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There is no TGIF for the 700 captive elephants of Kerala, India. If it isn’t yet another political campaign parade, it’s a trade fair. If not that, then another temple festival. They walk with fireworks blasting, drunkards reeling. They travel in open-air vehicles and stand in the scorching sun.
Among the people who saw the effects of an earthquake as big as the Chilean quake of Feb. 27 was none other than Charles Darwin.
A San Francisco Bay Area start-up has big plans to use the bay’s wind to help power a technologically advanced ferry to carry up to 400 passengers to The City in the traffic-plagued metropolis.
For the second straight year, the much-loved California Brown Pelican population is experiencing a mystifying die-off.
As of now, it is perfectly A-OK to pack loaded, concealed guns into most U.S. National Parks and Wildlife Refuges. Congress said so. President Obama concurred.
The warm temperatures that are playing havoc with the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. have less to do with El Niño than a little-recognized weather phenomenon called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
Crews battling warm temperatures and lack of snow at Winter Olympic venues near Vancouver, B.C. are turning to a harmless plant pathogen to help create snow and save what little snow and ice they have.
Those darned snowmobilers.
One year after the U.S. Congress gave them 11,000 acres in California’s Eastern Sierra to roar about, the federal government announced an aerial crackdown on continued snomo encroachment in nearby wilderness areas.
The great news in California’s High Sierra this January is that its fabled snowpack, for years underfed by an apparently vengeful Skadi, is almost back to normal after a week of roiling storms left some measuring stations over 100 percent of what is normal for an average April. That means come the spring, the waterfalls tumbling into Yosemite Valley ought to be spectacular — awesome perhaps. That might not be so good for the park.
Like “The Island of Misfit Toys,” many old electronics this holiday season were shipped off to distant places after they are replaced. However, unlike the popular Christmas movie, most of this electronic garbage, or e-waste, won’t find a happy home in the end.
The truth is, most used electronics, which can contain high levels of toxins, will end up in landfills at home or abroad.
A study by the Environmental Protection Agency found that of 2.25 million tons of televisions, mobile phones and computers tossed in 2007, only 18 percent were recycled; the rest were thrown away, mainly in landfills.