Sentinel-3 ESA’s Next Generation Satellite Scheduled to Launch in

Sentinel-3 satellite which is scheduled to launch in 2013 is the third in a series of five space missions European Space Agency (ESA) is developing for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. The missions main objective is to determine the...

Peru Protest Leader in Asylum Bid

Alberto Pizango, an Indian leader in the conflict emerging between the indigenous people of the Amazon and the Peruvian government has sought refuge in the Nicaragua's embassey.  The Peruvian government has...

Extrasolar Planets ...and kudos to NowPublic.com

Planetary.org is a very important, highly informative website.And, NowPublic.com is amongst their options for sharing articles.Planetary News: Extrasolar Planets (2009)Only 2 Earth Masses! Scientists Close in on Distant EarthsBy Amir Alexander April 22, 2009 "The hunt for...

Energy Symposium Held Without ‘Fossil Fuelers’

The non-partisan Reform Institute’s National Energy Symposium drew more than 45 corporate executives, policymakers and industry experts to Washington, D.C., Tuesday to openly discuss the nation’s energy,...

Tour Offers Writers Education in Natural Gas

During a two-day fact-finding trip this week, I learned a lot about Williams’ cutting-edge natural gas exploration and production efforts taking place in Western Colorado’s Piceance (pronounced “pee-ahnce”)...

Japan launches satellite to track greenhouse gases

Japan successfully launched the world's first satellite dedicated to monitoring global greenhouse gas emissions on Friday as part of efforts to tackle climate change. " The project will help scientists measure...

Petronas Urged by Ethopian Rebels to Avoid Ogaden

Ethiopia's Ogaden rebels warned Malaysia's Petronas [PETR.UL] on Tuesday they would not tolerate oil exploration in Ethopia's Somali region, saying it would link the company to war crimes by the Ethiopian...

The 7th Shanghai Biennale 2008 Concluded Today

I saw the 7th Shanghai Biennale (2008) just two days before it concluded today after it had opened on September 9 this year. Some of the works by Chinese artists - at the conceptual level and sometimes the scale...

Mars Lander Succumbs to Winter

"Mission managers said Monday that they had not heard from the NASA spacecraft for a week and that they thought it had probably fallen quiet for good.“At this time, we’re pretty convinced that the vehicle is...

Cuba claims massive oil reserves

This is very good news for oil hungry humans , but the explopration of oil with the declining trend of oil prices along with weakening US economy is going to be very tough task.The Cuban economy...

Moon ship design not safe for NASA space crew

It was almost 40 years ago that Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the Moon (or so history has it). Yet, that epic landing has not been replicated to this date, and won’t be coming around until 2019. As NASA plans...

U.S. ship heads for Arctic to define territory (Oil territory that is...... ....

With weighted Flag in hand I claim this underwater area for the U.S.A.........*splash*, glurp..glurp...g.l..u...r....p Underneath the ice, the Arctic Circle may contain as much as a fifth of the world's...

Launch of Private Rocket Fails; Three Satellites Were Onboard

"A privately funded rocket was lost on its way to space Saturday night, bringing a third failure in a row to an Internet multimillionaire’s effort to create a market for low-cost space-delivery business. The failure occurred a little more than two minutes after...

India plans to build eight 700-MW nuclear plants

"The country plans to build eight 700-MW nuclear plants to boost its nuclear power generation capacity to about 10,000 MW and is stepping up exploration to uncover new uranium mines, a top Atomic Energy Commission official has said. At present the country has a nuclear...

Polar Shift to happen in 2012

Polar Shift  to happen in 2012"In 2012 the next polar reversal will take place on earth. This means that the North Pole will be changed into the South Pole. Scientifically this can only be explained by...

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