Sea storm wallpaper
World’s largest solar power plant opens
The world’s largest solar power plant was inaugurated this week in Portugal.
The 11-megawatt C$91-million plant spreads across a 60-hectare (approx. 148 acres) hillside in Serpa, 200 kms southeast of Lisbon.
Southern Portugal is one of the sunniest places in Europe. The new plant will produce enough power to [...]
Archive for March, 2007
World’s largest solar plant opens in Portugal, Solar wind may propel space travel
Posted in Environment-Energy, Science on March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Temperate rain forest, If you watch your energy use will you use less
Posted in Environment-Energy, Environment-General, Tech on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Temperate rain forest wallpaper
*hopefully link to full size wallpaper fixed
When we hear the term rain forest most of us immediately create a mental picture the hot tropical or sub-tropical forests of Central or South America, or maybe even parts of south Asia, but North America can take pride in having its own particular biome [...]
Coastal wetlands wallpaper, Industry still threatens Gulf Coast, Restoring our fisheries
Posted in Environment-General, Environment-wildlife, News, Society & Culture, economics on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Coastal wetlands wallpaper.
Industry keeps marching through Louisiana’s wetlands
As the person in charge of permitting oil and gas exploration along Louisiana’s coastline, Jim Rives has seen his job get “a little easier” in recent years. Increasingly, projects that once would have raised troublesome wetland issues sail through with few questions.
But that’s only because much of the [...]
Orangutans might become extinct in the wild in five years, Web based environmental assessment by address
Posted in Environment-General, Environment-wildlife, News, Science on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Orangutan – larger
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Ponginae
Genus: Pongo
Native species to Indonesia and Malaysia.
Orangutans extinct by 2012
The Orang Utan, one of [...]
Mysterious bee deaths also hits Europe,Mosquitoes zero in on exhaled breath
Posted in Environment-General, Environment-wildlife, Science on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In this story from the English edition of a German newspaper GM stands for genetically modified, Are GM Crops Killing Bees?
Is the mysterous decimation of bee populations in the US and Germany a result of GM crops?
Walter Haefeker is a man who is used to painting grim scenarios. He sits on the board of directors [...]
