Coast of Thailand wallpaper, Downstream nuclear waste, Energy beamed from space

Coast of Thailand wallpaper
Didn’t everyone’s mom warn them not to throw sticks you’ll put someone’s eye out and never store your radio active waste in a quake zone, China rushes to clear radioactive materials below quake lake
China rushed Friday to remove radioactive and chemical materials sitting downstream from a “quake lake” that threatens to burst [...]

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Stone Bridge wallpaper, Biking and changes

Stone Bridge wallpaper
Gas prices are changing our driving/transportation habits. Many people think that biking to work is the answer at least short term. Not everyone is crazy about what they see as the overzealousness of some bikers, Isn’t bike riding an economic issue?
In the not too many years past, riding a motorcycle or [...]

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Colorful Nudibranch wallpaper, Australian Institute makes incredible solar tech breakthrough

Colorful Nudibranch wallpaper
I could have called it a sea slug, but Nudibranch sounds nicer.
From the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, UQ researchers make breakthrough in renewable energy materials
University of Queensland researchers have made a ground-breaking discovery that produces highly efficient miniature crystals which could revolutionise the way we harvest and use solar energy.
Professor Max [...]

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Blue Crater Lake wallpaper and other news

Blue Crater Lake wallpaper. This isn’t the famous Crater Lake in Oregon with the island in the middle, but a volcanic mountain lake in China. As we’ve all been recently reminded China has some disturbingly active geologic activity on occasion.
let’s be careful out there, Florida county watching for deadly amoeba
Local health officials in Florida are [...]

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Illustrated Dandelions wallpaper, Shark and Ray populations dwindling, Young Owls

Illustrated Dandelions wallpaper
Sharks, Rays Face Extinction Due to Over-Fishing, Red List Says
The world’s ocean-dwelling sharks and rays face extinction because of “serious over-fishing,” the International Union for Conservation of Nature said, after adding seven species to its Red List.
Three varieties of thresher shark and the shortfin mako are all “vulnerable,” the third-highest degree of threat, [...]

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