Making history: first all-electric car hits market in Canada
Today Nissan Canada made history when it delivered the first all-electric Nissan LEAF in Canada, signaling the arrival of sustainable mobility to the Canadian mass market. PowerStream, the second largest municipally-owned electricity distribution company in Ontario, received keys to its two white Nissan LEAFs MY11, at an event at its head office in Vaughan, Ontario. […]
Six dead in shooting at Texas roller skating rink
Six people have died after a shooting at a roller skating rink in Grand Prairie, Texas. The shooting happened at a children’s birthday party on Saturday at around 7:10pm after a domestic dispute. The gunman is among the dead after a self inflicted gunshot. Four other people were injured in the shooting. John Brimmer, a […]
Six dead in shooting at Texas roller skating rink
Six people have died after a shooting at a roller skating rink in Grand Prairie, Texas. The shooting happened at a children’s birthday party on Saturday at around 7:10pm after a domestic dispute. The gunman is among the dead after a self inflicted gunshot. Four other people were injured in the shooting. John Brimmer, a […]
The world at seven billion: Can we stop growing now?
By Robert Engelman, Worldwatch Institute Demographers aren’t known for their sense of humor, but the ones who work for the United Nations recently announced that the world’s human population will hit seven billion on Halloween this year. Since censuses and other surveys can scarcely justify such a precise calculation, it’s tempting to imagine that the […]
Behold, the floating ice island
By Kieran Mulvaney, Discovery News The trawler’s crew could scarcely believe their eyes. They had seen icebergs before as they fished off the coast of Labrador, but never anything quite like this, what was described as “a dazzling white ice island five kilometres long and alive with mountains, valleys, brooks, waterfalls, ponds and seals.” A […]
University offers post-grad degree in comic studies
In the Central Lowlands of Scotland, the University of Dundee is to become the first university in the United Kingdom to provide degrees in comic studies. The university has said that courses for its comic studies subject within the English section will commence in September 2011. The city of Dundee is known to be the...
The most efficient energy star
By Andy Soos, ENN Energy Star is an international standard for energy efficient consumer products originated in the United States of America. It was first created as a United States government program during the early 1990s, but Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and the European Union have also adopted the program. Devices carrying the […]
The significant role of forests in regulating global climate
By David A Gabel, ENN A new study published in the journal, Science, has quantified the forests’ role in regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere. Because plants absorb CO2 as part of their metabolism, the greater the forest, the more CO2 is removed, and the impact of global climate change is decreased. The […]
New study rings louder death knell for tuna
Three Simon Fraser University biologists, including two co-authors of a new study, say that the study’s findings on the fate of tuna globally intensify a conundrum in managing this dwindling species. Do regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) risk making multi-million dollar fisheries go bankrupt by putting a moratorium on them? Or do they continue to […]
How hot was it long ago?
By Andy Soos, ENN The question seems simple enough: What happens to the Earth’s temperature when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase? It has happened in the past. The answer is elusive. However, clues are hidden in the fossil record. A new study by researchers from Syracuse and Yale universities provides a much clearer picture of […]
