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Hydrogen-Powered Plane Takes Flight

Friday 4 April 2008 @ 12:10 pm

“For the first time in the history of aviation, Boeing has flown a manned airplane that was powered by a hydrogen battery,” Boeing chief technology officer John Tracy told a news conference at the firm’s research center in the central Spanish town of Ocana.


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Hype Machine: Searching for ZAP’s Fleet of No-Show Green Cars

Wednesday 26 March 2008 @ 10:59 am

Zap promised all-electric environmentally-friendly automobiles for Joe consumer. Unfortunately, they lied.


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Huge Iceberg Breaks Away, Antarctic Ice Shelf ‘Hangs By A Thread’

Tuesday 25 March 2008 @ 2:11 pm

ScienceDaily (Mar. 25, 2008) — British Antarctic Survey has captured dramatic satellite images of an Antarctic ice shelf that looks set to be the latest to break out from the Antarctic Peninsula. A large part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula is now supported only by a thin strip of ice hanging between two islands. It is another identifiable impact of climate change on the Antarctic environment.


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Oestrogen Polution Turning Boys into Girls

Friday 29 February 2008 @ 11:24 am

” - it is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born girls in the U.S. and Japan alone.”


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Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

Monday 25 February 2008 @ 3:31 pm

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.


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