Tracking Sand
By Krishna Rau
Those owning beachfront property in Spain are getting a little closer to the ocean than they may want.
A study by Spain’s environment ministry predicts that beaches will shrink by an average of 15 metres by 2050 as sea levels increase by 2.5 millimetres a year and stronger waves and currents erode the coastline. Some beaches [...]...read more
Book review: Quiet for a Tuesday
By RYAN MURDOCK
Tom Sheppard; Desert Winds Publishing, 2008; 248 pages; 233 colour photos–hardcover, $50 US; available in NorthAmerica from Overland Video
You’re alone in the middle of Algeria. Your entire library of irreplaceable and out-of-print topographical maps has been confiscated by the military, and they suspect you of being a spy. It’s all just a bizarre misunderstanding of [...]...read more
Book review: Travels in Arabia Deserta
By Ryan Murdock
Doughty’s imposing 1,400-page tome is one of those strange books many people hail as a masterpiece but which few of those people have read....read more
Rubber duckies dropped into glaciers
By Krishna Rau
Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are using the toys to figure out how glaciers are melting and how they affect ice movement....read more
Spain’s solar tower plant
By Krishna Rau
Spain has built the world’s largest solar tower plant in the desert outside Seville. The plant consists of more than 1,000 mirrors—each about half as big as a tennis court—which direct the sun’s rays on water pipes at the top of a 40-storey-high concrete tower.
The heat from the mirrors converts the water into steam, which [...]...read more
Maldives seeks new land
By Krishna Rau
The government of the Maldives is looking to buy a new country for its citizens before climate change leads to the nation being drowned by rising seas....read more
Vibrations Could Create Clean Power
By Krishna Rau
Researchers in Britain are testing the green technology, known as energy harvesting, in places as diverse as oil refineries and discos....read more
Giant snakes bridging the gap
By Krishna Rau
Recent fossil discoveries in Colombia have led scientists to conclude that giant snakes may have dominated parts of the tropics following the demise of dinosaurs in those areas....read more
Where’s the world’s smelliest place?
By Krishna Rau
Looking for the smelliest places on Earth? A new Japanese website has developed a map to try and track them....read more
Sandpipers ‘pumped up’ on natural steroids
By Krishna Rau
It seems some birds are able to pump up their bodies with natural steroids in preparation for migration....read more
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