Jack Russell terriers have been getting plenty of attention lately, thanks to a scene-stealing pooch named Uggie, who starred in Oscar-nominated film “The Artist” as well as “Water for Elephants.” In preparation for the annual Westminster parade of dogs, we offer a little background on a popular and precocious breed. ? Background An avid huntsman named the Rev. John Russell is credited with introducing this pint-size breed to southern England during the mid-1800s.
Welcome to? Make It By Monday , GOOD's weekly DIY feature in which we curate, demystify, and add our own tips for craft projects from around the web (and our apartments).
A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, on its surface — has been found around a nearby star. ? The planet is located in the habitable zone of its host star, which is a narrow circumstellar region where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the planet's surface.
When reporters, politicians, and environmental advocates talk about renewable energy, they talk about wind and solar. This makes sense: Of the newer generation of renewables, wind is contributing the lion's share of electricity generation. California’s wind energy association just announced that 5 percent of California’s power now comes from wind farms.
Some 8.5 tons of radioactive water leaked from a reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but it had not flowed outside the reactor building, Kyodo News said Wednesday, quoting the plant's operator. ? Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the leak occurred in the No.
More than 200 people were plucked from waters off Papua New Guinea on Thursday after a ferry sank but dozens remained missing with rescuers scouring the choppy seas for survivors. ? Operator Star Ships said it lost contact with the MV Rabaul Queen at about 6:00 a.m.
A “theory of everything” from a scientist at Case Western Reserve University got a lot of attention for positing that inanimate objects, from planets and water to strands of DNA, are alive.
Cinnamon has several health benefits.
There's no doubt that the reusable water bottle market is an overcrowded one … slap a “BPA-free” label on it, market it as a “green” alternative to single-use plastic water bottles and you’re pretty much good to go.
Burbank Water & Power opens a sustainable power plant campus as a model for re-adapting industrial sites from water reclamation to solar