DM July 2005

July 31, 2005

Recovery begins amid devastation
Indianapolis Star - United States
By Ramola Talwar Badam. BOMBAY, India -- Their faces covered with masks against the stench, rescuers found dozens more bodies in ...

Devastation in Bombay: Monsoon flooding kills 700 in India
Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA
BOMBAY, India - Akhilesh Bhargava spent his 30th birthday clinging to a tree as roiling waters below him tore through a Bombay street, sweeping along the ...

EDITORIAL/ Recycling rain: Sumida water tanks inspire ...
Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo,Japan
... The small savings on water bills that resulted meant it would take 20 years ... That has made Japan the world's largest generator of solar power-1.13 megawatts, 50 ...

MSU geologist warns Montanans to be ready for earthquakes
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Bozeman,MT,USA
It was, in fact, something he has studied all his life. "I realized immediately with tremendous joy that it was an earthquake," he joked with a standing room ...

Glints from Inner Space: Sensing Earth's hidden radioactivity
Science News - USA
... Suspended 1 kilometer underground near Toyama, Japan, the balloon is surrounded by more than 1,800 supersensitive light detectors. ...

Dutch town illuminated by LED street lights
ElectronicsWeekly.com - UK
... s first LED street lights. Made by Philips at its plant near Lyon in France, the lamps use devices from Philips-Agilent joint venture Lumileds Lighting. ...

Fiber Optics Bring the Sun Indoors
Slashdot - USA
... inside -- minus the harmful UV rays -- rendering a more natural lighting feel, which can be hybridized with florescent and possibly LED lighting to provide a ...

Allen Park project adopts green approach
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... The Ford Rouge Center's new F-150 pickup plant has a 10.4-acre living roof where sedum, an ivy-like plant, soaks up rainwater, reduces heating and cooling ..

Investment Bank Consortium goes underground
WebitPR (press release) - North Hykeham,Lincoln,UK
... The fully fault-tolerant solution is housed across some of The Bunker's Ultra Secure Data Centres, up to 30 metres underground somewhere in rural England. ...

Utility wiring can't be run underground
Hub - Red Bank - Red Bank,NJ,USA
... along Center, New, Surf, Beech and West Front streets, Fernandes had hoped that re-routing the telephone, electrical and cable lines underground could be part ...

July 28, 2005

LED lamps brighten up Dutch town
Optics.org - London,England,UK
Philips Lighting has supplied a series of LED street lights which have been installed in Ede, a town in the Netherlands. The Philips ...

Green Roof For East Lothian School
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
Education officials are thinking green with plans to install a grass roof on top of a new primary school. The £7m building in Tranent ...

Mexico: Volcano erupts again
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... an eruption of Mount Vesuvius near Naples, Italy, could kill thousands, but lessons from a 1997 Caribbean eruption might ... > full story. Volcano erupts in ...

Rain nice, but not enough for drought-stricken eastern Iowa
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
By ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Quad Cities finally got some rain, but it wasn't enough to put a dent in some of the worst drought conditions on record. ...

Futuristic design for new Antarctic base
Gizmag - Victoria,Australia
... A hydroponics installation at the centre of the atrium will nourish the winter crew providing up to 3 fresh salads a week, as well as providing the refreshing ...

Futuristic Design for New Antarctic Base
Art Daily - USA
LONDON, ENGLAND.-A futuristic design by Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton Architects has won the competition for the new British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Halley .

Co-op analyzes manure digester system
Fort Dodge Messenger - Fort Dodge,IA,USA
... or cash investments. The manure digester could also offer significant returns for shareholders, Frazier noted. "For anyone to ...

Farmers get charge out of cow manure
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... The $900,000 system, known as an anaerobic plug-flow digester, was financed in part by a $244,000 state grant and a $150,000 federal grant. ...

InPhase Nears Storage Breakthrough
InternetNews.com - USA
Holographic storage has been pursued since Polaroid scientist Pieter J. Van Heerden first thought of storing data in three dimensions in 1963, but InPhase ...

Bucking the status quo
Gilroy Dispatch (subscription) - Gilroy,CA,USA
... Alternative homes - whether made of straw, rammed earth or poured concrete - are not only different in their construction, they may also save home owners money ...

In Cave City, we saw a lot, just not the cave
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... Our first stop was at the Wonderful World of Wax, Cave City's answer to New York's ... up the mini golf next door for a trip to Big Mike's Mystery House, a few ...

Clearing the air in schools
Boston Globe - United States
... Concerns over school air quality are not unique to Burlington but have surfaced in ... flat roofs that make them prone to leaks -- conditions ripe for mold growth. ...

Meteorite hits tractor
Edmonton Sun - Canada
... JOHN, BC -- An unusual rock that fell out of the sky, through a shed and into a tractor earlier this month appears to be a meteorite, says a director with the ...

Strange Light May Have Been Exploding Meteorite
WTVF - Nashville,TN,USA
People all across Middle Tennessee called in reports of a streak in the sky followed by a loud boom, and experts now think it may have been a meteorite. ...

Surprising succulents
Northwest Explorer - Tucson,AZ,USA
... If you want to grow them in the Tucson area, you need a greenhouse. ... Prior to the invention of synthetics in the 1960s, kapok was what life vests were stuffed ...

WHY CALIFORNIANS BUY SOLAR ELECTRIC SYSTEMS
Earthtoys (press release) - USA
This stems from the old adage "necessity is the mother of invention." Faced with ... consider that one basic 2 .5Kw PV system reduces annual greenhouse emissions by .

July 27, 2005

Thrift Store Gets New Green Building
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
... Building Design and Construction program, the building also features an earth -bag foundation with used carpet insulation, a rammed earth floor, clay plastered ...

Heavy Earthquake Terrifies Islands With Tsunami Threat
St Petersburg Times, Russia - St. Petersburg,Russia
NEW DELHI -- A powerful earthquake hit India's Nicobar Islands and part of Indonesia, triggering panic in some areas and a tsunami warning in Thailand, but ...

Hitler's underground city
Radio Polonia - Poland
... south-western Poland. It may have been meant as Hitler's headquarters, or perhaps a factory of secret weapons. Krystyna Kolosowska ...

Green roof theories get tryout in Ann Arbor
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Plants like prairie dropseed, purple lovegrass, wild strawberry and prickly-pear cactus are mingling to form a living, or green, roof atop the one-car garage ...

Petroleum Traders plans new $3.5M headquarters
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... The new headquarters was designed with an exercise room and rooftop garden to create an atmosphere that would appeal to employees, Himes said. ...

WARD OFF CONTRACTORS HEADACHES
Mother Earth News - Topeka,Kansas,USA
... (You'll want a really exceptional contractor if you aim to build an unconventional structure . . . such as an earth shelter or a post-and-beam house.). ...

New turbines require less wind
CBC Manitoba - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
... University of Alberta have designed a new type of wind generator that can ... White said the new technology is most useful for small applications, generating one ...

Fuel cell motorcycle: Get green with ENV
CNET News.com - USA
... A 1-kilowatt fuel cell generator provides power directly to the drive-train (there ... can be used to power "anything from a motorboat to a small domestic property ...

Downtown's subterranean secret: the tunnel
Jacksonville Daily Record - Jacksonville,FL,USA
... its shopping district below ground and Washington, DC, with its subway system, it's hard to find any place in Jacksonville where underground activity can ...

July 25, 2005

A garden cemetery goes green
Boston Globe - United States
... Cemetery, told a group of visitors at a recent tour of the 175-acre garden that's home ... Gutters connected to the roof are attached to several 55-gallon barrels. ...

conversation starters underground, under fire, under the radar ...
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
Federal agents on Thursday closed a 360-foot drug-smuggling tunnel running from a Canadian hut to a Washington living room. "They ...

Powerful earthquake hits India's Nicobar Islands, but causes no ...
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
NEW DELHI - A powerful earthquake hit India's Nicobar Islands and part of Indonesia, triggering panic in some areas and a tsunami warning in Thailand, but ...

AFTER THE DELUGE
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA
... Galvan said about 3,000 people sought shelter during the storm and some remained two days ... A tornado two years ago had also damaged his shop, but he said the ...

Environment briefs
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... The living roof at Evergreen State College's Seminar II Building earned a 2005 Green Roof Award of Excellence recently from a non-profit group called Green ...

July 24, 2005

Earthquake shakes Tokyo, 27 hurt
MarketWatch - USA
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - A strong earthquake shook Tokyo Saturday, injuring at least 27 people and disrupting transportation in and around the Japanese ...

When new building blocks his views, an Ashland man looks skyward ...
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
... That was my inspiration for this rooftop garden.". Powell had his project professionally engineered to guarantee it could handle the weight of the garden. ...

July 22, 2005

Can DNA help track ancestors?
Brewton Standard - AL, United States
... It is housed in underground caverns in Salt Lake City and great care has been given to make ... Another website is the Alabama Department of Archives and History. ...

Lightning Wrangler
PESN - Eagle Mountain,Utah,USA
... lightning-harnessing prototype, comprised of a Leiden jar, a Vandergraph generator, a nitro ... Using his small proof-of-concept set-up for an actual lightning ...

Living off the Grid
E/The Environmental Magazine - Norwalk,CT,USA
... sun and wind fail (very rare in the Arizona desert) there'sa 2,800-watt Makita generator. ... and storing the rain from the skies and building a small straw bale ...

Home sweet mural
Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls,ID,USA
... A few worn brushes lie at the bottom of an old wooden box on the home's front stoop near some canning jars half full of red, yellow, blue and white pigments. ...

Eerie Underwater Recording Deadly Indonesian Earthquake
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
Sound from last December's huge tsunami-causing earthquake was picked up by underwater microphones designed to listen for nuclear explosions

Manitoba meteorite hunter scores again
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
After finding two fragments of an iron meteorite in the fall of 2002 near Bernic Lake, in eastern Manitoba, Erstelle decided to dig out a similar-looking ...

Nassau Sizzles
LongIslandPress.com - NY,USA
... Theresa Carroll, a 911 operator who works inside a 1950s-era underground bunker at Nassau County Police Head-quarters in Mineola, says the system at her office ...

Moslems Destroy Temple Mount Artifacts
Israel Today - Jerusalem,Israel
Their goal was twofold: To erase all evidence of the Biblical Temples by destroying artifacts and to build a new mosque in the underground area known as Solomon ...

From back-to-the-land to back-to-the-future
Ruralnorthwest.com - Bonners Ferry,ID,USA
... Oehler said he first became interested in the internet to promote the sales of his three books, The $50 & Up Underground House Book, One Mexican Sunday and The ...

Daylight illuminates new school
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... Another unique feature is the geothermal heating and cooling system. With antifreeze-filled pipes installed 300 feet deep, the building ...

Mount St. Helens still cooking: Quakes shake, lava domes build
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... 3 -- has been reported in recent days by the Cascades Volcano Laboratory in ... The mountain, site of a devastating 1980 eruption that killed 57 people and sent a ...

Scientists hear the earth ripping apart
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
Scientists are using nuclear test monitoring microphones to analyze sounds caused by December's massive Indian Ocean earthquake and resulting tsunami. ...

Secret drug tunnel busted on US-Canada border
CTV - Canada
... in the United States have busted a drug-running operation on the border of Washington state and British Columbia that allegedly used an underground tunnel to ...

Vitale Statistics
Forbes - USA
... A rooftop spa offers what's called a Bathing Ritual ($60 for 20 minutes) in ... Immediately outside the dining room,the Aroma Therapy Garden bristles with rosemary ...

Green Roof Is Eco-Friendly
WSAW - Wausau,WI,USA
UW Stevens Point officials say students are already commenting on the benefits of a green roof recently installed. A Chicago-based ...

Green roof a cool investment in environment
Wisconsin Daily Rapids Tribune - Wisconsin Rapids,WI,USA
... The first of its kind in the area, the "Green Roof" cost UWSP some greenbacks - nearly $100,000 - but school officials say green will be great for the ...

July 20, 2005

A Step Toward Personal Windmills
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
... focus was the development of the simple control scheme to expand the operating range of the generator," Knight told LiveScience. Current small-scale wind ...

US Census Bureau Daily Feature for July 20: Locust Plague
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Profile America for Wednesday, July 20. Beginning on this day in 1874, the largest ever recorded swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts ...

July 19, 2005

Waterspout makes FEMA park residents fearful
Charlotte Sun-Herald - Charlotte,FL,USA
... FEMA spokeswoman, said there is very little the agency can do to help the residents of the park if another tornado forms. "They need to take shelter and follow ...

Rooftop gardening
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... Care must be taken during construction, however, because damp soil can add significant weight to a roof, Stackhouse said. A rooftop garden also must have a ...

Researchers make advances in wind energy generation
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
... and tested a generator that they are working to improve before they expect to apply for a patent and possibly bring it to market. Current small-scale wind ...

A turn for the better
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Make Architects' Spiracle Tower features a concealed vertical-axis wind generator at the top ... source, so you cannot produce a huge output from a small machine. ...

Going nowhere fast on North Korea's nukes
International Herald Tribune - France
... There are no helpful military solutions. "Surgical" air strikes would miss the nuclear facilities hidden in underground tunnels, and leave North Korea able to ..

These trees grow on money
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
Henkel Denmark landscape architects began converting a barren fifth-floor patio on the Central Bank building at 300 West Vine Street into a rooftop garden. ...

Red Carpet LOTR Locations Tour: Day One
The One Ring - New Zealand
... The Hobbiton set is located on the Alexander farm outside Matamata, about two hours south of Auckland. ... We toured Hobbiton with local guide Eric Jackson. ...

Sites: Production facilities in Miramar, The Shire, The Chocolate ...The One Ring - New Zealand
... the road!" site, where even after nearly six years the trees still frame the path where Frodo stood, and the large tree root where the four hobbits hid from ...

Grow Your Own Spa Garden
Bella Online - USA
Growing your own herbal spa garden can be a lot of fun. They can be planted on balconies, roof gardens, in your garden, in window boxes, patios or indoors. ...

BUILDING THE SUN COTTAGE
Mother Earth News - USA
... solar building work. Then we'll wrap up with that most crucial of all earth shelter components: waterproofing. The appearance, thermal ...

Creating artificial Tsunami, earthquake and landslides using ...
India Daily - Whitehouse Station,NJ,USA
Can Tsunamis be really created with artificial means? Can terrestrial technologies be used to create and facilitate an artificial earthquake of a large scale? ...

Simoon Travel: "We Only Go To Libya." Mathaba.Net - Africa
... take a trip into the Jebel Nafusa mountain range and visit the underground houses in ... served on the palm fringed shores on one of the lakes hidden amongst the ...

Creative strategists say you must strike twice -- at least -- to ...
Small Times - USA
... one. The LED lighting market -- or markets, as the case may be -- provides an illustrative example. LEDs are hardly new. They ...

Shifting the balance of power Towering energy costs could fuel ...
Small Times - USA
... Municipalities throughout the state have offset higher energy costs by using more efficient LED lighting in their traffic lights. ...

July 17, 2005

PASSIVE SOLAR PLUS
Mother Earth News - USA
... available for $15 postpaid from Earth Shelter Living magazine, Attention: Bill Baker, Dept. TMEN, 110 South Greeley Street, Stillwater, Minnesota 55082.

Quake rouses St. Helens with early morning jolt
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... surface Oct. 11. In the most recent eruption, on March 8, the volcano blew a plume of steam and ash more than 30,000 feet high.

Don't act too quickly if lost in the woods
Port Huron Times Herald - Port Huron,MI,USA
... But the muscle you need now is the one between your ears. Before you take it into the woods, it wouldn't hurt to gather some wilderness survival information. ...

~~~~THIS WEEK IN YOUR GARDEN
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach,CA,USA
... the roof. Trees growing on the south and west sides of the house have the most dramatic cooling effect. If you are one of the unlucky souls whose garden is ...

Plague of locusts invades France
Guardian Unlimited - UK
In a devastating new twist to the severe drought hitting southern Europe, France is now fighting a plague of hundreds of thousands of locusts which are ...

Earthquake shakes Hawaii's big island
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii - A moderate earthquake shook awake many residents of the Big Island on Friday morning, although no injuries or damages were reported. ...

July 15, 2005

Earthquake Fault Under Tokyo Closer Than Expected, Study Finds
National Geographic - Washington,D.C.,USA
Scientists have found that a major, earthquake-producing fault that runs beneath metropolitan Tokyo is closer to the surface--and potentially more dangerous ...

July 14, 2005

North Koreans Spent Years in Chinese Mountain Dugouts
Radio Free Asia - Washington,D.C.,USA
On the southwest side of Maban Mountain, in China's Jilin province, a cave entrance-home to North ... And we built a house around an elm tree, next to the water. ...

Biosphere 2's owner shopping for a buyer
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
... for a one-of-a-kind property set amid nearly 1,300 acres of cactus and tumbleweeds with spectacular mountain views, the 137,000-square-foot Biosphere 2 might ...

Builders think green
Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago,IL,USA
... Green roofs are popping up faster than plant puns. Mayor Daley sits in City Hall under a roof that he had converted to a garden nearly five years ago. ...

'Extraordinary horror' as teams toil underground
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
LONDON - Teams of forensic officers recovering bodies left among the wreckage on the Piccadilly line can only work in two-hour shifts because of the intense ...

Technology pays off in saved lives
McCook Daily Gazette - McCook,Nebraska,USA
... Four minutes may not seem like much -- but it's usually plenty of time to gather yourself and your children and get to a tornado shelter. ...

Finley man's wind generator gets stilled
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald - Mid-Columbia,WA,USA
... said he tells people that someday, he would like to see homes equipped with at least one mass-produced, efficient, quiet, small wind generator propped up on ...

Architect: New hospital ready for fire, quakes
Frontiersman (subscription) - Wasilla,AK,USA
... It has a circulation spine that follows from stem to stern, a continuous wall of glass that spans 350 feet for natural lighting," he said. ...

First German Tree House Hotel Opens In Zentendorf, Eastern Germany
Hospitality Net
A guest of Germany's first tree house hotel in Zentendorf, eastern Germany, walking on a wooden suspension bridge. The five cabins ...

Combatting Air Problems
KXAN-TV - Austin,TX,USA
... were caused by the air conditioning unit not cooling the building properly, leading to condensation which caused wet ceiling tiles and mold, likely leading to ...

Experts eye SA meteor site
News24 - Cape Town,South Africa
A meteorite the size of a mountain hurtled from outer space and struck earth some 2020 million years ago, just south-west of where Johannesburg is today. ...

Translucent concrete a winner for Hungarian architect
Infolink Architecture & Building - Australia
... The material is translucent because the glass fibres carry light in the form of little dots from one face of the block to another .Because of the parallel ...

'Hydroponics a useful technique for all crops'
Ludhiana Newsline - Ludhiana,India
Ludhiana, July 11: HYDROPONICS is a useful technique and can be adopted for growing all types of crops where soil is problematic, or in soilless conditions. ...

July 10, 2005

Mars is complex planet that continues to evolve
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
"Context is everything," said Philip Christensen, Principal Investigator for the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) on Mars Global Surveyor and for the ...

Volcanic Monserrat reemerging from the ashes
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA
... square miles, ducking the sometimes heavy ashfall (and coming out for the inevitable clean-up after each eruption). In June 1997, the volcano's first major ...

The Earthquake of 1693
di-ve.com - Malta
... One of the most frequently talked about earthquake that hit southeastern Sicily and the Maltese Islands was the one of January 1693. ...

London death toll rises to 50
Denmarks Radio - Denmark
Commuters in London reluctantly used the Underground this morning in an attempt to return ... a Web site claim in which an organization called the "Secret Group of ...

July 8, 2005

Gov. Blunt Declares Drought Alert in 23 Counties
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
Jefferson City, Mo. - infoZine - Missouri Governor Matt Blunt today declared a drought alert for 23 counties in southeast, south-central and northeast Missouri ...

Futuristic luxury homes unveiled
BBC News - UK
A showpiece collection of futuristic luxury homes set in a Cotswold nature reserve and designed by some of the UK's top architects have been unveiled. ...

Strides made in earthquake science
CNET News.com - USA
... While they're no more sure of the next big earthquake than a gambler is of the outcome of a football game, scientists at the US Geological Survey are getting ...

A nearby escape
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... charitable purposes. The living roof will include short prairie grasses, wildflowers and sedum, a succulent plant. The pavilion ...

Here's a house the three little pigs would love
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
... Magill lives in a Deltec Circular Home, the brainchild of an Asheville, NC, company that specializes in weather-resistant dwellings.

Landfill operators focus on expansion
Finger Lakes Times - Geneva,NY,USA
... Hydroponics -- Setting things up so that some of the excess gas that is generated by the methane gas program can be used for an indoor non-soil greenhouse ...

Students growing up with a love for gardening
Valley News Network - Temecula,CA,USA
... tool shed, grape arbor, oriental garden, rainforest, wishing well, bridge, fruit trees, rose bushes, cactus garden, herb garden, hydroponics garden building ...

At Home in the Wilderness
Mother Earth News - USA
... Should you be faced with such a wilderness survival situation, your first course of action should be the construction of a temporary shelter--such as a leaf ...

Manhole covers hide secret Moscow
BBC News - UK
... He told me they were of a journey along the entire length of a secret underground railway system, first built to evacuate Soviet leaders from the Kremlin in ...

Farmer Uses Hydroponic Growing to Multiply Crops
Lakeland Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
... Strictly speaking, hydroponics refers to growing plants in a liquid nutrient, said Bob Hochmuth, an extension agent in Northeast Florida with the University of ...

Despite Some Issues War of The Worlds is Still A Good Movie! ...
Eclipse Magazine - USA
... The Alien Machines have apparently been hidden underground for centuries. The aliens themeselves arrive via the lightning strikes to activate their machines. ...

HP makes futuristic discovery
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
Hewlett-Packard scientists have conducted breakthrough research in the use of light particles in computing that they say could someday help engineers build ...

New Scientist Breaking News - Nano-levers point to futuristic gadgets
Nano-levers point to futuristic gadgets. 15:25 24 June 2005; NewScientist.com news
service; Will Knight. Related Articles. Mechanical chip promises huge ...

Take a refresher course in backyard bargains
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... Antiques, current book best-sellers, tools, canning jars and jewelry all sell well, said Carol Shawver of Olympia. Furniture and ...

Wildwood Inn offers local getaway suites for families
Florence Recorder - Florence,KY,USA
FLORENCE - Tom Kelley promises any visitor to the new additions of the Wildwood Inn a chance to spelunk, sail the seven seas or live in a tree house, all under ...

Manure Could Be New Local Power Source
NBC4i.com - Columbus,OH,USA
... Authority of Central Ohio has approved entering into a contract with a composting company and the city of Columbus to build an anaerobic digester for Scioto ...

July 4, 2005

Futuristic Goo
Mobilemag.com - USA
But this futuristic formula is available now. If you ever find yourself with a digital projector but without a projection screen ...

A nose for mold
KFOR-TV - Oklahoma City,OK,USA
... is one of only 53 dogs in the US trained to smell the presence of mold in homes. Dogs are typically more cost effective than high-tech testing and air sampling ..

Size no measure of a good house 'Big Idea' designs on small ...
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Similarly, a minuscule roof garden can suggest the vastness of nature; a slant of light through a skylight can define time and place; a futon on a raised ...

Builders huff and puff to find favour
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
Ever wondered whether your house was built using timber framing, concrete, traditional or even "rammed earth" construction methods? Probably not. ...

Soft landing
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
When she first arrived in town, Porch got a room at an inn near the Sonoma Plaza operated by Ramekins culinary school. The inn is made of rammed earth. ...

Students analyze soil, sand, artifacts
Oneonta Daily Star - Oneonta,NY,USA
... Artifacts from this summer's dig include 24 projectile points, debris from making the points and dozens of nutting or grinding stones used to crack nuts or ...

Ningthem Pukhri fish dying unexplained
KanglaOnline - India
IMPHAL, Jun 22: In an unexplained and alarming phenomenon, scores of fishes in Ningthem Pukhri, Wangkhei Angom Leikai have started dying en masse. ...

Got a light?
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... powered light and water bottle. A waterproof solar panel, battery pack and LED light are sealed into the lid of this 1-liter bottle. ...

2005 Jeep Liberty Limited CRD
AutoWeek - USA
... Many of our test drivers felt the new Jeep Liberty with four-cylinder diesel power was faster than the 3.7-liter V6 gasoline model. ...

8 New Mushrooms Found on Mt. Odae
Korea Times - Seoul,South Korea
... mountain. The Korea National Parks Authority said yesterday it had found a total of 250 kinds of mushrooms in the national park of Mt. ...

Make dried mushrooms work for you
SunHerald.com - Biloxi,MS,USA
... Look for little cellophane packets of what may appear to be bits of dead leaves; you'll probably find them alongside fresh button mushrooms in most markets. ...

Glass house
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... It can be blown, cast, bent, or sculpted. It can be translucent, opaque, or iridescent. It can be painted or fused in colors that match the woodwork or drapes. ...

Tulips On The Moon
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
... We would need to start with an artificial biosphere. ... So it is just like a microorganism biosphere that you could bring to another planet. ...

A Biospherian's work is never done
Northwest Explorer - Tucson,AZ,USA
... For two years, the researchers would try to live inside Biosphere 2, a scaled-down version of Biosphere 1, also known as Planet Earth. ...

'Rain garden' can filter runoff
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
... Build a rain garden. An innovative way to cut storm water runoff is to build a rain garden, which features plants that love moisture.

Henan strives to save and protect "underground Siheyuan"
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
The "pit yards" in Sanmenxia of Henan Province, dubbed as the "architectural miracles" in China or "underground Siheyuan (traditional single-story houses with ...

Earthquake rocks Nicaragua, no injuries or damage reported
Xinhua - Beijing,China
MANAGUA, July 1 (Xinhuanet) -- An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale jolted Pacific waters near Nicaragua late Friday. ...

South/Southeast Asia and East Africa: Earthquake and Tsunamis ...
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
In recent days, the world has paused to commemorate the passing of six-months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami destroyed so many lives. ...

cloud and cuckoo land
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
... And it's swirling around the roof of the world's largest underground canyon, part of the ... They must have all leapt from the water and hidden in the woods when ...

Montserrat's first explosion in two years
Caribbean Net News - Georgetown,Cayman Islands
BRADES, Montserrat: On Tuesday, June 28, 2005, Montserrat's Soufriére Hills Volcano produced its first explosive eruption, since the most powerful eruption ...

Top Of Lava Dome Falls Into St. Helens Crater
KOIN.com - Portland,OR,USA
... The US Geological Survey has monitored the volcano closely since it rumbled back ... Scientists have said a more explosive eruption, possibly dropping ash within a ...

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