I'll Have a Natural Disaster Thanks

I have heard the term 'Natural Disaster' uttered too many times this year. And we are not even half way through it. The East Coast of Australia has been hammered. Northern Queensland have experienced some of the...

Large Tidal Waves Devastate Northern Coast of Papa New Guinea

    Large tidal waves devastated the northern coast of Papa New Guinea on Tuesday. Early estimates have concluded that over 400 people have lost their homes as well as several businesses have been...

House of Representatives' Web site Overwhelmed by Millions of E-mails

The proposed $700 billion bailout has brought immense media attention as well as that of ordinary Americans, and the surest test of that came from the House of Representatives' own website, which was deluged with...

Women survive car cliff plunge

Talk about luck! Four women in the UK drove off a cliff and plummeted 30 metres, but they happened to land in a swimming pool below them. The driver is suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol."Four women walked away with minor injuries after their car plunged 30...

Wave power all at sea until [political] tide turns

Tidal and wave power; the technology is here and improving. According to this article, Scotland is on the ball, and one of the biggest obstacles in the UK is lack of interest, imagination and will on the part of...

Tidal power feeds electricity to National Grid in world first

"Working like an underwater windmill, the turbine's two rotors are propelled by some of the world's fastest tidal flows that stream in and out of the Lough at speeds of up to 8 knots. It is moored to the sea floor...

Men find dolphin in inland garden

"The dead dolphin in the garden The dolphin was removed by environmental health officers Mystery surrounds the discovery of a dead dolphin in the garden of two sailors in Dorset who live on a steep hill half a...

Director General of MI5 humiliated in whistleblower battle against journalist

"Having been left with no option other than to resign from the Security Department of the Home Office, John Francis Smith soon found another job in the NHS and though not as well paid, he survived comfortably...

Jakarta warned of Christmas tidal surge

"JAKARTA (JP): A second high tide in less than a month is likely to hit Jakarta's shores on Dec. 23 and 24, said an Indonesian-Dutch tidal monitoring body."

Bangladesh Cyclone:10,000 people may be Dead

Thousands of homes were ripped apart by ferocious winds, and tracts of farmland have been severely damaged. “The first priority is to distribute food and other relief items, to provide emergency shelter, and to...

Thames Barrier closures highlight growing flood risk

The Thames Barrier closed for the third time in four days on Monday after the highest tidal surge since the facility opened in 1983.

E-mail mistakes that make you look bad

"I get an awful lot of e-mail. Sometimes, people are looking for help with their computers. Some of it is fan mail. Other folks are mad about something I said or wrote. Add to this the barrage of press releases and an occasional blast from the past when a former classmate or...

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Ireland to test first wave energy generator

"There is enough harnessable energy out there to equal the entire generating capacity of the national grid"  --  Eoin Sweeny, Technology Manager with the Marine Institute.

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