Have you ever wondered if a lava lamp would work on Jupiter?   Yeah, me neither, but Neil Fraser did. To find out he built himself a centrifuge and put a lava lamp on for a spin.

Caribbean weather experts launched a task force Friday to provide Haiti storm forecasts amid fears the 2010 hurricane season could devastate the country's already fragile infrastructure.   French-speaking meteorologists based in Martinique will provide briefings, while Cuba and Jamaica will be asked to send satellite radar imagery, hurricane experts said at the close of a five-day conference in Bermuda.   [[social-toolbar]]Several other countries offered storm tracking and communications equipment as well as personnel to rebuild th

"Everyone should be a vegetarian."   "We should stop all fishing."   "All mining and drilling should be phased out in the next couple of years."   What do all these comments have in common?

  Who doesn’t enjoy a lazy spring day spent lying on your back, watching the clouds float by? They seem to change shape so slowly, yet it happens almost before you notice it.

A powerful cyclone battered Fiji's northern islands Monday, damaging homes and crops and forcing thousands of people to flee to evacuation centres, officials said.   Cyclone Tomas was classified as a category-four cyclone -- the second-most destructive on a five-point scale -- and packed winds averaging up to 175 kilometres (109 miles) an hour, the Fiji Meteorological Service (FMS) said.   [[social-toolbar]]There were no early reports of casualties, although officials confirmed a woman drowned over the weekend in stormy seas as the

It's been said so many times, it has become a bit of a cliche: water is our most precious resource. The world's population tripled during the 20th century — and water use increased at twice that rate.

By now, green technology early adopters know that LED (light emitting diode) lighting is the future. Take, for example, the 100 watt incandescent light bulb. An equivalent LED bulb would only draw 10 watts — and could easily last 60,000 hours.

This sprawling metropolis is built atop one of the richest oil basins in the world.

  Sea levels are rising, and the Maldives is taking notice. An estimated 80 percent of the atoll nation is no more than 3 feet above sea level, so climate change has been a popular topic with Maldives' president Mohamed Nasheed.