Car Free Mackinac Island
Do you know a place where driving your car on the road is illegal? Well now you can say you do because nestled in between Michigan’s peninsulas is a small…
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Iconic Oceans Are Also Maritime Accident Hotspots
The South China Sea, Black Sea, the British Isles and east Mediterranean are only some of the world’s most iconic oceans at the most risk from shipping accidents. This is…
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Colony Collapse Disorder: Past, Present, Future
Past Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) started popping up in the news around 2006. Not many people knew what the problem was attributed to back then, but a lot of people…
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The Disappearing Package Project
A box of soap that dissolves in the shower? A pod of detergent you can toss in the washing machine? While big brand names are trying to make their product packaging…
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The New Electric Vehicle Race
Back in 2009, auto blog Gas 2.0 published a fun little rivalry between former mayors of San Francisco and Portland who each declared that their city would be the EV…
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Book Review of Mad Sheep
A Fine Line Between Safety and Panic: A Sheep Story My grandmother’s first husband died of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, otherwise known as mad cow disease, years before my grandmother married my…
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Forest Elephants In Danger With New Roads In Africa
The African Forest elephant is a species under threat these days. Scientists in 1989 estimated there were 170,000 elephants left in the wild from approximately 700,000 a few decades ago.…
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First Victims of Global Warming
Well here we have it, Global Warming has officially swallowed an entire island… Rising ocean levels, caused by global warming (which is causing glaciers to melt), will soon make 70,000…
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Honda Fuel Cell Car due in 2008
This sounds like a really great idea doesn’t it? Here we have a car that tops out at 100 mph and travels up to 270 miles on a tank of…
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