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Wind Power on Farms for Better Crops

Wind provides a great source of renewable energy. Besides this obvious benefit, researchers now say that wind turbines installed on farms might actually improve the quality of crops. The usage of wind power has expanded significantly over the last ten years, allowing experts to draw up a pertinent conclusion regard...

21 December 2011
02:23 GMT

Berlin Welcomes Urban Rooftop Farm

Berlin entrepreneurs want to minimize the ecological footprint of our eating habits. Instead of relying on expensive food imported from different countries, traveling by plane or other large vehicles before it ends up in refrigerators, ingenious developers try to implement changes by welcoming an urban rooftop farm i...

6 December 2011
03:21 GMT

Greenspeed Pick-Up Truck Powered by Edible Oil Breaks Biofuel Speed Record

Boise University’s mission of launching a fully functional, fast pick-up truck powered by vegetable oil is now completed. The team of students is now bragging about their innovative Greenspeed that reached 155 miles per hour during a drive test in Southern California. They prove that modern eco-friendly techno...

25 November 2011
03:24 GMT

David and Victoria Beckham Buy $2,000 Pair of Micro Pigs

Some celebrities really do like pets, which is by now a well known fact. Actually, a single look at Paris Hilton or Britney Spears shows how much some stars love animals of all kinds, as well as the lengths they’d go to just to have one to their liking. The Beckhams, for instance, have recently paid no less tha...

5 November 2009
15:11 GMT

How Ants Evolved Agricultural Systems

One of the most interesting shows offered by nature in tropical South America is represented by the leaf-cutter ants (Atta). A sole colony can leave a tree leafless in just one night. But these ants are real farmers, which do not eat the leaves, but use them for making compost for cultivating fungi in their undergrou...

25 March 2008
05:57 GMT

How Dangerous Could the New Krakatoa's Eruption Be?

Krakatoa volcano, located on an island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, produced on August 26-27, 1883 the most massive volcanic explosions ever recorded, which generated the loudest sound historically reported: it was distinctly heard as far away as Perth in Australia (1930 mi (3100 km)) an...

13 November 2007
04:53 GMT

Supercow

New week... New game and this time it's again... No... We do not have a puzzle this week... I was really not in the mood for one anyway...I was about to choose one, because I didn't find any other good game around, but then... I was saved... by the Supercow. Ha! No, this game has nothing to do with the Cart...

12 October 2007
04:27 GMT

... Cultivate Butterflies

It's like any normal culture in which for an abundant and healthy crop you have to be careful against furtive predators like insects, spiders and birds. This way, the product with the most beautifully colored wings on Earth will be achieved at thousands of km away from its origins. Butterfly growing is a commerc...

7 March 2007
10:23 GMT


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