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Flushing Meadows Park has a long and unusual history. It is located ten miles east of Manhattan on Long Island in the Borough of Queens, New York City, between the towns of Flushing and Corona. The park started out as swampy land situated along Flushing Creek. The area skirted ancient Native American trails that were later developed into Rodman Street (today it’s called College Point Boulevard), Roosevelt Avenue and other paved roadways. Be... Read More

Hardly the sexiest headline by any stretch of the imagination. But there again when it comes to institutional reform and changes to the constitution, the subject matter is hardly guaranteed to instill much enthusiasm. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy is fighting constitutional reform on two fronts. There is of course the debate over how to deal with the Irish “no” vote in June to the Lisbon treaty. He’ll be tackling further... Read More

The recession is really taking its toll in the US and over here in the UK, every day more and more people are getting further and further in debt. The US and the UK housing markets are spiraling ever downward with house prices dropping on a daily level. The numbers of repossessions are increasing daily with more and more people getting behind with their mortgage payments. The cost of fuel and food has gone up in leaps and bounds making the poorer... Read More

On the 15 July, the Florida Public Services Commission granted FPL permission to begin work on three major Solar Power plants across the state. The first of these projects is ‘The Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center’, scheduled for construction at the company’s already existent ‘Martin Plant’ site. It is expected to be operational in 2010, and will produce a maximum 75W output. It will combine steam with solar... Read More

With talk of China’s high rates of pollution dominating headlines in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, it is important to remember that sport and the environment can go hand in hand. In the last year, the Chinese capital has been the subject of much media scrutiny surrounding its environmental and emissions policy. In 2005, the European Space Agency declared that Beijing contained unnecessarily high levels of nitrogen dioxide, a bi-p... Read More

Scientists at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology studying satellite date have found that only 1 to 2 percent of forest disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon occured in protected areas, which means that land-use and conservation policies have been successful. Protected areas are 18 times more effective at reducing deforestatio than unprotected areas. Lead author Paulo Oliveira said, “We found that only 1 to 2 % of th... Read More

The UN Environment Program (UNEP) international tree planting campaign, “Plant for the Planet:Billion Tree Campaign”, aimed at recovering forests globally has begun garnering support. One nation that has embraced the concept is Cuba, which will plant 135 million trees this year to recover forests in the Caribbean country. National Forest Director Elias Linares Landa said that Cuba hopes to cover 12.6% of the total planned by all count... Read More

The cerrado, a wooded grassland that once spanned 204 million hectares, half the size of Europe, is quickly being changed into croplands to meet rising demand for soybeans, sugarcane, and cattle. According to a Brazilian expert on the savannah ecosystem, the cerrado is now disappearing at a breakneck rate, twice that of the Amazon rainforest. Dr Ricardo Machado, author of a study said, “The Cerrado was pretty much intact until the 60s, when... Read More

What do you think of when you hear the word recession? Ruin? Breadlines? Layoffs? Used cars? Repossessed homes? A mountain of Home Depot coupons? Everyone fears a recession, but believe it or not, a recession does not mean the end of the world as you know it. In fact, economists view a recession as a normal part of the naturally ebbing and flowing U.S economy. In the same way bulls become bears and hot markets turn cool, capitalist economies occa... Read More