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March 25, 2008 Tuesday
A Visit To The Doomsday Vault
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
Scientists are collecting a billion and a half seeds from all the world's crops to keep in safe storage deep inside a mountain near the North Pole. ...
NASA expert to address Earth's vanishing polar ice April 10 at UD
University of Delaware - Newark,DE,USA
Waleed Abdalati is head of the Cryospheric Sciences Branch at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. 2:33 pm, March 21, 2008--From research camps atop glaciers ...
Sustainable Living: Geothermal systems pay off in the long run
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
Webber's system worked because air temperatures change constantly, yet soil temperature in the earth's upper 10 feet stay consistently between 50 and 60 ...
Got Houseplants? Get Inspired by Grand Greenhouses
Daily Green - USA
Botanic gardens, universities and colleges all over the country have greenhouses full of wonderful plants, and these include (more often than not) humongous ...
Major food source threatened by climate change
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
It is also hard to know whether results from experiments in greenhouses with artificial climates will hold true in the real world. ...
The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won ...
Axis of Logic - Boston,MA,USA
And, as an old farmer pointed out, even the trees have stopped bearing fruit because heavy use of pesticides has killed the pollinators — the bees and ...
‘’Mountain of God spews out its wrath after series of tremors
Daily Nation - Nairobi,Kenya
The remote area is well-known throughout Tanzania for its high temperatures despite being sheltered by the mountain. Government authorities in Ngorongoro ...
Panel power and no hassle!
Forres Gazette - Forres,Scotland,UK
By Tanya McLaren WIND turbines could be springing up in gardens all over Moray following proposals to relax the planning laws governing installation of ...
ENVIRONMENT-PORTUGAL: Enjoying the Outdoors in a Greener Lisbon
Inter Press Service (subscription) - Rome,Italy
The city government will instal "several 10-metre tall wind turbines, positioning them like street lamps, in order to call attention to alternative forms of ...
Larry Fahn: Marin needs to step up on energy/climate change
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
Homeowners, business or others who install solar panels, wind turbines or other technology to produce renewable energy will be paid by their local utility ...
Gloucester wind turbine plan getting 2nd look
Gloucester Daily Times - MA, USA
The roof of the low-slung, three-story building, seemingly inspired by stealth airplane technology, is to be planted and mowed. ...
Popular energy: Turbines, etc.
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA
There is a lot still to be learned, but you have to wonder how that would work on a house roof. In a recent article, I said the present system for ...
Save the Good Bugs, Blast the Bad
Kitsap Sun (Subscription) - WA, United States
To protect beneficial bugs like ladybugs, bees, and other native pollinators, avoid toxic chemical pesticides. Many have a broad-spectrum kill effect and ...
Is this the greenest city in the world?
The Observer - UK
On the way to Vauban, he shows us two of his projects - the school gymnasium next to Santa Maria Magdalena Church, built partly underground using timber and ...
4 Found Safe, Pulled From Tenn. Cave
The Associated Press -
Once they discovered they couldn't get out, they apparently called for help but couldn't be heard over the sound of underground waterfalls.
’Shanghai to build countrys first underground theater
Associated Press of Pakistan - Pakistan
BEIJING, Mar 23 (APP) : Shanghai will renovate Culture Square in Xuhui District and turn it into the country’s first underground theater before Shanghai ...
March 18, 2008 Tuesday
These green houses grow from friends of the earth
Palm Beach Post - FL, United States
John Eriksen, behind his solar-powered Okeechobee home, grew up on a ranch where his family generated its own electricity with wind turbines. ...
Plants that you can keep going in winter
Detroit Free Press - United States
Ask a greenhouse which category yours falls into. Orchids bloom for a long period of time. They start once a year and bloom incrementally along the stalk.
Greenhouse brings summer inside in the winter
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
By next winter, you could have more living space, lower heating costs and a year-round garden in most climates. And all for about one-fourth the cost of ...
First look at World War I cave city that housed 25000 troops under ...
Daily Mail - UK
The Arras attack was set for Easter 1917 and, a week before, the generals started filling up their underground city. It had to be done in total secrecy. ...
Energy-generating wind turbine at UH
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
The PacWind SeaHawk vertical axis wind turbine \is being donated by the Energy Management Group to UH Manoa for installation on the roof of Saunders Hall, ...
More Information Needed On Microgeneration
CarbonFree News - Cambridge,UK
A variety of units such as roof-top wind turbines or solar panels can be used to generate electricity in the home. The Climate Change and Sustainable Energy ...
Bumblebee ID simplified with wallet card
High Plains Journal - Dodge City,KS,USA
Agricultural Research Service bee expert James Cane has helped make the differences among these plump, fuzzy pollinators a little simpler to detect. ...
SRS Solar Tiles Give You Green Power Without the Eyesore
Uber-Review - USA
They can be built into a conventional tiled roof and are easily installed. SRS Energy not only provide electricity generating Active tiles, ...
Scuba Diving In Merida Mexico
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA
Calcehtok – This underground tunnel system, which lies 32 km (20 mi) from the town of Muna, is the ideal spot to cave dive in crystalline waters.
Under our feet: the future of the Yorkshire Dales
Daelnet - Skipton,England,UK
... the scientific investigation of Ease Gill Cavern, near Ingleton, searching for clues for the great stresses and strains which created this underground ...
Turkey's rocks of ages: 'Fairy chimneys,' tunnel cities of Cappadocia
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Like the troglodytes 4000 years ago, our family of four sleeps that first night in a cave hollowed out from the soft tuff of volcanic rock. ...
–Amazing natural beauty of Phong Nha Ke Bang
VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi,Vietnam
So far, over 300 caves have been founded in Phong Nha – Ke Bang, which were created by underground rivers running from limestone mountains.
Underground Legends
TriCities.com - Johnson City,TN,USA
BY Joe Tennis People just go underground, many never knowing, it would seem, that what we now call “Bristol Caverns” was once called “Bishop’s Cave. ...
Snow-Shortened Safari Leads To Waterfall Wonders
Springdale Morning News - Springdale,AR,USA
They disappeared on a belly-crawl father back into the cave to see an underground waterfall that spills about 35 feet. The flashlight deprived can walk ...
New tour debuts at Natural Bridge Caverns
Herald Zeitung - New Braunfels,TX,USA
By Georgia Fisher Two never-before-seen underground chambers are now open to the public at Natural Bridge Caverns. Characterized by rare “soda straw” ...
Black Hills Travel
Black Hills Today - Deadwood,SD,USA
Eight Black Hills caves are open to the public. Two are part of the National Park Service: Jewel Cave National Monument and Wind Cave National Park
Nigeria: How Mysterious Fire Rendered Villagers Homeless
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
A mysterious fire which started when there were no male members of a village has razed down most houses in Saifawa Unguwar Jajaye in Dawakin-Kudu local ...
Moss appeal
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Heating and air conditioning would be provided by a geothermal system – a network of underground pipes. It would also service the nearby arena and community ...
Going green: Paying the price to save energy
Burlington Times News - Burlington,NC,USA
Installing a geothermal heating and cooling pump is a good beginning too. These work like regular heat pumps, but instead of exchanging hot and cold air ...
Global Warming and Capitalism: As the Ice Melts, the Land Rush Begins
Infoshop News - USA
And the whole world is inter- ested and not just in the Northwest Pas- sage, but in all of the Arctic and North Pole. A United Nations treaty called the UN ...
March 11, 2008 Tuesday
Mysterious power at the heart of gold
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
But accurately forecasting gold prices is almost impossible because gold is the most infuriating, mystery-laded speculative commodity on earth. ...
Firm takes challenge of reinventing Atlanta
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Some of the storm runoff that now disappears into underground pipes would be captured and cleansed in wetlands. Today's sewer tunnels would be used to store ...
Inner Space Cavern turns kids into curious cavers
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
Otherwise I can't explain why two reasonably smart adults would think that going 70 feet underground with a rambunctious 4-year-old boy sounded like a great ...
Doomsday sect's cave safe from danger of flooding - for now
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
... they were ready to launch an operation to rescue the sect members in the event of the cave being submerged by underground waters in the spring thaw. ...
Lava Lovers Dodge Molten Rocks to Watch Volcano Erupt (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
... methane explosions, poison gas and eggshell lava -- a thin crust of rock that could crumble under your feet, dropping you into an underground cavern. ...
Resort with a cold war secret
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Linda Walls, who manages tours of the bunker, said the two floors 40 feet underground now bring in revenue from admission fees, use as a data storage center ...
Some Grand Central Terminal Secrets Revealed
Gothamist - NY,USA
In one part of the vast underground labyrinth, sitting under the Waldorf-Astoria hotel for decade, there's a special train car and station built for
Seed savvy gives gardens a head start
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
After stratification is complete, the plants can be moved to a lighted greenhouse that is warm; this treatment is called vernalization.
Dwarf avocado varieties can thrive in greenhouses
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
Is there a way to grow them in a greenhouse in containers and get them to produce avocados? A . A mature avocado tree may grow 50 feet high and 20 feet ...
Arctic's vanishing ice spurs climate alarm
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
By KEVIN CRUSH Arctic ice will continue to shrink as the climate heats up, says a University of Alberta researcher. Christian Haas says that last summer's ...
Scientist fuses man and machine
EastOregonian.info (subscription) - OR,USA
Todd and two friends "built the most magnificent tree house in the state," said Frank, who now lives in Twin Falls, Idaho. Todd's dad, Bill Kuiken
CAT building to use hemp walls
Green Building Press - Llandysul,Wales,UK
These all incorporate other carbon-saving materials and technologies, for example, the circular 200-seat lecture theatre will have 7.2m high rammed earth ...
March 4, 2008 Tuesday
Ocean cooling may solve mystery
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
The new evidence could reinforce modern climate models that had struggled to explain the ancient behaviour of ice sheets. "Now we can have more confidence
Breaking News: South Lebanon struck by a small earthquake
Ya Libnan - Beirut,Lebanon
The aftershock was felt as far as Bint Jbeil near the Israeli border An earthquake measuring an estimated at 5.1 degrees on the Richter scale struck Beirut, ...
Switching to wood power revives wholesale florist
American Farm - Easton,MD,USA
Family owned and operated since 1875, the wholesale florist was facing, like others in the industry, skyrocketing energy costs to heat its greenhouses and ...
Study indicates a decline of a vanishing icon
Park Rapids Enterprise - Park Rapids,MN,USA
Minnesota’s moose are in trouble. The population of this iconic mammal that symbolizes the northern Minnesota landscape is in decline. ...
Rockford Urban Ministries has high hopes for wind turbine
Rockford Register Star - Rockford,IL,USA
The nonprofit group wants to install a turbine, plus a solar power array, on the roof of 201 S. Seventh St. by year’s end. The electricity generated will ...
Northwestern team's coating may improve solar cells
Chicago Tribune - United States
... genetics and behavior in bees. Given the economic importance of honeybees to agriculture, this could turn out to be of more than academic relevance.
Earthquake Rattles US-Mexico Border
KNBC.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
An earthquake rocked portions of Baja and San Diego and Imperial counties on Tuesday. According to the USGS, the earthquake struck at 2:41 pm and was
Business gazetteer: 'Survivors' shaken into a spending spree
Scotsman - United Kingdom
SCOTTISH retailers will be crossing their fingers for an earthquake north of the Border after a bizarre report claimed the areas close to the epicentre of ...
California Town Rattled by Earthquakes Fears `Big One' Is Next
Bloomberg - USA
``We are structurally safe on our side of the border,'' the mayor said. ``We have been building our structures to make them earthquake-proof. ...
Agenda for the North American Summit
Center for Research on Globalization - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... whether US troops will cross the border to help in Canada in the event of a terror attack, flu pandemic, earthquake or some other domestic emergency. ...
Sweet, Tricky, Sticky (and Not From Vermont)
New York Times - United States
By JAN ELLEN SPIEGEL IN the world of maple syrup, Connecticut is small but mighty. It ranks last among the 10 maple syrup-producing states, with a meager 1
Earthquake: Ancient fault zone could be to blame
Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool,UK
AN ANCIENT fault zone which could have remained dormant for millions of years was last night pinpointed as a possible cause of the earthquake which rocked ...
Valley philanthropist John F. Long dies at 87
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The subdivision also used an updated version of "rammed earth" construction, which had been used by the ancient Hohokam people. Long's crews mixed desert
Fiery beauty as old man rumbles
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The Blue Cave is snorkellers' adventure trip to a stunning underground cave. But the best snorkelling we discovered was straight off the edge of the island ...
Giant cheese cave gives small makers new opportunities
Boston Globe - United States
With seven arched vaults, and 12000 square feet underground, the Cellars at Jasper Hill look more like a massive war relic than a haven for healthy and ...
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