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How to make a solar water heater from plastic bottles Giovana Zilli 6th May, 2010 Retired mechanic Jose Alano invented a simple, cheap, energy saving rooftop solar water heater which is benefiting thousands of people. Here’s how it’s done… José Alano is a model of creativity in tackling environmental problems in Brazil. In 2002, the Continue Reading →
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Containment dome: the 90-tonne chamber was thought to be the best short-term solution to stave off disaster (AFP: Mark Ralston)
BP has been dealt a setback to capping a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after a containment dome encountered flammable hydrate formations as it was lowered onto the leak site.
The gas hydrates, similar to ice crystals, formed on the inside of the 90-tonne chamber as it neared the seabed nearly 1,500 metres below the surface, making it too buoyant and clogging it up, BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles told reporters.
May 8, 2010
MARKETS are demanding urgent action from European authorities to prevent Greece’s debt woes from spreading throughout the continent, amid growing fears of another meltdown in global credit flows.
Investors yesterday dumped Australian shares for the fifth day in a row, sending the ASX200 down 2 per cent to a fresh eight-month low of 4480.7 points. The index has now plunged 12 per cent in the past 15 days, its sharpest correction since the market rally began in March last year.
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The oil slick passes through the protective barrier formed by the Chandeleur Islands, as clean-up operations continue for the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster off Louisiana, on May 7, 2010. The Gulf of Mexico oil slick threatens disaster for the fragile US coast and an army of workers hired by BP, along with the US Coast Guard and local officials in Louisiana, have rushed in to help restrict it. (AFP: Mark Ralston)
BP says it has positioned a 100-tonne concrete and steel dome over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
It will take a couple of days yet to determine if the dome is actually working but hopes are high that it will stem the flow.
Green Party victory start of ‘historic new political force’ Ecologist 7th May, 2010 Newly elected MP Caroline Lucas said her party was now ready to ‘take its rightful place in Parliament’ after her landmark victory in yesterday’s general election Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has become the first ever Green to be elected into Continue Reading →
Scientists say onset of British summer has become increasingly early in the last 50 years, consistent with global warming
British summer in Blyth, Northumberland, May 2009. Scientists say earlier summers are consistent with global warming. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
Britain is broke and the bank holiday weekend was a washout, but scientists at Sheffield University have some rare good news in these uncertain times: summer is coming earlier each year.
According to a new study, the English summer arrives some 18 days sooner than during the late 1950s, when Harold Macmillan succeeded Anthony Eden in No 10 and announced: “We have a difficult task before us in this country, all of us.”