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Space Launches As You’ve Never Seen Them Before
Oh. My. Golly. What a shot. Taken in 1998, this awesome image shows NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft shooting into the sky above Cape Canaveral. Destination is in sight. The fiery launch tail forms an arch in the foreground, while the moon, near first quarter phase, looks on, some 250,000 miles away. Prepare for blast-off as we explore stunning photos of space launches and wonder what it all means from an environmental point of view.
Continue reading...5 Picturesque Infernos: Fumaroles From Around The Globe
Thursday, April 9, 2009
The volcanic vents known as fumaroles have serious associations, often lying on active volcanoes in times of comparative quiet between eruptions. These smouldering fissures in the earth are visible emitting hot steam and volcanic gasses in places as far and wide as Italy, Indonesia, Hawaii, Yellowstone and Iceland. With their fizzing, more than faintly menacing behaviour, it’s easy to see why fumaroles are shrouded in myth and legend.
Continue reading...The Amazing Mud Volcanoes Of Azerbaijan
Friday, April 3, 2009
Bubbling and belching away like witches’ cauldrons, mud volcanoes are one of nature’s more murky oddities. They’re found spattered throughout the world, but astonishingly around 300 of the earth’s estimated 700 mud volcanoes lie in Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea. Capable of ejecting millions of cubic metres of hydrocarbon gasses plus mountains of mud, these geological marvels – some of them over 200 metres high – are a sight to behold.
Continue reading...Chrysler Offers 2.99 Gas. Is This a Good Idea?
Friday, May 9, 2008
Don’t you worry about a thing, darlin’. That gas is capped at 2.99. Image from MShades I think I’ve been more than a little vocal about the gas price crisis in America, but have, aside from making fun of our Presidential candidates, left out all of [...]
Continue reading...Fill Your Car For $5
Friday, April 25, 2008
I imagine that our readers in the UK are giggling furiously at the American panic over gas prices this year as we finally begin to think about paying what those of you in the old world have been for years. It just looks like a place with cheap [...]
Continue reading...Norway’s Emission Reduction Plan Was to Give Offshore Oil Rigs Clean Electricity
Sunday, January 6, 2008
From the “Wait a second. What?” files comes the story of Norway’s failing attempt to fight global warming by providing offshore gas and oil rigs with clean electricity. Photo via NASA Norway has been attempting to fight global warming by, among other ways, providing rigs drilling for oil and [...]
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Monday, May 4, 2009
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