Chile's February 27 earthquake was so massive that it shifted the earth's axis and shortened the day by 1.26 millionths of a second. The loss of human life and destruction of property lingered on minds across the world, but a decade-long effort to lure innovative technology firms to the South American country was also at stake.
(May 30) -- Turning an abandoned coal mine into a fish farm sounds like the stuff of TV parody: "Extreme Makeover, Geology Edition." But people in West Virginia are betting on the commercial potential of doing just that.
"It's sort of an unrecognized resource," says Joe Hankins, director of the Conservation Fund's Freshwater Institute in...
