First Pandas Born After Devastating Chinese Earthquake
Twelve-year-old giant panda, Guo Guo, who was relocated after May's devastating earthquake in the Sichuan province of China gave birth to twin cubs on Sunday. She became the first panda to bear cubs since the disaster and the first to give birth around the globe this year. The elder of the two small pandas weighs only 170grams. Guo Guo was ...
Hungry Seagull Swoops From the Sky to Steal Sandwich
In the seaside town of South Shields, in north east England, on King Street a greedy seagull enjoys a sandwich in the sky. How is that possible you may ask? Well, there's a story, somehow similar (at least to some shoppers) to Alfred Hitchcock's movie, 'Birds'. A 27-year-old woman, from Northumberland, was trying to eat her sandwich when a giant ...
Vegetarian Diet Causes Loss in Libido
Remember how horny Labord’s Chameleons are? There's a guy in China who's not going to die young of violent sex and he's blaming it on a vegetarian lifestyle. Or more precisely, that's what his doctor is telling him. When the guy saw that friends of his were suffering from obesity, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and diabetes he decided to ...
G-8 Summiteers Unlikely to Reach an Agreement on a Climate Deal
I am not sure how many musketeers there were, but, there are at least eight G-8 Summiteers who are acting like their Disney counterparts. The group just started meeting today and have already all but concluded that they won't reach a deal on fighting global warming. Here's why: 1. Global inflation resulting from soaring food and fuel prices are too much. 2. African poverty ...
7 Points Where A Little Child Shall Lead at the G-8 Summit
The Junior Eight Summit group handed the senior group a proposal - 1. ''put forth a treaty that includes all nations and has strict but reasonable guidelines for meeting greenhouse gas emission targets." 2. "have progressive short- and long-term goals and a revised framework which ensures that promises are kept." 3. "promote the rights of children, especially girls" 4. "boost investment in Africa" 5. "tackle ...
Labord’s Chameleons Die Young – Possible Cause: Violent Sex
After spending most of its lifespan incubating inside its shell, a tiny chameleon that only lives in southwestern Madagascar, hatches, engages in brutal sex and then dies. Image: Christopher J. Raxworthy Real name Furcifer labordi or Labord's chameleon, it's one of the smallest known chameleons on Earth. It's also become famous for being able to quadruple or quintuple its body size in ...
Chic Goods Made from Waste
Japan has ideas out the gazoo when it comes to recycling. At an upmarket residential area in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward one man is making colorful accent rugs from old clothes, 1960's-style lamp shades from corrugated plastic board, and candleholders from old bicycle chains. It's called the ecoprinka brand with the aim of "Co-existence with the Earth means enjoying doing ecologically ...
Japan will spare Humpback Whales for another year
GP is hoping that Japanese whalers did NOT read the Top 12 Hotspots for Whale Watching. Japan is notorious for hunting humpback whales in the Antarctic region among other places by using a loophole in a 1986 International Whaling Commission moratorium that allows countries to kill 1,000 whales each year for 'lethal research.' Japan is not the only culprit. Norway ...
Trigeneration Power System Developed in Japan
Kansai Electric Power C0 will work in cahoots with three other companies to develop a 'trigeneration system' that can produce electric power and also utilize waste heat and CO2 emissions, all to improve farming productivity. Toyota Turbine and Systems Inc. (yeah, they are related to that Toyota) will design a small gas turbine that can burn liquified natural gas to generate ...
When Mother Nature Doesn’t Get it Right – Square Watermelons
How often do people thing they can do things better, improve on the way our planet and all its intricacies have been designed? We reroute rivers, relocate forests, try to make it rain, try to make it stop. One Japanese group has taken the initiative and has successfully reshaped the watermelon. Yup, to be sure. A group in Kagawa Prefecture ...
