Beijing-Shanghai hi-speed rail marks milestone in rail history
The Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway, which is scheduled to open soon, represents a milestone in Chinese and even world railway history. It is even more significant than the high-speed railways...
Iceland’s Grimsvötn volcano erupts, 50 quakes; air chaos unlikely
REYKJAVIK - A volcano erupted under Iceland's biggest glacier on Saturday, with a white plume shooting 18,000 feet into the air, scientists said. However, geologists played down the likelihood it would...
Japan ups nuke crisis severity to match Chernobyl
TOKYO (AP) – Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale — the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster — even as...
Japan’s Coastline Before and After the Tsunami
Japan's Coastline Before and After the Tsunami
These images show the effects of the tsunami on Japan's coastline. The image on the left was taken on Sept. 5, 2010; the...
Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves
Competing currents: A huge whirlpool forms in a harbor near Oarai City, Ibaraki Prefecture, north eastern Japan. The currents that were disrupted after the tsunami were channeled by the...
Timeline of mysterious animal deaths, thus far
There have been alarming unprecedented mass animal deaths around the world. The Santos Republic decided to map it out and post an updated timeline to date, in reverse date order:
01.14.11...
Chinese Project Puts Cow Dung to Work
LIAONING, China. November 23, 2010 (TSR) - A rapidly growing industry in China—dairy farming—is also a major new source of greenhouse-gas emissions. But Huishan Dairy in northeast China is trying to...
Leaking Siberian Ice Prompts Methane Warning
As Siberia's thawing permafrost leaks methane, some scientists are warning of another emerging climate threat.
World’s Police Unite for Environmental Crime Crackdown
DOHA, Qatar, November 19, 2010 (ENS) - The police agencies of the world are supporting INTERPOL's Environmental Crime Programme in an historic display of consensus. Delegates attending INTERPOL's General...
Iran’s Northern Fishing Industry Wanes
TEHRAN, Iran, November 19, 2010 (TSR) - Pollution is contributing to falling catches in Iran’s Caspian fishing industry, local fishermen say. They complain that restrictions preventing them from going out...
U.S., Kazakhstan Secure Weapons-Grade Plutonium From Soviet-era Reactor
WASHINGTON, DC, November 19, 2010 (ENS) - Enough plutonium and uranium to make 775 nuclear weapons has been removed from the BN-350 fast reactor in Kazakhstan, built to breed...
Quantum ‘weirdness’ used by plants, animals
Birds can sense the orientation of the Earth's magnetic field, but can't tell the difference between north or south, and become disoriented by oscillating magnetic fields like microwaves.
