Tag Archives : Atlantic Ocean

Come 2011 Paris Air Show, the world will witness a remarkable advancement in eco-friendly aviation as one of the newest freighter planes from Boeing, the 747-8 Freighter will attempt to make a landmark cross Atlantic flight using only biofuel. This remarkable attempt is expected to raise awareness for the need of eco-friendly fuel for the aviation [...]

While most people would agree that the New York City’s MTA subway system needs to be reworked on, it is being drowned in the Atlantic Ocean. The subway system needs to revamp its organization since people are tired of the dreary service, lack of cleanliness, constant reconstruction of tracks, annual fare hikes and delayed service. Apparently, subway [...]

The result of the search for a route used in the service of Google maps shows no lack of sense of humor to company employees. British newspaper The Mail Online has found that when asking for directions on how to go from China to Japan, countries separated by almost 800 km of sea. The search result gives a description of the way by road to be traveled [...]

With annual revenues of more than $ 20 billion, no long-term debt and adults $ 33 billion in cash, Google is going through a challenge that most companies in the world would probably like to have: deciding on which projects should allocate resources parts. Since the company’s inception in 1998, most revenue comes from advertising related to its [...]

The Briton who walked more than 9500 km from the source to the mouth of the Amazon River ended its journey on Monday (9), claiming to have been the first to complete such Herculean task. Ed Stafford, 34, a former British Army captain who served in Afghanistan, left Peru on April 2 to call attention to threats to the Amazon. He had to postpone for a [...]

There are far-flung places on Earth that have been abandoned by humans. Humans had been there before but extreme environmental conditions made them pack their precious belongings and head to more humanly-receptive climes. Here are some of those abandoned wonders: On the western tip of the Scottish Outer Hebrides is the ‘most windswept, storm-tossed [...]

According to a study that was partly funded by NASA, ‘volcanic eruptions in high-latitudes can greatly alter climate and distant river flows, including the Nile.’ The Nile River is the world’s longest river. The research states that ‘Iceland’s Laki volcanic event, a series of about ten eruptions from June 1783 through February 1784, significantly [...]

In an earlier estimate of the rise in sea level, stated in a previous study published in the March issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, ‘new projections call for an extra 4 to 12 inches (10.2 to 30.5 centimeters) on top of the rise of 8 inches (20.3 centimeters).’ According to this study, ‘if global warming continues, sea levels around New [...]