Creating a Landfill to Have Cleaner Air The New York Times | KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) - Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also produce a new waste stream for a site still engaged in a $1 billion cleanup from a huge ash spill. | "It is a tradeoff," Ron Nash of the Tennessee V...
West Africa's last giraffes make surprise comeback The Press Democrat | The tallest animals on earth are here, the guide says, somewhere amid the scant green bush on one side, and the thatched dome villages on the other. | They're here, but by all accounts, they shouldn't be. | A hundred years ago, West Africa's last giraffes numbered in the thousands and their habita...
It's a wide Earth Arab News | Commentary by Sayyid Qutb | In the Name of God, the Lord of Grace, the Ever Merciful | Say: "Can those who know and those who do not know be deemed equal?" Only those who are endowed with insight will take heed. "Say: (Thus speaks God:) You servant...
Seafloor fossils to reconstruct Earth's climates up to 250 million years ago Newstrack India | Washington, November 8 (ANI): In a research lasting two decades, a scientist has studied ancient, deep-sea fossils to reconstruct the climates of Earth up to 250 million years ago. | The scientist in question is Miriam Katz, assistant Profess...
Destroying the Earth, Over and Over Again The New York Times | ON Nov. 13, when his latest tale of the apocalypse, "2012," arrives in theaters, the filmmaker Roland Emmerich will have waged more assaults on this planet than he can remember. He's frozen it, drowned it and sicced aliens and Godzilla on it. The e...
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Rare whale gathering sighted BBC News | A large group of a rarely sighted, mysterious species of whale has been seen off the coast of Antarctica. | Approximately 60 Arnoux's beaked whales were seen and photographed fro...
A marvellous hummingbird display BBC News | "It was thought he actually snapped those spatule discs together to generate the noise." | However, the high speed film of the mating sequence, captured at hundreds of ...
WWF says reckless consumption threatens the planet Malaya | GENEVA — The Earth's natural resources are being depleted so quickly that "two planets" would be required to sustain current lifestyles within a generation, the conservation grou...
Earth-friendly entertaining The News Tribune | Lifestyle guru Susie Coelho believes that in this depressed economy, now is the time to expand rather than contract your lives. Just do it with an eye toward the green of nature rather than of money. | "It's natural that during these tough times," ...
Comet chaser Rosetta's Earth swingby right on schedule Newstrack India | Paris, November 7 (ANI): Estimates have shown that European Space Agency's (ESA) comet chaser Rosetta's Earth swingby is right on schedule, and it would pass within a few kilometers of the planned point of closest approach during the swingby. ...
The G20 wants to stop climate change - but who on earth will pay for it? The Independent | As if they hadn't got quite enough on their plates already, the finance ministers of the G20, meeting in St Andrews, have also set themselves the task of saving the planet. Strange, but true. Even the clever people at HM Treasury may be feeling the...
Global warming: The nine most affected areas NZ Herald | Bangladesh | People living in the flood-prone delta nation are feeling the full force of climate change. Frequent flooding wipes out crops, spreads disease and destroys homes. | Sudan | Rising temperatures are causing the Sahara Desert to expand, eating into the farmland on the edge of the wastelands and causing immense pressure for food. | Carib...
Get Into Nature: Battle between flora and fauna Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Plants seem to be at the mercy of the animals that eat them. But roses and blackberries protect themselves with thorns. Milkweeds produce toxins that poison all but monarch butterfly caterpillars. And in the tropics, some acacias "permit" ants to live inside their thorns and drink their nectar. In return, the ants attack anything that so much as ...
