Archive for November, 2008
The Environmentalist and “Crocodile Hunter”-Steve Irwin
Author: virayvibe
Steve Irwin’s Birth:
Stephen Robert (Steve) Irwin, born 22nd February 1962 in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Steve Irwin’s Death:
Steve Irwin died on 4 September 2006, after having stung by a ray while filming in a documentary near the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Irwin bites, biting in the upper left chest in the form of a cardiac arrest, to kill him almost immediately. His team for emergency medical treatment and tries to recover with CPR, but he was dead in the scene, if the medical team arrived. Read the rest of this entry »
read comments (0)Bottled Water: How Much Energy Does It Take to Make It
Author: virayvibe
Manufacturing, packaging and transport of a liter of bottled water should be between 1100 and 2000 times more energy than the average processing and provide the same amount of water, after peer review, energy, the analysis by the Pacific Institute, a nonprofit research which is based in Oakland, California, USA. Read the rest of this entry »
Ocean Carbon
Author: virayvibe
Oceanographers Todd Bishop and Jim Wood of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory measured the fate of carbon particles from plankton, flowers in the Southern Ocean, data, deep-sea diving Carbon Explorer boxcars around the hours of more than one year. Their study reveals that most of sinks plankton abundant flowers never reaches the deep sea. Read the rest of this entry »