Large blue butterflies were driven to extinction in Britain 30 years ago, but now they’re making a comeback, thanks to some loving care from conservationists. Down a track, through beech woods so thick you must turn on your car headlights, lies a secret meadow, full of flowers. Mauve scabious and darker purple knapweed wave their...
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People may have the habit of throwing away ice cube trays after a few uses. However, there are many uses for ice cube trays besides freezing water. Below are some of the uses of them. • Ice cube trays are great for organizing office or sewing supplies. All of those little compartments are wonderful for buttons, stamps, paper...
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Students have over come scant resources to put green prototype on Hebron’s diesel and donkey-polluted roads. Visitors to the West Bank town of Hebron this summer might find a strange looking white vehicle motoring through its streets — the first Palestinian solar-powered car. The product of an environmentally friendly project...
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Google Inc’s energy unit has entered into a deal to buy wind power from NextEra Energy Inc for the next 20 years to power data centres. The deal comes less than three months after the giant Silicon Valley Internet search company invested $38.8 million in two wind farms in North Dakota, developed by NextEra Energy Resources, that...
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A modern take on straw-bale construction may well be the grand design of the future if results coming out of the University of Bath are accepted by the construction industry. Think of a straw-bale house and you might imagine a tumbledown shack that leaks, creaks, slumps and smells somewhat of the farmyard. But step into Bale-Haus, a...
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At least 15 percent of the sunderbeans – the world’s largest mangrove forests will be submerged by 2020 and neglecting the area further can have global implications as it is highly venerable to climate change, says a UNDP report. The District Human Development Report (DHDR) of North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and Utter...
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Bio – fuel pellets made form horse manure will help power the new barracks of the Royal Horse Artillery, the Ministry of Defence of UK announced on July 12. Recycled waste and bedding from the regiment’s 111 horses will provide enough low carbon energy to cover the heating and lighting requirements of the ceremonial...
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Spain has opened the world’s largest solar power station, meaning that it overtakes the US as the biggest solar generator in the world. The nation’s total solar power production, which benefits from the peninsula’s 340 days of sunshine a year is now equivalent to the output of a nuclear power station. Spain is no stranger to...
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The world is heading for an average temperature rise of nearly 4 degree Celsius, according to analysis of national pledges from around the globe. Such a rise would bring a high risk of major extinctions, threats to food supplies and the near total collapse of the huge Greenland ice sheet. More than 100 heads of state agreed in...
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With carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air approaching alarming levels, even halting emissions altogether may not be enough to avert catastrophic climate change. A new study by Carnegie institution scientists suggests that while removing excess CO2 would cool the planet, carbon cycle complexities would limit the effectiveness of a one...
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