India Plans Focus on Environment

"India has been making a concerted effort in the area of forestry for 20 years, and is one of the few developing countries where the forest cover has increased over that period, according to Mr. Ramesh."

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Obama energy goal: cheap renewables

"He offered several examples of what those breakthroughs might look like: the development of "gasoline and diesel-like biofuels" generated from low-grade biomass such as solid waste and non-food crops; automobile batteries with double or triple the current capacity, which could l …

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Why Obama's green jobs plan might work - Los Angeles Times

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A federal bailout for Prop. 8 - Los Angeles Times

A Colorado battle may offer a means of challenging California's same-sex marriage ban.

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Palin: wrong woman, wrong message - Los Angeles Times

Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

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Backers focused Prop. 8 battle beyond marriage - Los Angeles Times

Opponents of gay marriage shrewdly targeted the implications for schools, churches and children, analysts say.

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Gay marriage: The right to love - Los Angeles Times

Same-sex unions do not diminish the bonds of marriage, they uphold them.

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Five on Eight - Los Angeles Times

Debating Proposition 8 -- should California eliminate marriage for same-sex couples? Five writers give their answer.

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Report: North Korea restricting cell phone use | News - Wireless - CNET News

I was not sure if cell phone has been used without supervision, or between ordinary people in North Korea.

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Obama the naive - Los Angeles Times

His views on world affairs ignore history and imperil the U.S. and our allies.

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Does Weight Lifting Make a Better Athlete?

Some training experts swear by weights. Others believe in plain old practice.

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Pieces of Texas Turn Primary Into a Puzzle

The rapidly mounting fight in Texas has reminded strategists yet again of the state's unwieldy size and geographical differences.

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Bush Confronts Hard Questions in Ghana

President Bush faced skepticism on Wednesday about American military policy and his AIDS initiative.

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Poverty Is Poison

To be poor in America today, even more than in the past, is to be an outcast in your own country. And that, the neuroscientists tell us, is what poisons a child's brain.

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Educating India's Poor

India is confronting the perils of its failure to educate its citizens, notably the poor.

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Quantum Dots and Ultra-Efficient Solar Cells?

The efficiency of solar cells is the electrical power it puts out as percentage of the power in incident sunlight.

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TR10: Nanocharging Solar

No renewable power source has as much theoretical potential as solar energy. But the promise of cheap and abundant solar power remains unmet, largely because today's solar cells are so costly to make.

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Even France, Haven of Smokers, Is Clearing the Air

Under a sweeping decree that took effect Wednesday, smoking has been banned in every commercial corner of "entertainment and conviviality."

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Ambition and Horror in Kenya

Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga must be brought together and pushed to come up with a solution that will restore Kenyans' faith in their democratic system.

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Tiny Is Beautiful: Translating 'Nano' Into Practical

In the hip science of ultrasmall nanotechnology, fantastical future possibilities like rampaging nanorobots capture the most attention, but the first fruits of the field have been more mundane: tiny bits of mostly ordinary stuff that just sit there...

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Silicon Valley Rebounds, Led by Green Technology

After five years of job losses, Silicon Valley's turnaround coincides with increased investment in clean environment technology.

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STMicroelectronics Projects 20 Fold Decline In Solar Photovoltaics Prices

Did they invent such cheap solar cell in 2003? What they are doing now?

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Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost

Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include Google's co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels.

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Mapping a path to solar power - Los Angeles Times

NASA has identified Earth's sunniest spots, which could guide strategy for developing alternative energy.

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How Silicon Makes a Solar Cell

Silicon has some special chemical properties, especially in its crystalline form. An atom of silicon has 14 electrons, arranged in three different shells. The first two shells, those closest to the center, are completely full...

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