The very concept of keeping an iPhone fully charged? Laughable. But using the sun as a power source? That’s positively preposterous. Apparently crazy is on the menu over at Dexim HQ. Their new solar- powered P-Flip, promises to juice an iPhone’s talk time up to eight hours. The rigging basically looks like a bulky black...
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Advances in conventional agriculture have dramatically slowed the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, in part by allowing farmers to grow more food to meet world demand without ploughing up vast tracts of land, a study by three Stanford University researches has found. The study which has been embraced by many...
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Six month long tiger census made public reveals that the tiger population in Nepal has gone up to 155 from 121 last year. In 2009, the counting was done in Chitwan, Parsa, Bardia and Suklaphata which revealed 121 tigers. But this year, tigers were counted only in Chitwan (famous for Nepal’s first national park with endangered...
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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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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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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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Use of plastic bags in Hong Kong has come down drastically by nearly 90 percent in the past 12 months thanks to a “plastic bag fine” scheme launched by the government. Registered retailers in Hong Kong distributed 90 percent fewer plastic bags in the past 12 months in comparison to the situation before the scheme, a...
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