The International Energy Agency reports that the Global oil producers are creating a new energy crisis which will spark a return to even higher gasoline pump prices than those experienced this year.
The Oil industry realizes that the world can only deal with one crisis at time. So for the moment they are sitting back while [...]
Today the Bush and Obama families will meet at the White House for a polite visit to discuss the workings of the institution and perhaps even talk a little politics.
Essentially this is just a social visit but underscoring the polite niceties there is an active Bush political agenda at work in the background.
The President may [...]
Canada doesn’t allow Asbestos to be used in Canada but is more than willing to export it to third world countries.
Asbestos is a cheap insulating agent that is banned in most of the developed world because it is highly toxic and exposure to it greatly increases the odds of developing lung cancer.
Lax regulation in the [...]
It was as if America released a collective sigh of relief.
After weeks of Senator Barack Obama leading in most political polls the pundits suddenly became cautious and began telling us that the race was close.
The American voter was unwilling to accept another election that was close. They wanted a clear decision made about the next [...]
The two U.S. Presidential candidates are coming to that great moment of truth, that singular moment in a democracy when all the campaigning, stump speeches, advertising, the stumbles and the successes will rest with a simple act of one citizen casting their one ballot.
It has been a difficult campaign for both Sen. Obama and Sen. [...]
China is becoming more active in the battle to combat global warming by pressing for developed nations to share more “green†technology to the world’s poorest nations, and they want the world’s richest nations to pay for it.
A senior Chinese official for climate change policy, Gao Guangsheng, said that the current global economic crisis should [...]
“Out of the mouths of babes†is an endearing adage about innocence that has taken on a whole new meaning in a New York City art event hosted by the United Nations.
The UN challenged young artists from around the world to express their environmental aspirations, or concerns, about the future of the planet.
The illegal traffic in the skins of endangered animals, ivory and rain forest timber is growing and profitable in the booming environmental crime business.
Every year criminal syndicates are profiting by more than 10 billion dollars as they poach and smuggle illegal natural products into markets willing to pay for them.
A British based charity, the Environmental Investigation [...]
There are less fish in the sea than ever before but also more fishermen trying to net them than ever before.
That equation amounts to huge financial losses for the fishing industry, over 50 billion dollars a year and a serious global depletion of centuries old food supply.
Over the last three decades more than 2 trillion [...]
The world’s smallest park, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is in Portland, Oregon.
It’s called Mill Ends Park and it is a lonely patch of earth that barely measures 2 feet across, sitting in a sea of asphalt and traffic in downtown Portland.
In 1946 City of Portland municipal workers forgot to install a street lamp [...]
It has been snowing on Mars and it took a Canadian scientist using Canadian technology to recognize it. Seems that Canadians know snow when they see it.
“Nothing like this view has ever been seen on Mars,†said Jim Whiteway of Toronto’s York University and the lead weather scientist for NASA’s Mars Lander project.Â
“It’s a major breakthrough,†said [...]
The Japanese government will introduce a new subsidy for home owners who want to convert to solar power. The program is designed to reduce solar power conversion costs by almost 10 percent.
Japan is a nation that has virtually no natural resources. Oil is used to meet nearly 60% of Japan’s total energy needs and almost [...]
