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, [...]
There is a 1in 4 chance that any piece of fish you buy in a restaurant or market isn’t what you think it is. Odds are you are paying good money for cheap fish.
Surveys have discovered people buying fresh tuna that was actually tilapia or eating red snapper that turned out to be perch or cod. [...]
Science is an art of exploration. The dedication of the explorers is sometimes directed by other discoveries, a chance encounter or simply just the pure serendipity of a crazy idea.
The effects of global warming started to be a concern for scientists during the early 1960s. Acid rain was the environmental issue of the day and [...]
They are called “dead zones”, increasingly large areas of coastal ocean that can no longer support life.
Fishermen off the shores of Oregon report that more amounts of dead rockfish, crabs and other bottom fish have been appearing in their nets and along the coast line.
There is a huge plastic waste dump site in the Pacific Ocean that is twice the size of the continental United States.
It is estimated that 10 percent of the world’s plastic waste finds its way into the sea and slowly but surely most of it ends up in the Pacific Ocean.
Scientists have taken the childhood pastime of flying kites to new heights in search of renewable power.
Wind farm turbine windmills stand 80 meters high and deal with winds that average 5 kilometers a minute. Winds 800 meters above the earth average 7 Km a minute, a substantial increase, but it would be impractical to build [...]
Tourists had to be evacuated by helicopter from one of Canada’s major Arctic parks as abnormal temperatures caused severe flooding, washing away hiking trails and a bridge.
“We lost huge proportions of what was formerly the trail in the park. It’s disappeared - gone,” said Pauline Scott, speaking for Parks Canada.
