Articles tagged with "Environment"

Mysterious wave heights increase detected

This entry was posted by: Don on December 23rd, 2008
Posted in: Environment, Top stories. Tags: , .

Something strange is happening to the average height of the waves hitting the Pacific northwest’s foggy coastline - they’re growing by 7cm a year. According to Oregon State based researchers, the ... Read full post »

How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World

This entry was posted by: Don on August 22nd, 2008
Posted in: Environment, News Stories. Tags: , , , .

Paul Stamets at TED: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World : TreeHugger. Mushrooms? Save the world? Sounds totally loopy, but by the time this 18-minute talk finishes, you’ll feel like you not only ... Read full post »

How much would carbon tax add to price of petrol

This entry was posted by: admin on July 17th, 2008
Posted in: Comment, Environment. Tags: .

‘Burning one litre of Petrol releases 2.36 kg of CO2 (under the ‘perfect’ fuel/air mixture). I know this sounds unreasonable when one litre of petrol weighs around 0.75 kg, but the majority (ove ... Read full post »