To Pull a Thorn From the Side of the Planet
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Environmentally friendly flowers are a hard sell. After all, most people donât eat them.
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Bad news for the NASA Administrator - the Space Shuttle has blown up again. But this time the cause is not foam-fretted tiles, it&#39;s alien hitch-hikers. That&#39;s right: aggressive extraterrestrials have bummed a rocket ride to Earth to take over our planet. It&#39;s a familiar theme, indeed, but there&#39;s a silver lining to this interstellar cloud: the invaders are doing it for your own good.
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Future space explorers might bring back more than just pictures from their excursions -- they could mine the planets for profit. By Mark Baard.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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In the night of 15-16 November, ESA&#39;s Smart-1 space probe is scheduled to enter into an orbit around the Moon. This operation is not without danger, as it means traversing an area in which the gravitational
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Tom Lalley of the World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778-9544, tom.lalley@wwfus.org   BALI, Indonesia, Feb.
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The complexity of life took    billions of years to push and stretch and reshape the biological niche that    is Earth. It would seem prudent Â if one had the means Â to save some portion    of the blueprints of this majesty, so that the process would not have to start    over from scratch in the event of a global cataclysm.
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In comic books, weather manipulation is a tool for world domination. In reality, it could be salvation for states suffering through a drought. By Ron Berler from Wired magazine.
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By LOUISE GRAY  IT WAS such a beautiful morning that Jake Moorcock thought he would check his apple trees for signs of an early spring. The trouble was - they had gone.
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Long used by farmers as a guard against grazing animals and erosion, a plant called jatropha is now being hailed as a potentially ideal source of biofuel.
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Pay attention and you might grab a reward.
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CHERSKY, Russia  - One day, climate change could cost the earth. For now, it is a nice little earner for Russian hunter Alexander Vatagin.
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Researchers worldwide are collecting seeds from wild plants to guard against the ravages of climate change.
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By Therese Poletti and Nicole C. Wo, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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You can learn something about a rock by looking at it. But what most geologists really want is to smack it with a hammer. And that&#39;s just what planetary scientists will do July 4 when
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. _ I was happy to see the label "poisonous" on the plant Brugmansia when I visited a garden center in the other day. I applaud them for letting the public know _ especially shoppers who have curious small children or pets.
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SYDNEY, Australia - With the aroma of "overripe Camembert cheese on a bed of roadkill" a rare example of the world's largest flower burst into bloom Thursday in a Sydney hothouse.    Visitors to Sydney's Botanical Gardens have described the scent of the Titan Arum, also known as Amorphophallus titanum, as like a room full of smelly socks, fish rotting, wet carpet, or a rotten banana...