June 30 2006

AND THE RAINS CAME...
Ether Zone - Princeville,IL,USA
... how is it that we are witnessing more and more record breaking cold spells ... am not a scientist nor a climatologist or meteorologist or any kind of weather expert ...

Middleton teen presumed drowned after thrill ride in canal tunnel
KTVB - Boise,ID,USA
Gem County Sheriff's deputies say 19-year-old Jose Perez failed to come out of this canal tunnel near Emmett, which runs about a quarter mile underground. ...

Architects unveil new design for Freedom Tower
International Herald Tribune - France
... The phrase "concrete bunker" was tossed around ... More equipment would be hidden within a halo-like circular structure, 145 feet in diameter, close to the base of ...

Communities drenched after days of record rain in northeastern US
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... order covering 200,000 people. But other communities drenched by days of record-breaking rain were not as lucky. Along the swollen ...

Pastor visits underground Chinese churches
Gulf Breeze News - FL, USA
... At night we met with members of the 'underground church,'" he added. ... Despite these difficulties, the underground church is growing. ...

¢~ Underground believers in North Korea participating in a ...
Daily NK - Seoul,South Korea
... 20years asserted ※?About 35,000 people of the Christians in North Korea are directly connected to our organization§ and ※?about 28 underground churches have ...

June 28, 2006

’Record-breaking heat wont last much longer
Albany Democrat Herald - Albany,OR,USA
... reservoirs. Although area emergency services personnel were busy, no deaths were attributed to the unseasonably warm weather. State ...

Sunday Storms Devastate Poynette Area Farmers, Gardeners
WISC, WI - Jun 26, 2006
... Farmers were assessing the damage on Monday after about five inches of rain fell in less than 24 hours and a 40-minute hail storm in parts of Columbia County.

The First Gravity Engine
PESN - Eagle Mountain,Utah,USA
... John Collins has written an astonishing book, Perpetual Motion: An Ancient Mystery Solved?, that gives an account of the work of Johann Bessler, who began ...

Answer to water woes may lie below
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA... plan was perceived as being overly negative about developing (underground) fresh water ... Hendry and Glades counties areas are girding for an explosion of growth. ...

Anti-missile silo in CzechRep to be hidden under ground - expert
Czech Happenings - Pragues,Czech Republic... There would be no risk of its underground explosion either. If it were launched, people would hardly see it," the expert explained. ...

Geothermal systems make home heating, or cooling, simple and save ...Nashua Telegraph (subscription) - Nashua,NH,USA... Of course, PSNH has an incentive to push this, since a geothermal home uses more electricity than a heating-oil home, even while its total energy usage is less ...

Director drops earth home plea
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
... Dales planning officials insist they were right to refuse Mr Buffett permission because his earth house would be outside Hardraw settlement boundaries and "not ...

Ice cream, swimming pools the order of the day!
Alberta Daily Herald Tribune (subscription) - Grande Prairie,Alberta,Canada
Temperatures in Grande Prairie soared to a record-breaking 32.2C Monday, sending people ... had been ringing off the hook since the arrival of hot weather Friday. ...

June 26, 2006

Italy's Ligurian coast
Independent - London,England,UK... But here, in these ancient, miniature villages, you can't get away. ... Why it remains a largely unfamiliar destination to the British is still a mystery to me. ...

Prehistoric wonders at deep, dark depths
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA... The spring-fed sinkhole is nearly hidden, except on cool days when steam rises in ... ready to go, guided John and I down a long wooden set of steps underground. ...

San Juan's sentinel
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA... gun rooms, storerooms, barracks, ramps, vaulted rooms, underground chambers, turrets ... Hidden beneath the grassy area were tunnels filled with explosives to deter ...

Underground aqueduct to free up parkland
ABC Online - Australia... Linear Park. The decision will free an area of about 51 hectares for public access by piping the water supply underground. Premier ...

Royal and ancient
Scotsman - United Kingdom... Its ten-acre garden, however, is not so ancient, having been designed and cultivated ... explained that Cane was asked to create a garden with mystery, inspired by ...

Heat Reflective Paint: Solar cool 21st Century technology
Ferret - Australia Insultec Paint: Uniquely unsurpassed in its ability to stop damage caused by the transfer of solar heat. By a successful method ...

Site With A Solar Energy Focus
CarbonFree News - Cambridge,UK
A website featuring large scale solar energy projects focuses attention of concentrated solar technology (CSP). The site points ...

Solar World: Low cost for Nanosolar
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- Nanosolar, a Calif.-based solar technology company, is set to open the world`s largest thin-film solar factory in the ...

Tight hay supply puts Texas producers in bind
Sulphur Springs Country World News - Sulphur Springs,TX,USA
... business. White owns Green Roof Farm in northwester Yell County. ... Texas. Hay is usually cut at least four times a year at Green Roof Farm. ...

Foundations Laid For Sustainable Education Centre
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
The architects’ design includes a circular 200-seat lecture theatre with 7.2m high rammed earth walls – the tallest rammed earth structure in the UK. ...

A first class campus
ic Solihull.co.uk - Solihull,UK
By Lisa Wright. WHAT has got a 'living' grass roof, sun pipes which channel natural light into rooms and a geo-thermal heating system? ...

Camping World reaps a powerful advantage
The Register-Guard - Eugene,Oregon,USA
... The solar technology required a significant upfront cost - more than $400,000 - Nill said. But he regards it as a long-term investment. ...

June 23, 2006

ENI says Europe could face new winter gas crisis
Reuters - USA
... Research) said on Tuesday it shared Russian concerns that Europe may face new shortages in gas supplies this winter if Ukraine fails to fill its underground ...

Unlocking underground secrets
Tonganoxie Mirror - Tonganoxie,KS,USA
Buried underground for thousands of years are the pieces to a puzzle of one ... Brad Logan, associate research professor at KSU and instructor of the field class ...

Canoe trip aimed at copper mine
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
... Franconia's underground mine proposal is about two years behind another copper mine plan by PolyMet Corp. ... "In all the research we've done, we've never found ...

New landslide technology may save lives
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
... up the high frequency sounds that come from moving soil particles underground. ... The entire research project, which is being funded by British Engineering and ...

Notes from the underground
Creative Loafing Atlanta - Atlanta,GA,USA
... which then funnels into an underground circuit of pipes and eventually into a huge tunnel. The building is defined by this entirely hidden function -- the

Museum mementos recount grim time Chicago Tribune - United States
... father, her aunt and uncle and their four children--in an underground silo used ... Every holiday, her uncle recounted the months spent hidden in the silo, searing ...

Southern fault's last big quake was in 1690 -- tick, tick 30 feet .
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... as the 1994 Northridge quake, which struck on an unsuspected hidden fault now ... fault strands sometimes lock while strain builds up deep underground until the ...

Quake shakes eastern county
News-Herald.com - Willoughby,OH,USA
Some described it as an explosion, others say it felt like a giant bowling ball was rolling around underground. Regardless of how ...

Builders hope for profits in green
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... They're also going up against many well-entrenched ideas in the building world. "One of our strategies is to make green homes for the same or less - and that ...

June 21, 2006

World's largest solar plant planned in Bay Area
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA... Backers of solar power said the project is the latest example of how demand for solar is rapidly expanding, and how the technology, once the realm of hippies ...

Work begins on global seed bank on Arctic isle
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
The underground vault on a remote island will hold about 1.5bn seeds and 3mn varieties in a reinforced concrete tunnel drilled 70m into a mountain, guarded by

The Wounded Worshiper
ChristianityToday.com - Carol Stream,IL,USA... I feel much more at home in an underground church in China, Vietnam or Cuba. ... You can read our review of The Hidden Face of God by clicking here. ...

A bunker or an archeological dig?
Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada... there. Dowsers say they can find water, metals and hidden objects underground with the aid of sensitive devining rods. Six Nations ...

Barberton family avoids blast; mom credits strict teacher
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA... exploded around 1:45 pm after a contractor, drilling to install underground wiring for ... in the 200-unit complex, was outside when she heard a large explosion

Coal - the dirty secret behind the Information Age
Augusta Free Press - Waynesboro,VA,USA... In the old days, coal meant underground mining. ... Underground mining has some environmental impacts, too, particularly damage to groundwater. ...

What's wrong with Wakulla Springs?
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA
... Through advances in underground mapping, chemical tracing and understanding of karst ... Dozens of research projects designed to decipher Wakulla's plumbing have ...

Greece-Turkey tension mars Aegean paradise
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA... The issue is the Aegean Sea, which the poet Homer described as "calm as a slumbering babe" -- today a magnet for tourism, a series of pastel-colored vistas ...

June 18, 2006

MHTA Forum to Spotlight Lesher on Energy Challenges, Opportunities
ePrairie - Chicago,IL,USA... Principle among these new thoughts has been its role as the birthplace of countless alternative energy technologies from earth-sheltered to solar to wind. ...

VIP guest warms to 'green' house
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK... The Minister also visited The Eco House, launched by the council last month to provide information to residents, developers, landlords and schoolchildren about ...

Unexplained High Radioactivity Raises Concerns in Thracian Resort
Zaman Online - Istanbul,Turkey
By Cihan News Agency. A beach in the Thracian resort of Ezine was temporarily closed to the public due to the high level of radiation measured there. ...

World War I: Still Ending
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA... hot on July 20, 1944, at Hitler's headquarters at Rastenburg in East Prussia, so his meeting with staff was moved out of the underground bunker, which would ...

Shovels melt in bid to save men trapped by lava
Scotsman - United Kingdom
SOLDIERS wearing heat-retardant clothes braved searing gas clouds yesterday in an attempt to free two men trapped in an underground shelter covered with lava ...

Two found dead in volcano shelter
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Two men who sought shelter from Mount Merapi's scorching gas and debris in an underground bunker on the slopes of the Indonesian mountain were found dead from ...

Organic farming professor receives grant
The Daily Evergreen - Pullman,WA,USA... goes on underground,” Murphy said. “It will let us take a step beyond a traditional breeding program.”. Jones said sometimes university research focuses ...

7 states woo clean-coal power plant
Stateline.org - Washington,DC,USA... for the carbon dioxide that will be captured and pumped underground to reduce the ... and most abundant fossil fuel -- coal -- and to boost research into hydrogen ...

Forest Lab feels budget axe
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA... in the lab's front yard, they're working with industry to develop new deck materials, hail-resistant shingles, and ways to deal with mold problems in energy ...

Geothermal system utilizes Mother Earth
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA... The geothermal system consumes additional electricity to run its components but that extra cost is surpassed by the savings from using the earth as the ...

Green energy plan to use smaller solar tower
ABC Online - Australia... with construction firm Baulderstone Hornibrook for the solar tower, north ... some funding under the Federal Government's Low Emission Technology Demonstration Fund ...

New Solar Village Switched On
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA... New technology allows developers to combine solar power with conventional electricity and lets users pool their own "home-grown" power, said Kobus Carstens ...

The quietest revolution
The Observer - UK... Join the Henry Doubleday Research Association of organic gardening (details at www ... be second nature, be it in humble water butts or the underground tanks which ...

June 14, 2006

Texas Congressman to Introduce 'Solar Utilization Now Act of 2006'
BuildingOnline - Dana Point,CA,USA... This will enable them to buy solar energy panels at nearly half the ... influential people in Washington, DC In 2005, The Information Technology Industry Council ...

With no end in sight to 100-plus degrees, just be glad it's dry ...
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA... record-breaking temperatures made me wonder about other places. So I started researching the hottest day on record and confirmed through the National Weather ...

Advocates urge Ziele Creek restoration
The Argus - Fremont,CA,USA
... the heart of residential Hayward in open concrete channels or underground tunnels. ... It leads west through Holy Sepulchre Cemetery and into a tunnel, coming back ...

‘’Treasure hunters map local mystery, lead an expedition
Kansas City Star - MO,USA... Saturday’s event ended in an east Kansas City neighborhood, where players descended concrete stairs to an underground tunnel.

Course nets 'eco-friendly' brokers
Mountain Mail Newspaper - Salida,CO,USA... As eco-brokers, they will represent “green” homes – built with materials such as straw bale and tires – and energy efficient homes that use solar or ...

Internal Hydro Small Hydro Technology Advantages Explained by ...
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA... Nelson was a former President of a commercial kitchen parts supplier for many years ... created other devices in his business, which led him to the invention of the ...

Around Broadneck: Schools create eco-friendly gardens
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA... On the playground, the rain garden was planted in the path of the rushing rainwater, to slow it down and give it a chance to filter through the soil. ...

Drive Free - Veggie Fuel for your car
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA... I feel like I am just taking the little Black Mistress invention (diesel engine ... Waste vegetable oil is literally used kitchen grease, the processing of which ...

Philippine president orders preparations for volcano eruption
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China... more steam-driven explosions to occur, citing the volcano's previous record ... elevated level of volcanic activity, which may produce hazardous magmatic eruption. ...

Happy times at the sink
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada... splitting, stacking, carrying and burning wood, and I think commodes were a grand invention. ... Over the winter, Newman and I had the old kitchen ripped out of ...

A dirty job, but someone had to do it The Saratogian - Saratoga,NY,USA... Holland of Greenfield was surprised to hear recently that all the tunnel rats in ... him for the dangerous job of exploring the complex underground tunnels created ...

Ultimate Tree Houses
Luxist - Santa Monica,CA,USA
I never had a tree that was suitable for a tree house where I grew up and I suspect that even if I had had one, I wouldn't have had a tree house anyway. ...

Local man's creation earns him a spot on national TV.
WROC - Rochester,NY,USA
... his labor of love. It all started seven years ago when Barkley's grandchildren begged him to build a tree house. He says, "I was ...

What a drip: Students go deep to learn
New River Valley Current - Christiansburg,VA,USA... "They're not formed by an underground stream nor ... They could climb around the obstacle, or crawl on their bellies through a narrow tunnel that ran underneath it ..

June 12, 2006

Expert touts 'green' homes
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States SARASOTA - Energy efficient homes, often called "green" homes, will revolutionize the real estate industry, changing how homes are sold, appraised and financed ...

Maine Homebuilder Goes "Deep Green"
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA.. Many builders and remodelers claim to build "green" homes, but custom builder Peter Taggart says a lot of so-called green building is simply "greenwashing. ...

Power vets want to start incubator for clean energy
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA... with new ideas for fuel cells, hydrogen storage systems, solar power and other ... the incubator, including seeking space at the McClellan Technology Incubator in ...

His home is his fortress
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
From outside, it looks like a fortified bunker but, CHIN MUI YOON discovers, the facade conceals a ... Often, it’s the hidden details that make a beautiful home. ...

[Country Report] A Country Where Marvels Never Cease
Korea Times - South Korea
... Caves and underground rivers taunt and mesmerize ... volcano itself lies in the middle of another lake formed from the remains of a much earlier, larger explosion. .

Research may help forecast aftershocks
The Argus - Fremont,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES — New research suggests earthquake shaking can trigger aftershocks many ... believe aftershocks come from changes in underground stress patterns ...

Consumers warm to Geothermal heating and cooling
KARE - Minneapolis,MN,USA
... As it turns out his secret weapon in the fight against high energy bills is ... Klein elaborates about the underground geothermal loops, "They're 180 feet in the ...

Osborne: Micro renewable energy great opportunity for UK economy
Conservatives.com - UK
... appealing for the mass market. So the technology is out there. Solar power. Wind power. Biomass. And increasingly, these micro-renewable ...

Generating new ideas on energy
Santa Monica Daily Press - Santa Monica,CA,USA
... Munves, her staff also will have to invest a lot of time and money into educating the public about the project and the benefits of installing solar technology. ...

Make your home fire-resistant
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... metal roofing material, terra cotta tiles or lightweight concrete composite materials. ... brick, stucco and man-made products, such as cement fiber board, are ..

Domestic wind turbine set for Brum eco home
ic Birmingham.co.uk - Birmingham,UK
By Sarah Probert. The first domestic wind turbine has been put up in Birmingham on one of the city's first eco-friendly homes. The ...

Underground caves at heart of debate over planned Wal-Mart
High Springs Heralds - High Springs,FL,USA... But this worries the NSS, whose members say that relatively quickly, water will hit underground pockets without having proper filtration and flow into the ...

June 9, 2006

More Western Cities Adopt Sustainable Development Practices New West - Missoula,MT,USA... in town that is built using almost all materials found within the area — which has become a business in and of itself— including a grass roof that helps ..

GIMME SHELTER-Rock on! Building a wall takes patience
The Hook - Charlottesville,VA,USA... Find out how rainwater will flow past the wall by running a hose or sprinkler or simply ... You can buy stones on pallets at a garden store, or in bulk, or you can ...

Spring of 2006 warmest on record in Canada, says Environment ...
Canoe.ca - Canada... Yet there have been few indications of what it will look like. Whitewood said that more record-breaking weather can be expected in coming years. ...

Hammering out new housing
Affordable Housing Finance - San Francisco,CA,USA
... installing new refrigerators, stoves, and tubs in a 128-unit garden apartment complex ... roofs and windows that opened up second-story units to rainwater damage. ...

“”GO UNDERGROUND IN OTTAWA - Discover the Diefenbunker, Canada ...
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - USA... the most unique historic sites in Canada. It is an underground nuclear bomb proof bunker. This immense structure was built in secrecy ...

Botanics unveils a clear vision for glass-walled visitor centre
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... The roof of the building will collect rainwater which will be used to flush the ... The designers have also looked at the wildlife in the garden, and have included ...

Aldinga - new settlement in an old landscape
On Line opinion - Australia
... These take winter's rainwater to storage in the small dams seen throughout the ... In her front yard is a vegetable garden that yields fresh, organically grown ...

Study: Ground-shaking, not underground stress, causes aftershocks
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES - New research suggests ground-shaking from an earthquake, not underground stress, can trigger far-away aftershocks. ...

Temperatures to remain high through next week
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA... An unprecedented, record-breaking heat wave that first pushed temperatures into the 90s ... air from reaching the Denver area, causing the unusually hot weather. ...

The walls of Potato Cave hold a question about Acton's past
Boston Globe - United States
... it. Some people have theorized that Colonial farmers built the structure as a root cellar, cider storage room, or animal shed. Others ...

June 7, 2006

Hitler's Berlin bunker to be marked with sign
Expatica - Netherlands
... The bunker where Hitler killed himself in 1945 to avoid capture by Red ... attempts were made by communist officials to demolish the huge underground complex in ...

Bone voyage!
Scripps Howard News Service - Washington,DC,USA
... The French Resistance used the tunnel network during World War II, which was not unusual, since the Germans had established an underground bunker of their own ...

GE, PowerLight Break Ground on World's Largest Solar Photovoltaic ...
Finanzen.net - Germany
... must not be a singlecase but a true starting point for solar power in ... The company's patented tracking technology followsthe sun as it moves across the sky ...

CAT Gets New Green Education Building
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
... Among the innovative features of the building will be construction of rammed earth walls in the Institute’s lecture theatre, the use of natural ventilation ...

Bomb detection firm 'on side of the angels'
Guelph Mercury (subscription) - Ontario, Canada
... He was impressed at how quickly the canine found a hidden training device mimicking ... The company trains these dogs in part at a bunker in an undisclosed location ...

June 6, 2006

A mosque links 6 of 17 seized in Toronto plot
International Herald Tribune - France... has so far led to little public disclosure about the underground workings of ... expressed puzzlement over how and where the suspects could have hidden three tons ...

Key Navy Facility Tucked Away in Landlocked Idaho
Kitsap Sun (Subscription) - WA, United States... The futuristic technology creates a little bit of excitement in an otherwise quaint landscape, said Bier, who commutes to Spokane for work.

Bow-Tied Commodity Bull
Smartmoney.com - USA
... Wind, solar and geothermal hold promise, as do biomass-generated power and ... a national birthright, gobbling up gasoline, natural gas, electricity, timber, steel ...

‘’Building for a greener future
Shropshire Star - Telford,England,UK... Among the building’s innovative features will be construction of rammed-earth walls in the Institute’s lecture theatre, the use of natural ventilation ...

Beaver dams create healthy downstream ecosystems
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA... The results will be published 8 June in Water Resources Research, a journal ... changes caused water to infiltrate the river banks and flow underground toward the ...

Why deserts will inherit the Earth
Independent - London,England,UK... Rocks beneath the Sahara contain the largest underground reservoir of fresh water in ... Claussen at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany ...

In a tale of 2 sewer systems, Chicago dumps more, but less into ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA... Milwaukee's own roughly 24-mile underground sewage tunnel system has vastly curbed dumping, Shafer said in his memo sent to more than 2,000 local media and ...

Pharming Underground
Popular Science - New York,NY,USA... All things considered, a properly run underground facility “would probably be an order of magnitude safer” than a surface operation for a typical crop such

Breeding tanks enhance aquaculture education at Herring Gut ...
VillageSoup Belfast - ME, USA
... June 1): Students at Herring Gut Learning Center will soon try their hand at breeding tilapia as part of their science curriculum in the aquaponics greenhouse. ...

DIY Electricity
Hartford Courant - United States
... The photovoltaic cells convert sunlight into electricity through the use of solar cells ... Fostini now plans to look at a geothermal system for his home, in which ...

Good Enough To Eat: With proper storage, most crops survive quite ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... Perhaps you're wondering why I haven't mentioned root cellars. The main reason is that we don't need them west of the Cascades.

Eco-building design, materials catch on
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA... extra for a geothermal heating and cooling system instead of the standard electric model. On the other hand, in the age of cheap electricity, solar panels ...

GE Energy technology figures in projects
Atlanta Business Chronicle - Atlanta,GA,USA... percent of its net electricity sales from renewable energy sources by 2020. HELCO, already derives 29 percent of its power sales from wind and geothermal power ...

Region could tap rivers in SC, Tenn.
MSNBC - USA... And New York in 1970 began work on a $6 billion, 1.3 billion-gallon underground water tunnel running 60 miles to reservoirs north of the city. ...

Picture of chaos after blasts triggers calls for public inquiry
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... Radio systems did not work underground and it was claimed that no fire engines ... ambulance to arrive at King's Cross, half an hour after the explosion in the ...

Stoughton's Main Street Market is closing
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA... Main Street Market has people who do nothing but raise brown eggs to sell at the store and a dozen people who would go out and hunt morel mushrooms, he said. ..

Saudi Arabia and military expenditures: When will the House of ...
Online Journal - Silver Springs,FL,USA... arming Israel and Saudi Arabia with its largest bunker busting bombs ... with them the means for striking the Islamic Republic’s underground nuclear installations ...

What the Aegean crisis makes us think
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
A Turkish F-16 was harassed over the Aegean Sea in international airspace and a Greek pilot lost his life. This unfortunate incident ...

One dead in Aegean ship collision
BBC News - UK
A sailor has been killed and five are missing after two ships collided in the Aegean sea, Greek officials say. Seven more sailors ...

June 5, 2006

Caught, released, gone underground
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Michael Martinez. BROWNSVILLE, Texas -- Before dawn on the Rio Grande one day last week, Border Patrol agents caught Teodoro Escobar .

This season, all hurricane bets are on
Miami Herald - FL,USA... you can bet on it!'' Dr. Howard declared from the underground bunker in the Mojave Desert from which he has tracked tropical cyclones for the last two decades. ...

Building a showcase for green design
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA... The actual demonstration garden will hold plants beneficial to birds, small mammals and insects. Rainwater is collected from the south rook, stored in barrels ...

’Chinas dirty secret
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA... published in February by France’s main news service, Agence France-Presse, independent estimates put the number of fatalities for underground workers in ...

Uneasy homesteaders in the promised land
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA... He sat playing with a shovel nearby, asking when were we going to Olive Garden. ... I used the falling rainwater to wash the ants off him with my hands, still in

Re-energizing the search for oil shale
Grand Junction Sentinel - Grand Junction,CO,USA... Shell is currently using electric power as the source to heat rock underground to 700 degrees Fahrenheit and keep it that ... We’re still in a research mode here

A grow-op in disguise
Abbotsford News - BC, Canada
... On Tuesday afternoon, Abbotsford Police discovered a two-level underground bunker in rural Abbotsford that housed more than 1,300 mature marijuana plants in ...

June 4, 2006

Indonesians won't abandon Fire Mountain
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada... Yogyakarta, ancient capital and cultural capital, will stand. ... intermittently destroying, requiring placation and control, a beauty and a mystery, and sometimes ...

The day the world was blown apart
The Observer - UK... that experienced soldiers tell you if you don't hear the sound of an explosion you are ... But at that moment, at underground zero, I wasn't connecting such things ...

Underground Fires in St. Mary Parish
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
It's hard to believe, but the fire causing smoke in woods near Patterson has been raging for more than two months - underground.

Four lightning strikes in Mobile destroy 2 homes, injure 2
Times Daily - Florence,AL,USA
... Clarissa Mosley and her two grandchildren were inside the house at 6509 Creekwood Court heard a loud boom, followed by flames burning the living room curtains ...

Starving space science
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA... been more surprising than evidence that geysers are erupting from underground pools on ... to the moon, it's gutting money for robust space science research to pay

Bombs Away?
Popular Science - New York,NY,USA
According to the US Department of Defense, hundreds of underground bunkers in enemy ... in May, the 150-page report concludes that the “bunker buster” would ...

Powerful odours from old landfill to create power
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
... to a puddle of water with bubbles from the methane gas coming from underground. ... project will benefit the utility by reducing the amount of coal or bunker C oil ...

Bird Flu On Your Cellphone
Medgadget.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... So I've sold all of my Google stock to fund the building of an underground bunker, complete with a T1 connection so that I can still receive updates from ...

June 3, 2006

Wal-Mart stores change, steer clear of compact design
Benton County Daily Record - Bentonville,AR,USA
... city. The idea is so unique that community officials requested an observation tower so local students can view the grass roof. Wal

Underground Zero
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
By ADAM HARVEY in NEW YORK. THEY had to visit one of the world's most crowded places for some anonymity, but Brant Webb and Todd ...

At the pinnacle of home technology
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA, USA
... overlooking the solar panels that heat his home's pool and spa. Such unexpected demands have joined home theater in pushing the high-end home technology market ...

June 1, 2006

Green building goes big
CNNMoney.com - USA
... green home design has gotten much more mainstream, according to architect Steve Novy, whose Colorado firm, Green Line Architects, specializes in green homes.

Java quake spawns new volcano eruption fears
Discovery Reports Canada - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... earthquake shows about three times the level of activity at the volcano, when compared ... the release of volcanic pressure in the form of an eruption by shifting ...

Delays plague US plan to require border IDs
Globe and Mail - Canada
WASHINGTON, GIMLI, MAN. -- A top US government agency says that plans to force travellers crossing the US-Canada border to use passports

Hurricane Season Starts Today
Central Florida News 13 - Orlando,FL,USA
... the 2006 storm season will be busy but not like last year's record-breaking year. ... We check the tropics at :21 and :51 after every hour with your Weather on the ...

Barbadians have 50 per cent stake in Nigerian solar water-heating ...
Barbados Advocate - Barbados
... He said opportunities in sugar cane technology, solar energy technology, tourism management services, small business development services, agriculture

‘s Newest Alternative Fuel: Miracle Manure
Christian Broadcasting Network - Virginia Beach,VA,USA
... Eric Leonhardt, director of the Vehicle Research Institute at Western Washington University in ... The manure stews in an underground tank for about three weeks. ...

Unique Underground Ecosystem Revealed by HU Researchers Uncovers ...
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Israel... The lake’s temperature and salinity indicates that its source is deep underground. ... Frumkin, who heads the unit for cave research in the Department of