On Our Radar: Saluting a Colossus of Chemistry
Green Blogs, The New York Times
Accolades flow in for F. Sherwood Rowland, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry two decades after reporting that chlorofluorocarbons were destroying the ozone layer. He died on Saturday at age 84. “He saved the world from a major catastrophe,” a dean at the University of California, Irvine, says. [The Christian Science Monitor]
Japan ends its whaling season in the Antarctic after meeting less than a third of its annual target — 266 minke whales and one fin whale, compared with a quota of about 900, according to the nation’s fisheries agency. It blames “sabotage” by antiwhaling activists for the shortfall. [BBC]
A new book by an investigative reporter for ProPublica says an overwhelming corporate emphasis on cost-cutting at BP paved the way for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. [The Chicago Tribune]
First Solar will build a 26-megawatt solar plant near Tuscon for NRG Energy that relies on thin-film photovoltaic modules mounted on a single-axis system that tracks the sun. [Reuters]
