by Colin Taylor | Jul 9, 2014 | Monitor
1. Its real and it works Fusion is the same process that powers the sun and is already being conducted in laboratories all over the world. Scientists have made exponential progress in fusion energy over the past few decades but progress was slowed by budget cuts in...
by Colin Taylor | Jun 20, 2014 | Monitor
On June 18, 2014 American Security Project Board Member and former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Christine Todd Whitman testified on climate change in front of the Senate Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Security. Whitman was joined...
by Colin Taylor | Jun 19, 2014 | Monitor
On Tuesday June 17, President Barack Obama announced his intent to declare 782,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean a National Monument. Obama’s plan expands the sanctuary, created in 2009 by President George W. Bush, by a factor of nine and makes fishing,...
by Colin Taylor | Jun 19, 2014 | Monitor
Japan protests South Korea’s plan for target practice in disputed waters Kiyoshi Takenaka and Ju-min Park / Reuters Japan has protested to South Korea against a shooting drill its neighbor plans in disputed waters, Japan’s top government spokesman said on...
by Colin Taylor | Jun 3, 2014 | Monitor
China pledges to limit carbon emissions for first time Adam Vaughan and Tania Branigan / The Guardian China, the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, will limit its total emissions for the first time by the end of this decade, according to a top government...