Written by Joshua S. Hill

A massive storm swept through the Amazon Forest in early 2005 and killed half a billion trees as it went.

A new study has shown that the long line of severe thunderstorms which swept through the Amazon in January of 2005 took down between 441 and 663 million trees. Though not the first time storms have been thought responsible for such widespread deforestation, it is the first time an actual body count has been provided for a particular storm.

Written by Michael Ricciardi

It rises 143 meters  above central London, making it the district’s tallest residential structure. Its nickname is ‘The Razor” owing to its sharp angular design. It’s also the first skyscraper to have electricity-generating wind turbines built into its core design “fabric”. In a city not as suited for solar power, as say Phoenix , AZ, London is now starting to take advantage of one of its more plentiful, renewable resources: wind.

Written by Joshua S. Hill

A top member of the European Commission has said that European countries should freeze new deep water drilling until the causes behind the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are investigated. EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said in prepared remarks he was to deliver to the European Parliament in Strasbourg that there should be a complete moratorium on new drilling permits until the causes of the accident are known and corrective measures are taken for similar operations.

Written by Joshua S. Hill

One degree of warming may be too much for some countries, with heat waves possibly commonplace by the year 2039.

A new study by Stanford University climate scientists has looked at two dozen climate models to project what could happen in America if carbon dioxide emissions raised the planet’s temperature by 1 degree Celsius between 2019 and 2039. What they found flies in the face of what climate scientists have been suggesting is possible.