Tidal power, also called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into electricity or other useful forms of power. The first large-scale tidal power plant (the Rance Tidal Power Station) started operation in 1966. Harnessing the power of ocean tides has long been imagined, but countries are only now…

After laboring for weeks on end, pushing themselves to their physical limits, the time has now come for the beavers to reap the rewards of their hard work. Not only can signs of the beaver species hard work be seen in the successful colonization of vast areas including that of the Taiga and Tundra in…

When you tell a loud-mouth friend that they “really like the sound of their own voice,” there may be more truth in that than you realize. According to a neuroscience study from the University of California (UC) Berkeley, the brain selectively hears one’s own voice while dimming all surrounding sounds. In their own heads, people…

EPA can enforce its climate change regulations while litigation challenging those regulations is pending, a federal appeals court ruled last Friday. The denial of a motion to stay the implementation of EPA’s rules removed one of the final barriers to implementation of the Agency’s first-ever stationary source greenhouse gas (“GHG”) limits, which are scheduled to…

How long a Southern Giant Petrel is likely to live comes down to the length of a particular sequence of DNA in their blood cells, researchers have found. If these sequences of DNA are long, a giant petrel probably still has a while left before it has to leave this mortal coil. But if they’re…

A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used for production of electric power. Individual turbines are interconnected with a medium voltage power collection system and communications network. At a substation, this medium-voltage electrical current is increased in voltage with a transformer for connection to the high voltage transmission system.…

Butterflies are one of the few insects on Earth that people actually like and admire. Unfortunately, mankind’s beloved butterfly has fallen on hard times on the continent of Europe. According to a new study from Butterfly Conservation Europe, grassland butterfly populations have declined by 70 percent in the last 20 years.

A centuries-old astronomical mystery may be finally solved. A scientist says she has figured out how Saturn’s spectacular rings formed. The dramatic process could help explain other solar system mysteries as well.

[BOGOTA] Fishermen in Colombia will be able to tap into the latest satellite information to chase shoals of fish in their depleted fishing grounds. Using satellites from NASA — the US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration — and the European Space Agency, researchers from the National University of Colombia identified chlorophyll hotspots, which indicate the…

A blizzard dumped thigh-deep snow on some areas of the upper Midwest on Sunday, playing havoc with travelers and causing the roof of a large stadium, the Metrodome, to collapse in Minneapolis. The snow hit Wisconsin and Minnesota the hardest as it moved eastward. Blizzard and winter storm warnings were in effect for Chicago and…