Arizona can offer solar-energy developers legendary sun-drenched skies and thousands of empty square miles but not nearly so ample a supply of a third essential...
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Amid AZ's push for solar power, water-supply worries arise
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NASA's new 'Glory' satellite will monitor aerosols' effect on climate change
LOS ANGELES — NASA is set to launch its latest Earth-orbiting satellite on a $424 million mission to analyze airborne grit spewed by volcanoes, forest fires, smokestacks...
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Libyan clashes hits stocks as oil prices surge
(02-21) 09:00 PST LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- Fears that Libya is heading toward deepening chaos hit stocks Monday and pushed oil prices sharply higher. With reports...
BP signs $7.2B India deal
LONDON — BP PLC is paying India's Reliance Industries $7.2 billion to take a stake in key oil and gas blocks, gaining a significant foothold in the Asian country as...
Energy efficient light bulbs survive House cuts
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Shale boom won't last, says Russian oil giant Gazprom
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U.S. urged to safeguard supply of 'energy-critical elements'
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Lula field coud turn Brazil into an oil superpower
Expected oil wealth from the region could be a "passport to the future," as Brazil's new President Dilma Rousseff said, for what is already one of the...
China plans to make a million electric vehicles a year by 2015
China is aiming to put more than a million electric vehicles onto the road each year by 2015, according to the state-run People's Daily. It claims that new plans for...
New study suggests permafrost meltdown will exacerbate global warming
Sinkholes dot the landscape from Anchorage to Murmansk as surface soil layers thaw. Average Arctic temperatures have risen by 2 degrees Celsius in recent years, melting...
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