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The Turbine Light concept harnesses the power of the wind from cars rushing past to light up the ever-darkening roadways.

The Fusion Torch was invented by Dr. Bernard Eastlund and William C. Gough in 1968 to solve the problems of energy supply and to close of materials from use to reuse. The Fusion Torch can take us to the stars.

A Polish priest has installed an electronic reader in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass,

A group of Sudbury researchers studying how to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas burden, and generating value-added activities on non-productive mine lands has received $250,000 from MITACS Inc. to pursue its objectives.

A police cruiser is outfitted with three cameras mounted to the roof that continuously scan licence plates 12 metres in front of the cruiser and about nine metres behind it while on patrol.The images are linked to an on-board computer and database that automatically generates a hotlist" of similar plates across Canada, and the device sounds if there's a match.

Merseyside police are using the "spy drone", fitted with CCTV cameras, mainly for tackling anti-social behaviour and public disorder.

For the staff and scientists at SNOLAB, a 2-kilometre trek underground every day is the norm. The day starts in darkness as they head to Creighton Mine in the early morning hours. For the first leg of the journey, standard mining gear is used – headlamps and all! After travelling 6,800 feet underground

In May 1992, the Society for Environmental Communications started India’s only science and environment fortnightly, Down To Earth (DTE)

Richard Branson unveiled his Virgin Galactic spaceliner for tourists willing to pay 200,000 dollars a ticket Monday for a trip into the weightlessness of space in a craft designed to make the perilous return home "like a giant shuttle cock."

Collège Boréal recently announced the intention to develop a new facility called the Xstrata Nickel Biodiversity Applied Research Centre.

Less than half the population believes that human activity is to blame for global warming, according to an exclusive poll for The Times.

i-Tree is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the USDA Forest Service that provides urban forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. The i-Tree Tools help communities of all sizes to strengthen their urban forest management and advocacy efforts by quantifying the structure of community trees and the environmental services that trees provide.

Using the forests of the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence and northeastern Boreal regions of Ontario as our natural laboratory, we explore patterns in the distribution, composition and productivity of plant communities, and the ecological drivers that produce these patterns.