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Oct. 9, 2000: Ozone Hole Exposes Chilean City 2000: The Antarctic ozone hole extends so far north that health officials in Punta Arenas, Chile, start warning residents not to go out in the midday sun. At 53 degrees south latitude, Punta Arenas is the world's southernmost city, sitting on the Straits of Magellan only 900 miles from Antarcti Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Oct. 9, 2000: Ozone Hole Exposes Chilean City 2000: The Antarctic ozone hole extends so far north that health officials in Punta Arenas, Chile, start warning residents not to go out in the midday sun. At 53 degrees south latitude, Punta Arenas is the world's southernmost city, sitting on the Straits of Magellan only 900 miles from Antarcti Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Ozone hole bigger in 2008 than last year The ozone hole over Antarctica in 2008 is larger in both size and ozone loss than last year, but not as large as in 2006, the European Space Agency said Tuesday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNN |
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US toughens standards for ozone The US tightens ozone standards for first time in 10 years but new targets fall short of campaigners' demands. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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US toughens standards for ozone The US tightens ozone standards for first time in 10 years but new targets fall short of campaigners' demands. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC World |
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Mini-black hole is smallest ever but still strong WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA scientists have identified the smallest black hole ever found -- less than four times the mass of our sun and about the size of a large city. Home > Rss Directory > General > Reuters |
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Geoengineering Quick-Fix Would Wreak Ozone Havoc Pumping the atmosphere full of sulfur could cool the planet -- but at the cost of our ozone layer. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Geoengineering Quick-Fix Would Wreak Ozone Havoc Pumping the atmosphere full of sulfur could cool the planet -- but at the cost of our ozone layer. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Oct. 22, 1938: Xerox This 1938: Inventor Chester Carlson produces the first electrophotographic image. It's the precursor of the Xerox machine. Carlson was an engineer who couldn't get a job in his field during the Great Depression, so he took work in the patent department of battery-manufacturer P.R. Mallory. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Oct. 22, 1938: Xerox This 1938: Inventor Chester Carlson produces the first electrophotographic image. It's the precursor of the Xerox machine. Carlson was an engineer who couldn't get a job in his field during the Great Depression, so he took work in the patent department of battery-manufacturer P.R. Mallory. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World : In the Cold War '60s, as the space race heated up, another race began: to the center of the earth. Well, perhaps the Soviets and Americans couldn't drill quite that deep, but they could try to get to the so-called Moho, more formally the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, the theorized but m Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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How the Soviets Drilled the Deepest Hole in the World : In the Cold War '60s, as the space race heated up, another race began: to the center of the earth. Well, perhaps the Soviets and Americans couldn't drill quite that deep, but they could try to get to the so-called Moho, more formally the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, the theorized but m Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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James Bond menaced by red hot Chilean Motorised protest shakes Quantum of Solace The mayor of a small Chilean town has expressed his displeasure at the hoisting of the Bolivian flag over his home by mounting a motorised disruption of filming of next Bond outing Quantum of Solace.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Safeway Restricts Purchases of Chilean Salmon Safeway, the third-largest supermarket chain in America, has restricted some purchases of farm-raised Chilean salmon over concern about a virus that is killing millions of fish there. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Palmer wins with birdie on 18th hole - Sports Network Canoe.caPalmer wins with birdie on 18th holeSports Network - 25 minutes agoPalm Coast, FL (Sports Network) - Ryan Palmer rolled in a 10-foot birdie putt at the 18th hole on Sunday to win the Ginn sur Mer Classic.Palmer wins with a birdie on the last hole The Associa Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Salmonella Outbreak Exposes Food-Safety Flaws - Wall Street Journal XinhuaSalmonella Outbreak Exposes Food-Safety FlawsWall Street Journal - 18 hours agoBy JANE ZHANG and JANET ADAMY The twisting road that led federal investigators to announce Monday that they found a single contaminated jalapeño pepper grown in Mexico and sitting at a Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Hefty black hole weighs in at 33 Suns Record-breaking stellar-mass heavyweight Researchers have confirmed that a black hole lurking in the dwarf galaxy IC 10, and dubbed IC 10 X-1, weighs in at up to 33 Suns, double the previous record for a "single star" black hole held by M33 X-7 which tips the scales at 16 Suns.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Mediate leads; Woods double bogeys first hole at Open - Golf - ESPN StarPhoenixMediate leads; Woods double bogeys first hole at Open - GolfESPN - 1 hour agoSAN DIEGO -- For the third time in four days, Tiger Woods double bogeyed the first hole at Torrey Pines, and he's lost the lead at the US Open.Rough start for Tiger Woods at US Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage - The Associated Press The Associated PressQantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselageThe Associated Press - 2 hours agoMANILA, Philippines (AP) - The 346 passengers were cruising at 29000 feet Friday when an explosive bang shook the Qantas jumbo jet.Qantas 747 Makes Emergency Landing Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Vista as insecure as Windows 2000 Good news for users of Windows Vista. According to figures compiled by PC Tools, the OS has experienced only slightly more vulnerabilities than Windows 2000, which appeared eight years ago when malware was far less common. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |