via ENN | GNN staff |
Tue December 23, 2003
Germany has only a small amount of its own natural oil reserves, but an enterprising power plant chief believes it has found an alternative source of energy with a bright future in an aging nation: used incontinence pads.
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Dutch research has demonstrated that there are no technical barriers to wind energy generating a significant part of the electricity supply. With the appropriate technical measures, possible problems in the electricity grid can be taken care of properly.
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via ENN | GNN staff |
Wed December 17, 2003
Following all-night negotiations, European Union talks on protecting both dwindling fish stocks and fishing fleets entered a third day Friday, with fisheries ministers slowly moving toward consensus, officials said.
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In southern Arizona, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border, a heat-sensitive remote surveillance camera was recently triggered by a warm body. But it wasn't an illegal immigrant in search of a job, or a courier in the drug trade. It was a jaguar (Panthera onca).
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A beautiful reptile once thought functionally extinct in the wild is back from the brink - barely. Can remote Cambodian mountains continue to shelter the Siamese crocodile?
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Shuei Co. Ltd., a paper container manufacturer in Higashi-Osaka City, announced that it has developed "Hokkaru," Japan's first double-layered paper container for food. Seeking to promote waste reduction, reuse and recycling, the company worked with a non-profit organization to develop these new containers for use as food and beverage trays and for food takeout.
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Starting from October 20, Kobe City in Japan will introduce a "green delivery" system under which the use of eco-friendly vehicles will become mandatory for the delivery of goods to City Hall and other municipal offices.
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An amateur botanist has discovered a new flower, a member of the Iris family, near Kleinmond on the southern Cape coast.
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One of the most visible successes of the Endangered Species Act, peregrine falcons, are thriving once again on the Northeast's wild mountain cliffs and have found new hunting grounds among its urban skyscrapers.
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Two endangered baby sea turtles that Midwestern tourists snatched off a Florida beach over the summer may be back in the warm water soon.
The turtles, members of the threatened loggerhead species, were to be taken from Chicago's Shedd Aquarium on Thursday and released the next day off the West Palm Beach, Fla., coast, said George Parsons, the aquarium's director of collections.
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 Australia's Federal Parliament today tabled a plan to protect more than 11 million hectares of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park - creating the largest network of marine sanctuaries on Earth. "This is a win for all Australians," said Imogen Zethoven, Great Barrier Reef campaign manager at WWF-Australia.
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More than half of Canada's vast northern forest, about 1 million square miles in all, would be exempt from logging and other industrial development under an agreement announced Monday by a coalition of native tribes, environmentalists, and businesses.
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A bird believed to have been extinct for more than a century has been found alive and warbling in Fiji. BirdLife Fiji researchers re-discovered the long-legged warbler (Trichocichla rufa), last seen in 1894, and managed to photograph it for the first time. The 12 pairs of the rare bird were found in Wabu Forest Reserve.
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Environmentalists are excited about the decrease in the production of the greenhouse gas Methane in the atmosphere.
Dr. Paul Fraser, a chief research scientist at the CSIRO Atmospheric Research, said: "Methane is the second most important gas after carbon dioxide. It is responsible for a fifth of the enhanced greenhouse effect over the past 200 years."
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