Fargo, North Dakota, USA -
The mayor of Fargo says he's "optimistic" about a new forecast saying the Red River may already have crested and could drop in the coming days.
|
Hat Creek, California -
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
|
Oslo, Norway -
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
|
Dallas Center, Iowa, USA -
Business Week says "the future is taking shape under the windswept corn and soybean fields outside Dallas Center, Iowa," where a group of Midwest utilities is building a facility where excess wind power will be stored underground.
|
Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA -
California environmentalists have recognized Global Electric Motorcars, a Chrysler company, for its leadership in bringing environmentally-friendly technology to the state's residents.
|
Bismarck, North Dakota, USA -
The Public Service Commission has approved a transmission line for a new wind farm in North Dakota and South Dakota.
|
Bismarck, North Dakota, USA -
Among the thousands of people frantically flapping in the snow Saturday in an attempt to set the record for the most snow angels ever made were parents, children, even snowplow drivers.
|
Williston, North Dakota, USA -
Michael Bowman says it is an "exciting time for agriculture" with states moving toward using renewable fuels for energy independence.
|
Bismarck, ND -
Biologists estimate that about 16,000 adult white pelicans have returned to the Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge to nest, after mysterious die-offs and departures of the birds the past two years.
|
Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge, ND -
From an airplane a half-mile above white pelican nesting grounds here, the giant birds are hard to miss.
|
| Page 1 of 2 pages 1 2 > |
|
|
