General Motors and LG are both very well respected companies in their own right but today the two announced that they will be working together on an upcoming project. The project is, of course, a vehicle that will be designed by GM but LG will have significant input in terms of power and battery technology. […]

Hurricane Irene has been bearing down on the United States and up until today weather experts predicted that the storm would make a direct impact with southern Florida. Obviously this would bring nothing but bad news to the area but today analysts came back with new predictions that should save Florida from quite a bit […]

A school in Long Island New York announced this week that their experiment to reduce power consumption at the school was successful. The project was reportedly able to save the school over on third of a million dollars in a year simply by putting up reminders on sticky notes all around the schools in the […]

Tropical storm Emily marked the beginning of the tropical storm season for much of North America. While Emily might not have been the first storm to form during the season it was the first storm to potentially threaten the coast of the United States. Early storm prediction patterns indicated that Tropical Storm Emily was expected […]

For quite some time now various government agencies have believed that computer data centers and server farms were using tons of power around the country. This week however the EPA released their study on the subject and it was shown that data centers are actually using much less power than previously expected. Data centers have […]

This week the amazing story of how Michael Fishbach saved a humpback whale that was entangled in a mesh of netting has taken the online community by storm. The whale was suffering and was on the verge of drowning when Fishbach and his friends came upon the whale but thanks to their heroic efforts the […]

For the past 87 years the Bornean rainbow toad has been considered extinct as scientists and researchers were unable to find any when searching. Today however we found out that they are in fact not extinct as one was found and photographed for the first time. The Bornean rainbow toad is particularly unique because of […]

Some 150 tiny Diamondback Terrapin turtles held up air traffic on runway number 4 at New York’s JKK Airport for some thirty minutes last week. The occasion was special although traditional, as they were only doing what comes naturally and have been at it for generations. Their breeding grounds lie on the other side of […]

This week the survival status of polar bears was brought to federal courts in order to decide what type of protections should be granted to the species. Previously polar bears were considered threatened which meant that some significant protections were being provided and the federal judge overseeing the hearing decided this week that the protection […]

The world’s forests may soon experience a growth boom in light of the recent discovery that bacteria living in mosses on tree branches are twice as effective at ‘fixing’ nitrogen as those on the ground. The Department of Biology at McGill University was the site of a new study. Headed by Dr. Zoe Lindo, a […]