Posts Tagged ‘English Channel’

Project Sol’R to Fly Across the English Channel

Friday, July 10, 2009 5:07 By Ramya

Yet another airship is getting ready to flutter across the English Channel to prove its competence, but this time it’s the sun propelling it. A group of engineering and tech students from France has been working on Project Sol’R have surfaced a solar blimp, which they expect to fly across the English Channel.

The dirigible measuring [...]

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Depletion of Marine Megafauna

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 11:14 By GSerrano

In the Pacific, there used to be hundreds of thousands in whale population. There were once nearly 100,000 grey whales. The numbers have terribly dwindled today.  Sustained fishery of whales from the bays and inlets of the English Channel, as early as the onset of the Middle Ages, is a practice that began in the [...]

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