Vista Fall Leaf wallpaper
10-10-09 – Updated picture. This one has corrected the color blotch that was at the top of the original
Phoenicians Left Deep Genetic Mark, Study Shows
The Phoenicians, enigmatic people from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, stamped their mark on maritime history, and now research has revealed that they also left a lasting [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Vista Fall Leaf wallpaper, Ancient Phoenicians left genetic mark, Rare tuatara reptile eggs found
Posted in Environment-wildlife, Health, History, wallpaper on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rocky Shores wallpaper, Ultracapacitor or new gen battery, Flexiable displays on the way
Posted in Environment-wildlife, News, Tech, wallpaper on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rocky Shores wallpaper
What Comes After Batteries? – A story that has been unfolding. What EEStor makes is a ultracapacitor that can store electricity between two fields. Popular Science seems to think that this ultracpacitor is probably better as a kind of battery booster then a solitary source of power in something like an electric car. [...]
Canoe and Lake wallpaper, Vaquita porpoise gets special study
Posted in Environment-wildlife, Society & Culture, wallpaper on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Canoe and Lake wallpaper
Mexico, US, Canada to protect endangered porpoise
Officials from Mexico, the United States and Canada are teaming up in a plan presented Tuesday to protect the vaquita marina, a highly endangered species of porpoise in the upper Gulf of California.
According to the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation there are an estimated 150 [...]
Mount Baker Wilderness wallpaper, Climate affecting Yellowstone amphibians, Legal ivory sales start
Posted in Environment-General, Environment-wildlife, Society & Culture, wallpaper on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mount Baker Wilderness wallpaper
Mount Baker Wilderness, all 117,000 acres is in northern Washington.
Climate link to amphibian decline
Amphibian populations at Yellowstone – the world’s oldest national park – are in steep decline, a major study shows.
The authors link this to the drying out of wetlands where the animals live and breed, which is in turn being [...]
Snowboarding wallpaper, Rare White rhino born from artificial insemination, Orca pod likely dead
Posted in Environment-wildlife, Science, wallpaper on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Snowboarding wallpaper
A world-first: birth of a white rhino after artificial insemination with frozen sperm
The rhino baby, a male, was born at 4:57am in the Budapest Zoo on the 22nd of October 2008. In June 2007, scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin artificially inseminated his mother, the rhino cow Lulu, [...]
