Wintry weather drives energy prices higher Houston Chronicle | NEW YORK - Energy prices climbed today as another winter storm was expected to dump even more snow on the East Coast. | Already, parts of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington are blanketed in about three feet of snow, knocking out power for tens of thousands of people and forcing govern...
Hawaii is paradise for green-tech entrepreneurs Knox News | KONA, Hawaii — Take a ride in Ron Baird's pickup truck along the volcanic shore of Hawaii's Big Island and he'll show you an inventor's wonderland. | On one parcel of this government-created energy laboratory, rows of mirrors shine white-hot in the sun, turning heat into energy. On another, ...
Federal officials to investigate Connecticut blast The Star | BOSTON (Reuters) - Federal investigators headed to Connecticut on Monday to determine the cause of an explosion at an unfinished power plant that killed at least five workers and hospitalized dozens of others. Firefighters clear debris after an exp...
Damage From Blast Hinders Rescue in Connecticut The New York Times | An explosion that killed at least five people on Sunday at a power plant in Middletown, Conn., did so much damage that rescue workers searching for victims could not go into part of the sprawling plant, officials said on Monday. Related | Before Bl...
Page 1 of 3 Asia Times | CREDIT BUBBLE BULLETIN | The beginning of the end? | Commentary and weekly watch by Doug Noland | Today is a briefer-than usual discussion: a more regular commentary is planned for next week - and at this time I assume my topic will be "a global re...
Rotten radishes prompt gas leak calls in Ohio The Miami Herald | DEFIANCE, Ohio -- An Ohio fire department says the smell of decaying radishes prompted calls from residents worried about a possible gas leak. Tiffin Township Volunteer Fire Department near Defiance in northwest Ohio responded to five reports of su...
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Australia to focus on high skills, cancels 20K visas IBN Live Canberra: Australia will dump 20,000 low-skilled migrant applications to re-focus its immigration intake on high-skilled jobs critical to the economy and help meet growing Chinese ...
Centre to train forest officials to stop poaching of big cats Indian Express | The officials of Uttar Pradesh Forest Department of the Project Tiger areas will be trained by the Central government about the latest techniques in science and technology to tac...
'Trees Outside the Forests' project gets good response The Hindu | V.S. Palaniappan | Coimbatore: During 2009-2010 nearly one lakh teak seedlings have been planted in farmlands in Coimbatore District by the Forest Division and Social Forestry Di...
Ohio fire department says decaying radishes prompt calls over fear of gas leaks Star Tribune | DEFIANCE, Ohio - An Ohio fire department says the smell of decaying radishes prompted calls from residents worried about a possible gas leak. Tiffin Township Volunteer Fire Department near Defiance in northwest Ohio responded to five reports of sus...
Ohio fire department says decaying radishes prompt calls over fear of gas leaks Hartford Courant DEFIANCE, (AP) — An Ohio fire department says the smell of decaying radishes prompted calls from residents worried about a possible gas leak. Tiffin Township Volunteer Fire Department near Defiance in northwest Ohio responded to five reports of...
Official: Toll at 5 in deadly power plant blast Boston Herald | MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — Search-and-rescue crews declared a section of an exploded power plant too unstable to comb through today, a task that lost urgency when officials said everyone assigned to work at the plant the day of the blast had been ac...
Earth's environmental crisis - a man made disaster Merinews UNTIMELY RAIN and floods in Australia, heavy snow in USA especially in Washington D.C and other eastern parts of the country are only a few indications of the environmental crisis our planet is facing. Some air pollutants have reduced the capacity of the atmosphere to filter out the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation. | Many scientists believe tha...
Addressing the food versus fuel debate in Ghana Business Day Online Concerns over energy supply security and oil-price volatility are generating greater interest in alternative energy sources in Ghana. Civil society groups want a comprehensive biofuel policy. Godwin NNANNA in Accra writes that so far the policy has been slow in coming | The lines between energy and agriculture are becoming more blurred. As science ...
