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.
“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 [...]
Many financial experts are concerned that the current US financial market meltdown and the staggering infusion of 700 billion dollars to save it will only result in restoring the status quo.
Some are also concerned that the normal use of fossil fuel consumption will continue at the expense of plans to convert power production towards techniques that could [...]
Samso is a Danish island that is perhaps the world’s first modern, completely self sustaining, energy producing community.
Samso has a population of 41 hundred people spread over 22 villages and numerous farms. Each year its population swells by 50 thousand as summer residents and tourists come to enjoy the quiet, quaint island way of life.
Guillemots are a bird that can be found around the world. They are fishers and breed in colonies nestled among sea rocks and cliffs.
Some of those colonies have turned into killing grounds as the birds attempt to find a way to deal with their collapsing food supply.
Just as Hurricane Ike was about to lash against the southern Bahamian island of Great Inagua its population of flamingos began to disappear.
The Island is popular with tourists and bird watchers who come to marvel at the 60 thousand strong flamingo population.
Before Hurricane Ike hit the Island most of the flock began to evacuate to parts [...]
After a frustrating year and half of delay the US Environmental Protection Agency has finally been able to introduce new regulations that target summer pollution levels.
The new regulations could result in a 25 percent reduction of smog-forming emissions and carbon monoxide from the nation’s motor vehicle sector.
Small gasoline engines that power pleasure craft boats and [...]
There is a large amount of forest acreage buried underwater as a result of the rapid construction of hydro and irrigation dam projects built from the 1960’s until the end of the last century.
Harvesting the underwater trees could be worth billions of dollars for tropical countries.
Ghana alone has submerged over 14 million cubic meters of [...]
The image of Canada’s great Arctic expanses covered with snow and ice and stretching for thousands of kilometers into the distance is changing, or rather melting.
Canadian scientists are reporting with some alarm the break up of some Canada’s largest ice shelves.
In August the Markham Ice Shelf, a 50 kilometer square area of fresh water ice, [...]
