MADRID ¦ 3 MARCH 2010 -- The World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the Spanish Government, which currently holds the rotating European Union presidency, are opening a Global Consultation on Migrant Health in Madrid today. Millions of migrants face multiple…
A new long-term exhibition at the Walt Disney World Resort® in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., will bring visitors face to face with the nanoworld.Housed at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot®, the exhibition Take a Nanooze Break features a series of interactive, continually updated displays that allow visitors to…
This NASA images shows the haze lingering over the metropolitan area of Santiago, Chile, following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake on February 27, 2010. In an image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite at 14:25 UTC, black smoke hung over the northern…
Seed Population on Seafloor Points to a large ‘Red Tide’; Impacts will Depend on Ocean Conditions and WeatherScientists from the NOAA-funded Gulf of Maine Toxicity project issued an outlook for a significant regional bloom of a toxic alga that causes ‘red tides’ in the spring and summer of…
The following email was sent to me by United for Peace and Justice. Can anyone substantiate their claims?The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan passed a sobering milestone last week. The 1,000th U.S. soldier to die in Operation Enduring Freedom lost his life in the Marja offensive, even as 27 Afghan…
The Department of Environmental Protection has fined Raymond Shimmel $6,792 for the illegal application of residential septage on his property in Boggs Township, Clearfield County. Septage is partially ...
Magnitude 8.8 – OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILEMagnitude 8.8Date-Time Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 06:34:14 UTCSaturday, February 27, 2010 at 03:34:14 AM at epicenterTime of Earthquake in other Time ZonesLocation 35.846°S, 72.719°WDepth 35 km (21.7 miles) set by location programRegion OFFSHORE MAULE,…
Torrential rains caused it to rain fish from the sky in Australia. The bizarre phenomena happened twice in the same day.When Christine Balmer saw “hundreds and hundreds” of fish falling from the sky, she could not believe it.“It rained fish in Lajamanu on Thursday and Friday night,” she…
Pledges by 60 countries to cut their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the next 10 years will not be sufficient to hold global temperature rises to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The report notes that an emissions…
DOE announced on February 22 its conditional commitments for more than $1.37 billion in loan guarantees to BrightSource Energy, Inc. in support of the construction and start-up of three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants (CSP) in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California. The loan…
The California Energy Commission (CEC) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released on February 12 a joint staff assessment and draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Solar Two Project, a 750 megawatt (MW) project to be located in Imperial County, about 100 miles east of San Diego.…
As of 21 February 2010, worldwide more than 213 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including at least 16226 deaths.
Want cops ? Pay up.“That bill is for their share of the operating costs of the Unified Police Department.”$186 for homeowners. $81,912 for Wal-Mart.“Hospitals, churches and non-profit organizations will also be assessed the fee.”Gotta pay to pray.The mob might be cheaper.Coming soon to a…
The Department of Environmental Protection has ordered Schreiner Oil and Gas Co. to provide a permanent solution to water supply issues at two homes the company’s drilling activity impacted near ...
On 17 February 2010, the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Cameroon reported three cases of Yellow Fever in Banjoun and Fantun districts of the country's Western Region.
The Department of Environmental Protection in seeking public comment on a revised draft of its air quality plan approval for Adams County-based Tucker Industrial Liquid Coatings. The company began ...
The Department of Environmental Protection has approved the first phase in its evaluation of the proposed Sandy Run Landfill expansion in Broad Top Township, Bedford County. By approving the environmental ...
The Department of Environmental Protection announced today that it is acting immediately to plug an abandoned oil well that is releasing natural gas into the air near a residential neighborhood in Moon ...
A well-established financial management firm with a successful track record of investing in green technologies and sustainable forms of energy has been chosen to manage Pennsylvania’s new Green ...
The wind turbine that Louis Solis and Jose Santistevan fashioned in about 20 minutes promptly registered a 5.1 on the voltage meter in their Denver West High School classroom, tops in the class.But Solis and Santistevan, both 17-year-old juniors, were determined they could do better. So, they bent…