Plastic pollution in sea reaches alarming levels
July 5th, 2012 - 5:32 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, July 5 (IANS) Plastic pollution is reaching alarming levels off the coast of Pacific Northwest, which is just as bad as the notoriously polluted North Sea.University of British Columbia ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
French firm to invest $4.2 bn in Norway
February 3rd, 2012 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, Feb 3 (IANS) French giant energy producer Total said Thursday it is investing $4.2 billion for the development of a new oil field located in the North Sea off ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Jellyfish shut down Scottish n-reactors
June 30th, 2011 - 7:21 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 30 (IANS) Nuclear reactors at a plant in Scotland have been hit by a school of jellyfish, a media report said.A large influx of jellyfish from the North ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
EU plans to pay fishermen for collecting plastic from the sea
May 8th, 2011 - 7:18 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 8 (IANS) The European Union (EU) plans to pay the continent's fishing fleets for collecting plastic as part of an initiative that will help reduce pollution in sea.As ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Researchers map how ice sheets shrank during Ice Age
February 13th, 2011 - 4:41 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 13 (IANS) Researchers have mapped for the first time how the last British ice sheet shrank during the Ice Age.
The maps record the pattern and speed of shrinkage of ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Lessons that the Gulf Oil spill taught us
January 8th, 2011 - 6:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 8 (ANI): Following one of the biggest disasters in recent history, BP boss Tony Hayward admitted to his company's insufficient response to the Deepwater Horizon rig accident in the Gulf ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientists discover ‘balloon head’ dolphin
November 3rd, 2010 - 4:44 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 3 (ANI): Dutch researchers have identified a new type of dolphin, that appears to have had a broad snout and balloon-like forehead, from a fossil found in the North Sea ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
BA Expresses Penitence For Its ‘Crash Warning Error’ That Horrified Its Passengers
August 29th, 2010 - 7:34 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
August 29, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): British Airways (BA) made an apology to its passengers subsequent to a crisis communication of BA inadvertently warning that the passengers in a BA ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
BA Apologizes To Passengers Following Crash Warning Error
August 29th, 2010 - 7:15 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Aug 29, (THAINDIAN NEWS) This was a flight experience that all the 275 passengers of a British airways flight are going to remember for the rest of their lives. The ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Pilot presses wrong button causing mid-air scare
August 27th, 2010 - 12:24 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 27 (IANS) A British Airways (BA) pilot caused a mid-air scare when he pressed a wrong button, triggering an announcement that the aircraft was about to make an emergency landing ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Dutch Air Force rescues man from sinking boat in the North Sea
August 9th, 2010 - 8:34 pm ICT by BNO News
NORTH SEA (BNO NEWS) -- A search and rescue helicopter belonging to the Dutch Air Force rescued a man from his yacht in the North Sea on late Monday morning, the Dutch ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Trump reveals master plan for ‘world’s greatest golf course’ in Scotland
February 17th, 2010 - 1:16 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb.17 (ANI): American tycoon Donald Trump has revealed his master plan for "the greatest golf course in the world" to be built on a windswept stretch of Scottish coastline.According to The ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Atlantic puffins may be dying because of worsening conditions within North Sea
January 10th, 2010 - 2:58 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 10 (ANI): A new research has determined that a recent increase in winter mortality in Atlantic puffins could be due to worsening conditions within the North Sea.The research team included ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Hundreds in Netherlands and Germany see ‘exploding fireball’ in sky
October 19th, 2009 - 1:03 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 19 (ANI): Reports indicate that hundreds of people in the Netherlands and Germany have reported seeing a huge exploding fireball in the sky on October 13.According to a report ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Tour De France 2010 Route Declared
October 14th, 2009 - 10:18 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar,
Paris, October 14, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Route for the 2010 Tour De France has been declared. The cyclists will have to ride through some rocky roads of Pyrenees in the ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |
Mysterious ball of light spotted in night sky over Germany
October 14th, 2009 - 6:54 pm ICT by IANS
Hamburg, Oct 14 (DPA) A mysterious ball of light in the night sky, which alarmed people across northern Germany, was most likely caused by a falling meteorite, astronomer Thomas Grau said Wednesday.
Witnesses ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
All 16 aboard British helicopter dead in North Sea crash
April 2nd, 2009 - 6:27 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 2 (DPA) British police Thursday said that there was no hope of finding any survivors from the helicopter that crashed into the North Sea off the coast of Scotland the ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
UK Police loses hope of finding survivors in North Sea copter crash
April 2nd, 2009 - 6:11 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 2 (ANI): The British Police has given up hope of finding survivors of the North Sea helicopter crash.Eight bodies have been taken out from the water after the tragic ... Read more...
Posted in World |
16 feared dead in North Sea ‘copter crash
April 2nd, 2009 - 12:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr.2 (ANI): At least 16 people, 14 of them oil workers, have died in a helicopter crash in the North Sea.The Super Puma was just over 16 miles offshore when it ... Read more...
Posted in World |
10 feared killed in British chopper crash in sea
April 1st, 2009 - 11:30 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 1 (DPA) At least 10 people were feared dead and six others were missing after a helicopter ditched in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland Wednesday.
The Bond Puma ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Helicopter carrying 16 people crashes into the North Sea(updated)
April 1st, 2009 - 8:57 pm ICT by admin
SCOTLAND (BNO NEWS) -- A helicopter carrying 16 people has crashed into the North Sea off Scotland, a spokeswoman for the Aberdeen Coastguard confirms to BNO News.
The aircraft, a Bond Offshore Helicopter, ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Helicopter carrying 16 people crashes into the North Sea
April 1st, 2009 - 8:51 pm ICT by admin
SCOTLAND (BNO NEWS) -- A helicopter carrying 16 people has crashed into the North Sea off Scotland, a spokeswoman for the Aberdeen Coastguard confirms to BNO News. It is believed the aircraft ... Read more...
Posted in World |
British helicopter crashes in North Sea, all rescued
February 19th, 2009 - 8:28 am ICT by IANS
London, Feb 18 (Xinhua) All 18 people on board a British helicopter that crashed in the North Sea Wednesday evening have been saved in a dramatic rescue operation.
The Super Puma helicopter carrying ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Massive jellyfish swarms dominate world-class fisheries
December 13th, 2008 - 5:31 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 13 (ANI): A new online report has indicated that massive jellyfish swarms are transforming many world-class fisheries and tourist destinations into veritable jellytoriums that are intermittently jammed with pulsating, ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Climate change is occurring faster than predicted, warns WWF report
October 20th, 2008 - 12:32 pm ICT by ANI
London, October 20 (ANI): A new WWF report warns that climate change is occurring much faster than predicted by the scientific fraternity, and will wreak havoc unless action is taken on ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Deora rules out cut in retail fuel price
September 16th, 2008 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) The government will cut oil prices only if international crude prices dip below $67 a barrel, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said Tuesday.His announcement came as the global ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Fuel price cut ruled out despite falling global rates
September 12th, 2008 - 9:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) The government will not cut fuel prices despite the continuous fall in global crude prices, said Petroleum Minister Murli Deora here Friday."I welcome that crude prices have ... Read more...
Posted in Uncategorized |
Drivers beware: satellite navigators are star struck
July 22nd, 2008 - 2:14 pm ICT by IANS
By Venkata Vemuri
London, July 22 (IANS) The next time the satellite navigator in your car directs you to London Road in Leicester instead of the national capital, blame the aurora borealis - ... Read more...
Posted in World |
As oil prices rise, battle for strategic control of oil reserves will be joined (Commentary)
June 16th, 2008 - 12:46 pm ICT by IANS
By R.S. Kalha
Why is Iraqi oil so important and coveted so much? Three reasons are usually given. First, Iraq's oil is of very high quality and has attractive chemical properties such as ... Read more...
Posted in World |
A corner of Germany looks Russian for film on Tolstoy
May 19th, 2008 - 9:26 am ICT by admin
By Sophia-Caroline Kosel
Wittenberg (Germany), May 19 (DPA) The Elbe Valley of Germany is a long, long way from Russia, but with a few deft changes, it feels uncannily like the real thing ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Stone Age hand axes found in North Sea possibly date back to 100,000 years
March 18th, 2008 - 2:40 pm ICT by admin
Washington, March 18 (ANI): An amateur archaeologist has found an unprecedented collection of Stone Age hand axes, among material collected at the bottom of the North Sea, which possibly date back ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |