August

Explosion In Underground Vault In Culver City
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
CULVER CITY (CBS) ―? An explosion in an underground vault in Culver City today resulted in damage to a couple of vehicles parked nearby, but no one was hurt, ...

Committee may form to discuss Salado Creek issues
Temple Daily Telegram - Temple,TX,USA
The hole is part of a larger spring that runs through an underground cave beneath the Stagecoach Inn. According to an article in the Telegram last year, ...

Cave explorer plumbs new depths in Mayo
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
The river runs underground some 10km southeast of Westport, and reappears three kilometres further on at Bellaburke where the underground cavern is located.

Groups oppose plans to close abandoned mines
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Louis Admodt, project manager for the mining division, said there are myriad dangers underground, such as cave-ins and pockets of black damp, ...

Here Comes the Solar Bus
Daily Green - USA
He claims to have designed a miniature wind turbine that mounts on your roof and costs between $780 and $1250. Starck said his clear plastic-bladed turbine ...

Save money and the planet: generate your own power
Independent - London,England,UK
Although Tory leader David Cameron may have a wind turbine attached to the roof of his home in Notting Hill, don't be fooled into thinking that micro-wind ...

Solar panels law makes greens see red
Scotland on Sunday - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
From his balcony, Schoenherr can see the town's famous hilltop Gothic castle, as well as two of its three power-generating wind turbines. On his roof ...

Starck turbine creates green juice for homes
Times Online - UK
“One is that it’s deftly designed, not least because the blades are made of transparent plastic which will be virtually invisible up on the roof,” Rawsthorn

The Sump Pump's Fault, or Yours?
Washington Post - United States
By Ann Cameron Siegal Rob Traister of Front Royal, Va., recently renovated and moved into his childhood home, a 1940s Cape Cod with an underground basement ...

Magnitude 6.0 quake struck off Sichuan-Gansu border region, China
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
The epicenter of the earth quake is located at 32.810°N, 105.556°E at a depth of 10 km. The epicenter is 50 km NNW from Guangyuan, Sichuan, 140 km WSW from ...

Howe Caverns has plans for making a splash
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
They are in the process of restoring the nearby Cave House Hotel, which they're turning into a museum on mining. There are more long-term plans for the ...

Honecker's nuclear bunker opens
BBC News - UK
They will be led along submarine-like tunnels divided by heavy metal doors, leading on to 170 rooms. The three storeys reach a depth of 70m (230ft) below ...

The Wind Technician Boom is Here
CleanTechnica - San Francisco,CA,USA
According to that same association, there are now more than 25000 wind turbines out there, with nowhere near enough people to service them.

~The magic of wind power
Examiner.com - USA
Chris Beaudoin, above, shows how the turbine installed on the roof of his home in the Castro district works. SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - Scores of windmills ...

Sainsbury's turbine plan blows up a storm
This is the Sentinel - Derby,England,UK
... why don't they stick solar panels on their roof?" Ecotricity wants to build a utility switch house on the site as well as the 800kW turbine. ...

The Wind Farmers of East 11th Street
New York Times - United States
Finding and restoring an old farm turbine for the windmill was easy enough, but erecting the windmill, even after all the pieces were carried up to the roof ...

Harmony seeks new buyer for Mt Magnet mine
Mining MX - Sandton,South Africa
[miningmx.com] -- HARMONY Gold has put its mothballed Mt Magnet mine back up for sale after a A$65m deal with Australian junior Monarch Gold collapsed after

—North Woodstock site drawing visitors and butterflies
NewHampshire.com - Manchester,NH,USA
The adventurous can follow it through caves with names like the Lemon Squeezer, the Center of the Earth and Shadow Cave. Those who love waterfalls will want

~New Power Cables Must Go Underground, Campaigners Say
istockAnalyst.com - Salem,OR,USA
ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners yesterday said they hope new power cables to carry electricity generated by wind farms will lie underground. ...

Delving into the world beneath us
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
The only question is, can he get there? cavers often find themselves as they explore underground. Edinburgh is famous for its supposedly haunted underground ...

Wind turbine will be first of its kind in area
Spalding Today - Spalding,England,UK
Good progress is being made on SEArch Architects' eco-friendly business campus in Gedney Road, which will be the largest earth sheltered development of its ...

June 2008

Green Dream
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
Projects get points for reducing energy consumption with solar or geothermal heating and good insulation, lowering water intake and using recycled or ...

Magma force: clean energy lights up Chiantishire
Independent - London,England,UK
Geothermal power, an ancient energy source, is enjoying its own Italian renaissance, fuelling 25 per cent of electricity use in Tuscany. ...

Turning the desert into a wasteland
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
That attitude, according to which plans for an ecologically vulnerable and earthquake-prone region can be approved without conducting in-depth studies

Rift extends for 15 km along ground after Tohoku earthquake
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
Across four of the five points, a rift extending for about 10 kilometers has appeared along an old fault on the border between Iwate and Miyagi prefectures.

China rushes to fix dams, 9000 sq miles flooded
Reuters - USA
"The Sichuan earthquake was a natural disaster," said a resigned Zhang Shang, 59, as he rowed his family across the flood waters in Fengkou, a town of about ...

Earthquakes strike Panama, Costa Rica
Xinhua - China
... Rica reported an earthquake of 5.3 degrees on the Richter scale in the South of Costa Rica, near the border with Panama at 11:42 am local time (1742 GMT

City pipes down
Canoe.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
In a city like Ottawa, where crews deal with an average of one underground pipe failure daily, trenchless liners are a cheaper and less disruptive way to ...

New Castle streets caving in
Indianapolis Star - United States
York said the city has received more than 3 inches of rain in fast and hard storms in recent days, and the force of the rain draining into the underground ...

Three moderate earthquakes jolt China in one day
Xinhua - China
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 2:05 pm. The epicenter was located along the border between Oroqen Banner ...

Quake in Lebanon shakes northern Israel
Ynetnews - Israel
A moderate earthquake shook the north of Israel on Thursday. Ynet received calls from northern residents living near the Lebanese border who said they felt ...

Energy adviser: Systems can help reduce electricity costs
The Columbian - Vancouver,WA,USA
But siting wind turbines can be tough because they require lots of space and a steady breeze to be most effective. Micro-hydro turbines are even tougher to ...

The Geology of Cool
New York Times - United States
ENERGY WITHIN Builders of 180 East 93rd Street are installing geothermal technology. But burrowing is exactly what geothermal heat pumps do to reduce

Wind debate splits Bisbee
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Some residents of the southeastern Arizona city support the renewable-energy source, while others don't want to see or hear turbines, typically hundreds of ...

Is energy solution under Oregon volcano?
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
by Gail Kinsey Hill, The Oregonian DON RYAN/APA worker steps down from the drilling platform under a warm mid-May sun at the Newberry Crater geothermal ...

Two entrepreneurs say they have plans to use mines for geothermal ...
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
Called geothermal energy, the idea is to let the Earth’s near-constant sub-surface temperature do most of the heating and cooling work, saving property ...

Tunnels under Manchester
Manchester Confidential - Manchester,England,UK
It was only taken off the secret list in 1968, but the full picture has yet to be made public. Apparently, Catholic pilgrims walked from 16th century ...

’Quakes: the Earths way of releasing stress
ic Wales - United Kingdom
... the Sichuan-Gansu border region, in China, an aftershock of the major earthquake that hit the country on May 12 and measured 7.8 on the Richter scale. ...

Residents stay in tents as homes damaged by aftershock in NW China
Xinhua - China
The county is located at the border between Shaanxi and Sichuan Province, which was struck by a magnitude 8.0 earthquake on May 12.

Quake rumbles Panama, Costa Rica border
USA Today - USA
PANAMA CITY (AP) — A magnitude-5.2 earthquake rumbled through the banana-growing border region of Panama and Costa Rica on Monday, damaging at least three ...

An earthquake-induced ceasefire, or a genuine truce?
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
And the concern doesn't stop at the Sichuan border. The fact nearly 7000 schoolrooms collapsed in Sichuan has parents across China worried. ...

ISRAEL: Natural surprises underground
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
In early May a tractor carrying out development work for a sewage line exposed the small entrance to a cave in Israel's western Galilee. ...

'Green' visitor center planned for state caves
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
Carbon dating determined the artifacts were from 850 years ago, and Aaberg thinks there is more further underground. "We really need to do more ...

Underground Texas
Woodlands Online, LLC - The Woodlands,TX,USA
But Texas also has a less familiar attraction: some 3000 caves that make up a vast expanse of underground wonder. Texas has more caves than any other state. ...

Experts inspect cave-in
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
“But we could not anticipate the cave-in. Water leaking from the underground pipe had loosened the soil, resulted in the subsidence. ...

American Journeys A Park in Kentucky That Shines Brightest Below ...
New York Times - United States
By HENRY FOUNTAIN MY brief Floyd Collins moment came about 100 feet underground in Mammoth Cave, face-down on a rock slab. ...

May 2008

Moderate quake hits Panama-Costa Rica border
Reuters - USA
WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - A moderate earthquake of 5.2 magnitude struck on the Pacific coast side of the Panama-Costa Rican border on Monday, ...

From waste heat to tethered tornados
Business Green - London,England,UK
Perhaps not surprisingly, at least one of them comes from the geothermal area. Raser Technologies cut its teeth creating geothermal heating systems that

Official Newspaper of the Town of Shelter Island and the Village ...
Shelter Island Reporter - Shelter Island,NY,USA
Residential geothermal systems use groundwater as a source of warmth or cooling for heating and air conditioning systems. By pumping the groundwater through ...

Slashing Energy Costs
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
When CNC moved into its headquarters to Tolland, CT, in 1989, company President Mark Summers requested geothermal heat pump systems be installed.

Down on the server farm
Economist - UK
Iceland has begun to market itself as a prime location for data centres, again for the cool climate, but also because of its abundant geothermal energy. ...

Group wants power lines near lagoon to be buried
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... the city of San Diego's jurisdiction, while the remaining six are in Del Mar. Benedict, former chairman of the Del Mar Underground Utility Committee, ...

Strong Quake Rocks Sichuan-Gansu Border Region
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
... earthquake in south-western Sichuan province, with the death toll exceeding 50000, another earthquake rocked Sichuan-Gansu border region early Sunday. ...

Warming up to a geothermal system
Baltimore Sun - United States
... homes have geothermal systems, from condos in Ocean City to expansive homes in Harford County. Skyrocketing home air-conditioning and heating costs

Drilling for a different kind of fuel
Rockford Register Star - Rockford,IL,USA
... drills 300 feet deep holes behind the Lantow building on Seventh Street in Rockford as work begins on Rockford Geothermal's geothermal heating system. ...

Two rescued after 80 hours underground
央?瘺? - Beijing,China
Two more of the victims trapped in earthquake debris in Deyang city have returned from the brink of death. Trapped for 80 hours the victims finally ...

Texas Sinkhole Puts Spotlight On Oil, Gas Drilling
Wall Street Journal - USA
That could lead to the contamination of underground drinking-water supplies, the pollution of soil and surface water, and more sinkholes as underground ...

Underground steam lines in Erie won't be removed
Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA
Abandoned, asbestos-lined underground steam lines in Erie will not have to be removed. The city and Sewer Authority wanted the lines removed as part of a ...

Mystical Phong Nha Cave
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
Even to the most seasoned adventurers, several of the cave’s underground chambers remain a mystery. The system stretches tens of kilometers with one main ...

Five Wonders of Southern Colorado: Cave of the Winds
KRDO - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
Winding and weaving through two miles of tunnels, you can lose yourself in the underground maze. "I was impressed it says you can spend an hour and a half ...

~»14 mins ago: Colorado Cave Rescue Network holds seminar on cave ...
Examiner.com - USA
About 60 percent of the 80 students who participated in the seminar are "cavers" - simply, people who go underground - in Colorado, Utah and Washington,

Residents Seek Disaster Declaration Over Massive Texas Sinkhole
FOXNews - USA
Daisetta sits on a salt dome, a natural formation created below the ground over millions of years where oil brine and natural gas accumulate. ...

Secret base for Chinese subs
OneNewsNow - Tupelo,MS,USA
Satellite photos obtained by the network reveal a large harbor and massive tunnels that defense experts say could shelter many nuclear subs. ...

China earthquake toll rises to 10000
NEWS.com.au - Australia
All of those provinces and Chongqing, a special municipality of more than 30 million people, border Sichuan. One other person was killed in central Henan ...

Seismologists calculate earthquake epicentre was 6.2 miles below ...
Times Online - UK
The epicentre of the earthquake lies on a fault line between the eastern border of the Tibetan Plateau and an area of sedimentary rocks. ...

SWIFT: Ultra Quiet Rooftop Wind Turbine
Inhabitat - USA
Personal wind turbines are the next big thing in wind power technology, and the Swift Wind Turbine is sure to make a splash with its quiet and unobtrusive

Puerto underground river is bet for world wonder
Inquirer.net - Philippines
We have been asking our visitors to vote for the underground river,” Puerto Princesa City Mayor Edward Hagedorn said. City hall personnel have been actively

Greentec Fuels Energy-Efficient Home Systems Designed With SolidWorks
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Some of the additional energy-saving technologies incorporated into Greentec systems include rainwater recovery systems, heat storage cells

Small earthquake shakes Missouri; no reports of damage
The Associated Press -
... a magnitude 5.2 earthquake shook much of the Midwest, including parts of St. Louis. Its epicenter was in southern Illinois near the Indiana border, ...

Essex planners willing to tweak wind-energy bylaw
Gloucester Daily Times - MA, USA
... the turbines would have to be installed below the top of a house, in its "wind shadow." "The height would have to be lower than the roof and the wind ...

April 2008

WaterFurnace promotes its green technology
fwdailynews.com (subscription) - Kendallville,IN,USA
WaterFurnace International marked Earth Day this year by promoting its geothermal heating and cooling products. It also has a seven-minute video that ...

Fitchburg Project Recycles Materials And Tenants
Worcester Business Journal - Worcester,MA,USA
The use of a geothermal heating and cooling system made similar economic sense. Below six feet underground, water stays around 55 degrees all year. ...

Notes From the Underground: St. Olaf's Tunnels
St. Olaf College Manitou Messenger Online - Northfield,MN,USA
Could these be the secret entrances to the tunnels? I never found out. However, a more likely entrance to the tunnels was soon found

Considering Kilowatt Ours
Birmingham Weekly - USA
Well, the movie shows a farm in Iowa that uses methane from rotting cow manure to power wind turbines and create power. A growing number of farms and coal ...

Quake felt in West Michigan
MLive.com - MI,USA
... Fault in Missouri, near the border with Tennessee, measured 7.8, 8.0 and 8.1, which is 10 times more intense than the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. ...

Earthquake in Illinois basin area shakes Midwest
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
The quake struck in the Illinois basin-Ozark dome region that covers parts of Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas and stretches from ...

Living green
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
Many people assume that geothermal heating, in which pipes are sunk into the ground (or into bodies of water), is an option only for homes outside the city ...

Energy from the earth: Interest in geothermal heating, cooling ...
Journal Times - Racine,WI,USA
“It has very strong advantages to conventional heating and cooling. It offers great energy efficiencies.” A geothermal system operates on the same principle ...

North End's geothermal gem
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
While the province and developers dither over whether its economically feasible to go with geothermal heating in the upscale Waverley West housing ...

Heyworth Elementary's upgrade to geothermal soon to begin
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
By Troy Semple HEYWORTH -- Construction is set to begin on a $1.2 million project to install a geothermal heating and cooling system at Heyworth Elementary ...

Wawarsing Journal Pumping Out Basements, Suspecting an Aqueduct
New York Times - United States
It is the Delaware Aqueduct, a water tunnel that runs deep underground and delivers about half of New York City’s drinking water. The city’s Department of ...

A seven-year long toilet debate may finally end tonight. A city, a ...
Bainbridge Island Review - Bainbridge Island,WA,USA
In late 2006, a new plan for an “earth sheltered bathhouse” was unveiled as part of a new grandiose park vision. It was to incorporate $40000 worth of ...

Underground explosions leave residents without power
WCAX - Burlington,VT,USA
AP - April 13, 2008 6:55 PM ET TROY, NY (AP) - A city engineer says several underground explosions caused by an electrical short forced National Grid to cut ...

Survey of London: Secrets of the streets
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
It is the London village with most surprising medieval survivals - the hidden Charterhouse, like a transplanted Oxbridge college; St John's Gate,

A two-day spree. From the old port to the main, it's a stylista's ...
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
Montreal's famous underground city -- 35 kilometres of stores, restaurants and services taking in the Eaton Centre, Place Ville Marie and other complexes ...

Cape sinkhole total reaches 20 as five more appear
Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
The water travels to the quarry operated by Buzzi Unicem, a cement manufacturer and one of the city's largest employers and taxpayers. Underground water ...

Tucked into the mountains, Guanajuato has flavor of ancient ...
commercialappeal.com (subscription) - Memphis,TN,USA
Most of the traffic flows through a series of underground tunnels. A maze of more than 600 colorful "callejones," or alleys, wind around steep hillsides ...

Officials tour Icelandic geothermal plant
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA
The trip, which included meetings with several engineers and tours of power plants and district heating systems, was taken by a lawmaker from each side of ...

Energy-saving drill
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
Rist said geothermal heating is the unsung hero in the looming energy crisis. He can't keep up with orders; he'd like to train more contractors to meet the ...

Asia's rainforests vanishing as timber, food demand surge: experts
AFP -
HANOI (AFP) — Asia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, ...

Good vibrations could save vanishing bees
Scotsman - United Kingdom
But now experts in Scotland believe they have discovered why bees have been abandoning their hives and vanishing. Scientists at the Roslin-based firm Global ...

Purulia`s storage power project to help tide deficit
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
This project will also harness rainwater for generation of electricity and will help improve the thermal-hydel power ratio in the state which currently

Green buildings sprout up
Chattanooga Times Free Press - Chattanooga,TN,USA
For example, he said it is expensive to dig up rock to put in geothermal heat and air technology. But Jeff Cannon, director of the local greenspaces ...

'SMART BUILDING'
Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek,MI,USA
Open-loop geothermal heat pumps, which will replace BCPS's aged boiler system, use the earth's natural temperature stability to heat and cool space.

Ropak's geothermal energy strategy featured on CBC TV
Canadian Plastics - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Over a decade ago, Ropak – a manufacturer of plastic tubs, pails and buckets – switched from traditional oil heating to a geothermal energy system for ...

Building a company from the ground down
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Darren Winczura and Brian Vitek are partners in Alf's Geo and Drilling, a company that installs geothermal heating and cooling systems, drills water wells ...

One dead and two buried as cave home collapses in Murcia
Typically Spanish - Malaga,Spain
By hb - Apr 7, 2008 - 12:29 PM A worker has died and two more are buried as a cave house has collapsed in Águilas, Murcia. It happened at 11am this morning ...

Sneak preview of $5-million facelift
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Grubbiness aside, there are many who find the slightly retro aesthetic of the underground pleasing. Clean it up, by all means, but don't tamper with the ...

MSVU researcher takes his work underground
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
A researcher at Mount Saint Vincent University plans to go underground to determine exactly what is going on beneath the surface of one of the planet’s most ...

Austin company creates windpower for high-rise buildings
KVUE - Austin,TX,USA
"We can do small ones, we can do large ones, we can cover this whole roof with turbines," said Cala. Each turbine is expected to cost about 7 to 8 thousand ...

’Force of nature behind Tunnels punishing cycle of maintenance
ic Wales - United Kingdom
Rhodri Clark descended 200ft underground to view the tunnel and ask engineers why it must close again THERE are plenty of world firsts on Wales’ CV, ...

Magnitude 4.0 earthquake hits Barmer
Hindustan Times - India
The epicenter of the earthquake was located on the India-Pakistan border region at latitudes 25.3 north and 70.5 east, an official of Delhi Seismology ...

5.3-degree Richter quake shakes Colombian-Venezuelan border
Xinhua - China
Colombian earthquake expert Fernando Aguirre said the quake, occurred at 11:36 local time (1636 GMT), was felt by inhabitants in Cucuta, capital of Norte de

March 2008

Chile-Argentine Border Hit by 5.5-Magnitude Quake, USGS Says
Bloomberg - USA
By Thomas Penny March 10 (Bloomberg) -- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit the border region of Argentina and Chile at 6:43 am local time today, ...

Plan for underground cables gets buried again
The Courier News - Elgin,IL,USA
By Denise Moran For The Courier News HUNTLEY -- Cost versus aesthetics has once again become an issue as the village board has voted against the proposed

Rescuers: Miners have little chance of survival in NE China fire
Xinhua - China
After measuring airflow back, experts believed the underground carbon monoxide density would be fatal, said a member of the rescue team

Underground, overground
Guardian - UK
... Koltsevaya Line on the city's ornate metro system. Legend has it Stalin inadvertently designed the line by leaving a cup on an existing underground map. ...

Earthquake shakes up German coal mining
Guardian - UK
If the closure is permanent, as local politicians are demanding, it could spark a whole new lot of problems for the hilly region on the French border. ...

Utility lines may go underground in Vanderbilt Beach
Marconews (subscription) - Marco Island,FL,USA
... Beautification MSTU Board will host a public information meeting for Vanderbilt Beach MSTU members to talk about putting utility lines underground. ...

Port unearths mystery in railcar
Daily News - Galveston County - TX,USA
Port officials, however, don’t know whether the car contained water when it was buried or if rainwater leaked into car, which is only about one foot below ...

£Elta secures 150000 tunnel ventilation deal
H&V News - London,UK
Elta Fans has won a £150000 contract to supply ventilation for three underground tunnels housing high voltage electric cables in the City of London.

Mike Terrell: Mammoth Cave lives up to name
Traverse City Record Eagle - Traverse City,MI,USA
It's one of our smallest national parks with only 50000-some acres above ground, but the jewel of the park -- the extensive cave system -- lies underground, ...

In photos: 'Switzerland - CERN ATLAS Experiment'
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
By M&C News Feb 29, 2008, 19:15 GMT The last element, weighing 100 tonnes, of the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment is lowered into the cave at ...

Secret Cold War bunker opened in Germany
United Press International - USA
Almost 220 yards of the 12-mile underground bunker has been furnished to replicate its original appearance for the museum, the report said. ...

Drilling's Hidden Costs
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
Fracking involves injecting pressurized fluids into underground rock formations to create fractures that allow the mineral resources to flow out more easily ...

February 2008

Quakes shake border region
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
SAN DIEGO – Two more small earthquakes rattled the US-Mexico border region late Friday morning. A 4.7 magnitude quake shook an area 16 miles south-southeast ...

Magnitude 6.0 quake hits Nevada near Utah border
ABC 4 - Salt Lake City,USA
(AP) - A strong earthquake shook rural northeastern Nevada and southern Idaho early Thursday, causing at least one building to collapse and forcing the ...

Quake hits Bolivia-Chile border, no damage
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Bolivia in the region of Potosi near the border with Chile on Saturday, but there were no immediate ...

Another Quake Hits US-Mexico Border
CBS 42 - Austin,TX,USA
A 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook 19 miles south of the US border town of Calexico, California Tuesday at 2:41 pm according to the Southern California ...

Major quakes could destroy historic sites
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
After the Hanaore fault, the Ikoma fault belt near the border of Nara and Osaka prefectures poses the biggest threat to the area. A strong Ikoma earthquake ...

Minor quake shakes US-Mexico border
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
A 3.7-magnitude earthquake has shaken an area near the California-Mexico border but there are no reports of damage or injuries. The US Geological Survey ...

Amsterdam looks underground to ease congestion
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
AMSTERDAM: Officials in Amsterdam are considering plans to build a vast underground city beneath the city’s canals to house car parks, cinemas and sports

Colorado residents brace for disaster
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
An underground tunnel bulging with water threatens to rupture near the old mining town of Leadville. A plan to drain it is months away.

éFixing famed Panthon clock turns into a restoration comedy
Globe and Mail - Canada
The core group began slipping into grottos, subway tunnels and even the Panthéon itself in the early 1980s. Scrabbling about underground was then all the ...

Geothermal systems that reduce energy use grow faster than those ...
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
Installers drill what are called "bore holes" down to where the soil temperature is the desirable temperature. In summer, instead of shedding heat into ...

As the worm turns ... green
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA
Cuba's school is heated and cooled by a geothermal system, which draws water up from the ground into 200 wells 120 feet underground.

Comment - A pioneer of geothermal
Mining Journal Online - London,UK
JUST a little over a century has passed since the 1904 experiment in which Prince Ginori Conti proved that geothermal fluids can be used to generate ...

YOUR OWN FISPOND
Mother Earth News - Topeka,KS,USA
If your property is composed of predominantly clay soil, the ground will probably seal well without any trouble. (You can test your earth's water holding ...

A threat builds deep beneath us
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Working in the tunnels also carries risk. Two laborers filling cracks in the St. Paul tunnel drowned in July after being stranded underground during a ...

Aging Mpls. Storm Tunnels Splitting Apart
WCCO - Minneapolis,MN,USA
But tunnel repairs also carry risk. Two workers filling cracks in a St. Paul tunnel drowned in July after they were stranded underground during a deluge. ...

Electrical fires avoidable, more common in hot dry climates: call ...
Al-Bawaba - Amman,Jordan
“The most common earthing used in the UAE is a mixture of coke with bentonite soil and because of the hot dry climate earthing commonly used here needs ...

Underground coal fire burning along interstate
Jamestown Sun - Jamestown,ND,USA
BISMARCK — An underground coal fire, probably a remnant of a prairie fire during dry conditions last fall, has been growing along Interstate 94, ...

Hearing Held to Discuss Long Island Sound Tunnel Proposal
Manhasset Press - Manhasset,NY,USA
The Sound Link is a proposed 16-mile triple bore tunnel going underground at the existing northern terminus of the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway in Syosset

Sisters say there were three tunnels under Cutts Mansion
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA
The possibility of an underground tunnel was raised earlier this week in news articles regarding the mansion, a property owned by former congressional ...

Movie delves under the city
Times Colonist - Victoria,British Columbia,Canada
It shows a number of adventures below city streets, including a rare look at a tunnel carved out of bedrock in Esquimalt that McFetrick said is large enough ...

In no rush to go anywhere
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
Their latest warped idea is to build a substantial section of Route 531 underground. They claim that the tunnel alternative is cheaper - the essence of ...

Mexico fines trapped French cave explorer, 5 companions for ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
In 2004, Mexican officials detained 13 British citizens, some of whom were trapped for more than a week in an underground cavern in Puebla state, ...

Mine Safety Agency OKs Wireless Tracker
The Associated Press -
In May of that year, five men died in an underground explosion at the Kentucky Darby mine. In August 2007, nine people died in two cave-ins at the Crandall ...

Bat deaths defy diagnosis
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
Meanwhile, Youngbaer said, the club provides skilled volunteers for underground expeditions. Members are also plowing through cave-visitation databases, ...

Views of the City, His and Hers, With Lens and Brush
New York Times - United States
In a series from 1947, Burckhardt took his Leica camera underground. These photographs are often compared to Evans’s covert subway photographs of a decade ...

Amsterdam to develop underground city
TREND Information - Baku,Azerbaijan
Building company Strukton presented its ambitious plans aimed to to solve the city's space problems at a congress on Tuesday. The multi-floor underground ...

Mumbai could get tunnels for motorists in the future
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
3 Feb, 2008, 1126 hrs IST, PTI MUMBAI: Underground roads can be constructed in the future at locations in the city where an elevated road is difficult to ...

January 2008

Renewable energy: Where there's a wind . . .
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
By Steve Raabe Electrician Mark Lane installs one of two wind turbines on the roof of the Mercury Cafe near downtown Denver in 2006. ...

Quarry found below ground
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
Niemiller used an aquarium net to capture another Berry cave salamander. Altogether, they captured and released six specimens while underground for almost

Steam tunnels exist, but not for students
Bowdoin Orient - Brunswick,ME,USA
By Angela Fabunan As temperatures drop to frighteningly low degrees, Bowdoin's rumored underground tunnels would certainly be a comfort to use.

Developer proposes world's longest highway tunnel in NY
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
The key, he said to his alternate strategy, was to avoid a towering span and take the plan underground: "I thought, make it stealth."

Journey to the centre of the earth
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... and enter a second tunnel. This one appears curved, and is in fact circular, and about the size of the Circle Line on the London Underground. ...

Last day at Tower, the coalmine that became a goldmine
Independent - London,England,UK
Men who daily went underground to work the anthracite seams maintained that there was at least five years' life in the pit. And so, 239 determined men ...

Winter Park starts burying its power lines
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
Taking the electric grid underground was a promise made almost three years ago when the city bought control of its grid from Progress Energy for about $48.9 ...

Sewer and wastewater project begins
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Kansas City’s sewer and stormwater system has 7200 miles of underground piping. That’s about the distance from Kansas City to Honolulu and back,

Tomato Power, Waitrose supermarket gets all its electricity from ...
FemaleFirst.co.uk - Ashton-in-Makerfield,England,UK
Tomato plants kept in greenhouses at farms in Chichester and Stanstead are fed carbon dioxide, which, combined with photosynthesis, produces better tasting ...

Con Ed Blames Faulty Work In Electrocution
New York Times Blogs - New York,NY,USA
Soon after the accident, Con Ed said the city's use of rock salt to melt snow and ice regularly contributed to the corrosion of underground electrical wires ...

Underground electric supply lines focus of Town Hall meeting
Gulf Coast Newspapers - Daphne,AL,USA
EMC’s Steve Irwin, District Engineering and Operations Manager, South Baldwin District, pointed out the extensive existence of underground circuitry now,

Burying power lines an expensive idea
Hutchinson News - Hutchinson,KS,USA
Several recent studies indicate that the cost of installing underground systems has become more economical during the past two decades and is beneficial

Your stories of Southport's subterranean street
icSeftonandWestLancs - Southport,England,UK
A specialist exploration group’s appeal for help in charting the remains of the hidden subway beneath Nevill Street, reported in last week’s Visiter, ...

Underground project key to making coal, oil more Earth-friendly
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign,IL,USA
... Daniels Midland Co., which is helping fund the project, will be pumped nearly 6500 feet underground into the so-called Mount Simon Sandstone Formation. ...

Solar plan tops SL County to-do list at the Legislature
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
By Jeremiah Stettler If a sprinkling of solar panels could spill "sun" light into the Salt Palace's underground parking garage, then imagine what a rooftop ...

Process would make coal burn cleaner
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Geological sequestration would be done by capturing carbon greenhouse gases and pumping them into geological structures deep underground.

Salt museum is getting new visitor centre
Bromsgrove Advertiser - Bromsgrove,UK
NEWS that work has begun on the above ground visitors centre for the Kansas Underground Salt Museum could spark some interest among salt historians in ...

Salt Museum Gets Help From Hutch
WIBW - Topeka,KS,USA
Hutchinson city leaders boosted the budget of the Kansas Underground Salt Museum on Wednesday. The city council approved $35000 to help the financially ...

L-3 Develops Wireless System for Mines
Houston Chronicle - United States
The system could be available for use in underground coal mines within 16 months, L-3 Communications program manager Dan Erndle told the Deseret Morning ...

Tunnel boring off to slow start
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
By Jeff Switzer King County's expensive tunneling project continues to grind its way underground from Bothell to the future Brightwater treatment plant in ...

Underground transformer fire knocks out power, strands state workers
NJ Blog - New Jersey,USA
... garage stranded in the city after their workday ended. Michael Ratcliffe/The TimesFlames and smoke from an underground electrical transformer fire spew

Geology and the Tunnels of Gibraltar
Vox Online News - Gibraltar,UK
In 1898 Admiralty contractors (Cochranes Ltd) cut a tunnel - named at completion Dockyard Tunnel - west to east of the Rock to quarry Upper Sandy Bay. ...