Mud Volcano Forcing 3,000 Families To Move

Mud began to appear four months ago after an accident occured deep in a drilling shaft on the seismically charged island of Java.  Now, it covers 665 acres, and has forced Indonesia to resettle more than 3, 000 families whose houses have been swamped, which could cost up to an estimated $162 million.  This mud [...]

Fish Used To Detect Terror Attacks

A very common type of fish we have almost all heard of and think nothing of, and have even probaly caught before when fishing, is surprisingly being enlisted in the fight against terrorism.
This helpful and unlikely fish, the bluegill, also known as sunfish,  is being used in many big cities, including New York and San [...]

Clinton Unveils Clean Energy Investment Fund

The last post i did was on the first part of Clinton’s global issues conference where billionaire Richard Branson pledged $3 billion.  The next day, and the last day of the conference, President Clinton added to the already highly successful conference thanks to Richard Branson by announcing the launch of an investment fund expected to raise more [...]

Branson Bets Millions To Curb Global Warming

I was happy to read an article the other day that shows that the world is beginning to travel in the right direction and people are beginning to take a stand.  Richard Branson is a British billionaire behind Virgin Atlantic Airways and the multi-platform Virgin brand.  On Thursday at the Clinton Global Initiative, a conference [...]

Saving Penguins

Penguins have never really been looked upon as an endangered species, but on Dyer Island near Cape Town, their extinction was looking probable. 

                                                                 Image Credit: CapeNature via Reuters

In a last ditch effort to save the colony, South African officials are building the endangered penguins a housing development of fiberglass igloos hoping to replicate natural nesting grounds [...]

New Global Warming Fear

I read a disturbing article in the newspaper over the weekend that presented a new issue regarding global warming.  Global warming gases, mostly methane and carbon dioxide, trapped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thought and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb.
Warming [...]

California First To Pass Legislation on Global Warming

Global warming is defined as the the increase in the global temperature as a result from enhancement from the greenhouse effect, primarily by pollution. It has been an issue for years, and it only keeps getting worse and worse as not much is done to prevent it.  Carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas, has finally had [...]