2
The Economist
, Sept. 7, 2009

6 Bright Ideas for Future Energy
Popular Science
, Jul. 1, 2009

Scrubbing CO2 With Synthetic Trees
New York Times blogs
, Jul. 1, 2009

'Synthetic Tree' Aims to Catch Carbon in Air
CNN
, Jun. 22, 2009

Africa Weather Network Launched
UN News Centre
, Jun. 18, 2009

Carbon Tracking in the North Sea
The Engineer
, May 27, 2009

Sucking It Up
Nature
, Apr. 30, 2009

Can America Afford to 'Go Green'?
ABC World News
, Apr. 22, 2009

New York Touts Plan to Lock Away CO2
Agence France-Presse
, Apr. 21, 2009

Engineers Design Fake 'Trees' to Pull in CO2
MSNBC
, Apr. 16, 2009

The Rock That Ate CO2
Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC
, Mar. 19, 2009

CO2 -Eating Rocks
Living On Earth
, Mar. 13, 2009

Latest (And Hardest) Tool for Battling Climate Change
Discover
, Mar. 10, 2009

Maps Show Rocks Ideal for Sequestering Carbon
New York Times
, Mar. 9, 2009

Scrubbing the Skies
The Economist
, Mar. 7, 2009

Vote the Rock
Mother Jones
, Mar. 6, 2009

Scientists Map U.S. Rocks That Soak Up CO2
Reuters
, Mar. 6, 2009

Bamboo Bikes to Get Africa Moving
Mother Nature Network
, Mar. 3, 2009

CO2-Gobbling Rocks
Forbes
, Mar. 1, 2009

The Rock That Ate CO2
OnEarth
, Mar. 1, 2009

Toward a Clean Energy Future
The Observer
, Feb. 16, 2009
Steve Cohen's Blog

Some Rocks Can Clean Up CO2
Medill Reports
, Feb. 4, 2009

Can Technology Clear the Air?
New Scientist
, Jan. 7, 2009

Mobiles Give Africa's Farmers a Chance
The Guardian
, Jan. 4, 2009

Treating Patients With Cell Phones
Fortune
, Dec. 30, 2008

Three Rules for Technological Fixes
Nature
, Dec. 17, 2008

Cheap Transport on Two Wheels
The Economist
, Nov. 27, 2008

Eating Carbon
The Economist
, Nov. 13, 2008

Carbon-Capturing Rocks
Technology Review
, Nov. 4, 2008

Iceland Finds New Ways to Trap Carbon
InterPress News Service
, Oct. 9, 2008

Iceland Tests Carbon Capture
BBC TV
, Oct. 9, 2008

Cell Phones Transform Africa's Development
All Africa
, Sept. 18, 2008

Lighting Up Africa Through Innovation
Business Week
, Sept. 11, 2008

Top ten eco innovations for a better planet
Plenty Magazine
, Aug. 1, 2008

Tucson firm's 'synthetic trees' could help clean air
Tucson Citizen
, Jul. 31, 2008

Scientists Pursue CO2 Storage in the Ocean Floor
NPR Talk of the Nation
, Jul. 25, 2008

Deep-Sea Carbon Sequestration
NPR Science Friday
, Jul. 25, 2008

Bamboo bikes have benefits
San Francisco Chronicle
, Jul. 4, 2008

Mopping Up the CO2 Deluge
TIME
, Jul. 3, 2008

Capturing Carbon
PBS
, Jul. 2, 2008

Turning CO2 to plastics and dry ice
Business Green
, Jun. 2, 2008

Hopes to usher in a revolution in affordable lighting
Economic Times (India)
, Jun. 1, 2008

Could US Scientist’s ‘CO2 Catcher’ Help to Slow Global Warming?
The Guardian (London)
, May 31, 2008

Seeing Crisis as Opportunity
NPR Marketplace
, May 23, 2008

The Next Billion: Mobile Technology Saves Lives In Sub-Saharan Africa
InformationWeek
, May 9, 2008

Europe Turns to Coal Again, Raising Alarms on Climate Change
New York Times
, Apr. 23, 2008

Technological Keys to Climate Protection
Scientific American
, Apr. 1, 2008

A Solar Grand Plan
Scientific American online
, Jan. 1, 2008

Remove CO2 From Air? Experts Working on It
MSNBC
, Nov. 20, 2007

Giving Climate Change a Kick
ScienceNOW
, Nov. 9, 2007

Mobiles for the 'world's poorest'
BBC
, Sept. 10, 2007

Scientists Attempt to Roll Back Emissions
The Guardian
, Jul. 30, 2007

From Sturdy Bamboo, a New Way to Pedal
The Seattle Times
, Jun. 23, 2007

Experimenting With Carbon Sequestration
National Public Radio
, Jun. 1, 2007

New Device Vacuums Away Carbon Dioxide
LiveScience
, May 1, 2007

Curbing Emissions Won't Be Enough
Newsweek
, Apr. 16, 2007

How to Cool a Planet (Maybe)
New York Times
, Jun. 27, 2006

Iceland Set to Capture Carbon in its Rocks
Associated Press
, Apr. 21, 2006

How Earth-Scale Engineering Can Save the Planet
Popular Science
, Aug. 1, 2005

Needling Out the Arsenic Epidemic
Geotimes
, May 1, 2005