Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Ranjay Mitra
There are scores of these hybrid buses running in the Big Apple. The city authorities wanted to make it a little easy on the environment by running these buses on alternate fuel.
The bus, parked right in front of the Whoo hoo! bill board seemed to be a nice remark from all the New Yorkers! This [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Ranjay Mitra
As a national effort for cleaner environment New York City has been operating Hybrid Electric buses from 1998. And by the end of last year, 2007, the NYT fleet should have had about 550 hybrid electricity powered buses running in the city.
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In November 2005, the California Transportation Energy Future Conference gave [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Ranjay Mitra
The Joubert family has settled in Botswan to film and photograph the African Wildlife in it’s natural environment. Giving up a luxurious city life, they have been working for the National Geographic for over 15 years now. And they have produced some marvelous films over the time.
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Stalking the big cats on their jeep and [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Ranjay Mitra
Mr. Rabinowitz of the WCS, New York, has been fighting his personal battle to save the wild habitats of the Jaguars. The “necklace” as it is called, is a strip of of green forest nearing Panama in South America that has been very crucial to the successful revival of the Jaguar population.
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As for the [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2007 by Ranjay Mitra
National Geographic published an article back in January 2006 on the grandeur of the Grand Canyons. The article, aptly named, The Unexpected Canyon (http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0601/feature3/), with photographs from Mike Nichols, reveals the immense possibility of challenges and discoveries that the canyons still hold for us. Apart from being a geological treasure chest that reveals of [...]
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