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Toyota Motor Corp plans to produce 100,000 units a year of a new hybrid-only model slated for release in 2009. The new car, which will be Toyota's second dedicated hybrid model after the hot-selling Prius, will have a 2- to 2.5-litre engine.

When anyone invests $300 million dollars into promoting alternative energy sources, the Democrats usually take notice. When that person is an oil tycoon, brother of a "Bush Pioneer", and someone who was a major contributor to the 2004 Swift Boat ads, ...

Political leaders have a key role to play in developing and taking action to combat the world environmental degradation, according to a recent survey of 1,350 professionals in position to make or influence large climate-related decisions in their gover...

London club runs on the electricity generated by dancing.

High Tech Slalom Ski Training A new motion capture system using a network of sensors to detect high speed movement can help skiers to improve their downhill slalom racing techniques

Our Planet is facing dramatic changes owing to the accelerated rate of human development and indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources. Global warming is just one such warning sign that the delicate global ecosystem is very near the tipping scale.

The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming.

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New Offshore Drilling Won't Dig Us Out of the Hole Oil RigSo, big oil and friends are at it again: doing what they can to keep us hooked on fossil fuels for as long as possible.

Researchers have confirmed that in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's, levels of specific proteins in the blood and spinal fluid can be used to track the progression of AD, long before symptoms appear.