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Humans

Salazar I: The Value of Science at Interior

Flawed Endangered Species Act decisions brought out a request for the Interior Secretary nominee to promise to ground future decisions by the agency firmly on the science.

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World’s windiest ocean locale

News briefs from the American Meteorological Society annual meeting being held January 11–15 in Phoenix.

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Steven Chu’s Senate Confirmation Looks Certain

Senate energy committee appreciates Obama's pick for Secretary of Energy.

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More Signs of Endangered Journalism

The grim reaper strikes again.

Computing

Googling: Your Cup of Tea?

In aggregrate, Internet searches can be fairly polluting.

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Early asteroids unexpectedly crusty

Two meteorites retrieved from West Antarctica, fragments of an ancient asteroid, contain a type of rock commonly found in Earth’s crust but previously unseen in meteorites.

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Planet Earth: An Illustrated History

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For a big view of inner Earth, catch a few … Geoneutrinos

Agriculture

Candy cane strategy sweetens life for goldenrods

Goldenrods temporarily duck their heads during pest season

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Warmer oceans would fuel more thunderstorms

Satellite data reveal more thunderheads forming as tropical sea-surface temperatures rise.

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Obama administration should lead energy transition

R.K. Pachauri, an engineer and economist by training, is director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India, and a corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his role as chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC periodically issues consensus reports on the science of climate change. Senior editor Janet Raloff spoke with him about changes he hopes to see from the Obama administration.

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Environment: Science news of the year, 2008

Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Environment. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.