Halloween is one of the best holidays of the year, when we think about its creative potential. Every year, a group of college students join efforts to build their own spooky place in which they invite all the community members to spend a frightening Halloween. For five years, the participants contributed to create a... |
2 November 2011
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A lone plastic bag was spotted floating 600 kilometers southeast of Canada, over the final resting place of what was once the biggest tragedy in history, the RMS Titanic.Oceanographer David Gall of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts, is in charge of a comprehensive survey of the Titanic ... |
9 September 2010
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New eco-friendly 32 gallons garbage cans are made out of recycled chip bags and scraps of rubber elastic trimming leftovers, from the disposable diapers' production. The promoters of this kind of recycling are the same that made MP3s out of Cheetos bags, a New Jersey-based recycling company named TerraCycle. T... |
23 August 2010
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is already known to researchers as a major threat to the oceanic ecosystem. In the northern parts of the Central Pacific Ocean, currents conglomerate tons upon tons of garbage and wastes, creating artificial islands of junk, and causing many species to die from intoxication with plasti... |
25 February 2010
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As the number of black bears in the US grows, largely due to protection measures taken over the past century, the chances of these animals interacting with humans increase as well. Wildlife authorities managing national parks, where this threat is most severe, turned to science to help them devise the best possible m... |
1 February 2010
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is probably one of the few places in the world you really don't want your ship to down near. What may seem like a chain of islands from well above turns out to be nothing but hundreds of miles of loosely bound trash, floating around in the Northern Pacific Ocean. But the accurate ... |
28 August 2009
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A group of marine biologists and environmentalists from California is setting sail to the Northern Pacific this week, to visit the immense patch of garbage that has accumulated in the region due to converging currents. In the years since this formation has been made public, it has become obvious that the patch, now t... |
5 August 2009
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The human-generated thrash that's been increasingly filling the orbit of the Earth for decades now turns more and more into a serious problem. Since it is already past the phase of saying a lot about us as a race, something must be done before spacecraft and satellites are actually affected by it. Thus, proper i... |
25 November 2008
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An innovative technique, devised by Geoplasma (GP), an Atlanta-based company, will be used to power up some 50,000 homes in Florida. The new technology could have been a part of a SF movie just a few years ago, as it incorporates plasma beams to vaporize the trash. But GP officials say that their new processing unit ... |
11 November 2008
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We have recently written a piece on the Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) device that NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson threw overboard on July 23rd, 2007. Although it was not a small object, no official announcement was made so as to warn the public of the danger it might pose upon entering the atmosphere, possibly becaus... |
5 November 2008
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Plastic, the worst kind of thrash, doesn't affect only people, as the latest research indicated, but it also has an impact on oceans and on their ecosystems, to a greater extent than one would imagine. In fact, large portions of the oceans are becoming synthetic, from all the slowly decomposing plastic items th... |
5 November 2008
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