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Some Trying to Save Nature Others Trying to Save Face

On Wednesday, Google Inc. launched a new feature in its Google Earth Web site, which is designed to let Californians see the risks of climate change. The feature is called CalAdapt and it illustrates the workings of warming temperatures, rising sea levels, precipitation shifts and the impact which intense wildfires have on the environment. The [...]

Is Google Polluting The World?

Image via Wikipedia The Times of London ran a piece earlier this week that claims that two Google search queries equal boiling one tea kettle, in terms of CO2 emissions. However, TechCrunch reveals today that the story is stretching the facts, and that a young physicist by the name of Alex Wissner-Gross has never made [...]

Googol your environment

Google launched the Googol competition. Googol is the number 10 raised to the power of 100, or alternatively, the digit 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google offers $10 million to the 10 finalists of the Googol competition. How do you win? Suggest an idea that could help the largest number of people on the planet, [...]