Global warming and polar bears.

Photo of cute polar bear cub borrowed from this site.

Before delving further into the subject, let’s have some reality check first. Polar bears, especially the cubs, are cute but they are the largest land carnivore and are extremely dangerous. I mean, we look at them and see cute, cuddly, stuffed toys [...]

Swineburne project compresses 2,000 movies into a DVD.

This report from News.com.au caught our attention because 2,000 movies in a single disc is quite a lot of data. It will surely have an impact on the resources we use to make DVDs. In summary, researchers from the Swineburn University of Technology have found a way, using nanotechnology, to add 2 more [...]

World Forestry Day on March 21.

Wikipedia states that Forestry is the art and science of managing forests, tree plantations, and related natural resources. People often visualize gargantuan logging equipment clearing huge swaths of forest to feed our ever increasing need for wood-based products. This is only a small portion of the careers in forestry available to those who want to [...]

March 28 Earth Hour

Vote Earth! That’s going to be our war cry for Earth Hour this year. Observed since 2007 every last Saturday of March, this year’s Earth Hour will be at 8:30-9:30 P.M. on March 28, 2009. Now is the time to get some fun activities planned.

For Earth Hour countries and cities participating in 2009, [...]

Phone tech for the environment by Motorola.

There’s been a lot of concern about the impacts on the environment of a mobile phone. Toxic components and recycling issues are two of them. With cellphones companies churning out new models every year to keep up with new technologies, responsible consumers are often faced with the question of how to recycle a cell [...]

February 2, 2009 is World Wetlands Day.

On February 2, 1971, the Convention on Wetlands was signed on the shores of the Caspian Sea located at Ramsar , Iran.  To celebrate the moment, the first World Wetlands Day was observed in 1997, the rest is history.

We have since took advantage of the increasing awareness to promote the protection and conservation of wetlands [...]

How to recover a dead nicad.

How many gadgets do we use everyday? Most of these gadgets use batteries. The most commonly used I can think of are players, hand-held games, and cameras. Thankfully, we have rechargeable NiCad batteries to power them.

Our trustworthy NiCads do have their limit and sometime we are left with dead batteries. Are you one [...]

2009 is the Year of the Gorilla.

No, we’re not talking here of the Chinese Zodiac and its 12 animal signs. THAT year will start around a month from this date. The Year of the Gorilla started on December 1, 2oo8.

That’s when the United Nations declared 2009 as the year of the endangered giant primate to highlight their plight due to disease, [...]