environment
Water Tank Causes Chaos in Guadalajara’s Flooded Streets, Collides with Bus
Hurricane Hilary was downgraded to a tropical storm when it made landfall in Mexico on Saturday, but the torrential downpour that the storm brought caused chaos throughout the country nonetheless. Jalisco was hit with heavy rain on Sunday, flooding the streets of Guadalajara and nearby cities. In Zapopan, floodwaters…
Michigan Tornado Flips 15 Semis, Triggers 25-Car Pileup
If you feel like the weather has been out of control lately, you’re not the only one. Wildfires in Hawaii. A hurricane headed for California. Ridiculously hot temperatures across large parts of the country. Storms knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of houses. It’s all getting to be a bit much. It’s also…
2022 Government Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceeded $1T
In 2022, global governments subsidized fossil fuels to the tune of $1.3 trillion, according to the International Monetary Fund. It seems member countries of the G20 just can’t wean themselves off oil and gas. So much for all the big promises made by the G20 back in 2009, when subsidies were reportedly going to be…
Dudes Rule
The Chippewa Flowage or Lake Chippewa as it is also known, is a lake in Northern Wisconsin that was created by damming the Chippewa river. According to chippewaflowage.com, when the land was flooded in 1923 peat bogs floated to the surface and were gradually covered with vegetation, which has kept them intact. Some of…
Partially Wind-Powered Cargo Ship to Test China-Brazil Route
Remember in the olden days when ships weren’t fitted with engines and propellers to power them across the oceans? Back then, they used massive sheets of fabric called sails to capture the wind and use that to push them through the waves, novel idea right? Well now, that vintage tech is making a comeback on a cargo…