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Curaçao: The World’s Most Diverse Island
Take one third European heritage, one third native Caribbean ancestry, one third African culture, shake and sprinkle with a handful of other ethnic influences and you got Curaçao, one of the world’s most diverse communities. For centuries, people have come from all over the world to this tiny speck in the South Caribbean Sea to try their fortune. Cultural harmony didn’t happen overnight and Curaçao’s history is one full of murder, betrayal and exploitation.
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...The Terror Blob Strikes Venezuela!
Monday, August 4, 2008
The roads are deathly quiet. Antonio Perez's shabby old taxi carefully makes its way along the main highway into Caracas. Yet terror is only yards ahead. A looming shape becomes visible through the gloom and Perez, who drives these roads every day, knows exactly what it is - he swerves, losing control of the car, sparks go flying...
Continue reading...Oil Spill Threatens Argentine Capital
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Image via Wikipedia An oil spill 20 kilometers long is heading towards Buenos Aires and may have greater catastrophic effects if it reaches land.
Continue reading...Oil Billionaire T. Boone Pickens Turns To Wind
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Image from brooklyn For those of you not fortunate enough to know who T. Boone Pickens is, let me give you a brief rundown: he’s an egomaniac, oilman, and owns a hedge fund named BP Capital Management. He’s worth 3 billion dollars, and has given 230 million-plus to [...]
Continue reading...Is Kansas The New Saudi Arabia?
Monday, May 12, 2008
Image from Peter Pi No we don’t mean that the citizens of the state will be under the rule of princes and will take camels to work. That would be hilarious, but no. Our comparison is of utilities and in particular, energy.
Continue reading...Why Americans Are Driving 1M Mile Less a Day
Friday, May 9, 2008
Opinion piece: by Ben Ray Image from ^riza^ I’ve said it before, I’ve proved it, and I’ll say it again: the way to break an addiction to fossil fuel is to make it prohibitively expensive. Until that happens, very few people have the impetus to change their lifestyles significantly [...]
Continue reading...Are Polar Bears On A Deathwatch?
Monday, April 21, 2008
Everybody take along look at the picture below, and prepare yourself to mist up a little bit when Coca-Cola begins running their annual wintertime commercials… Image from sabinche The World Wildlife Fund has declared that polar bears will be extinct by 2050 unless the Canadian government can lead the [...]
Continue reading...Black Gold: How Brazil May Have Catapulted Itself To Massive Oil Riches
Friday, April 18, 2008
As I type this, plans to invade Brazil that haven’t seen the light of day since 1936 are being dusted off in the Pentagon. Image from hanneorla The proud home of Ronaldo, Pele, and some of the hottest women on the planet has struck 33 billion barrels of oil [...]
Continue reading...Brian Gordon on Global Warming: Worldwide Scientific Conspiracy or New Religion?
Monday, April 14, 2008
Brian Gordon is a Canadian Green Party member and candidate trained by Al Gore to present An Inconvenient Truth. Take your pick, say the sceptics. I was once and still am a sceptic, though I like to think I’m an honest one: somebody makes a claim, I want [...]
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Friday, September 25, 2009
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