EcoPortal.net

Jordan gave the green light to a $1 billion ammonia plant powered entirely by the desert sun, and it could change everything the country exports

Jordan's Council of Ministers has formally approved the country's first-ever green ammonia and hydrogen project — a $1 ...
EcoPortal.net

A turquoise pit viper and a snake that can glide through the air are among the unknown species found by scientists in a hidden cave in Cambodia

A hidden cave network in Cambodia has left scientists speechless. They found several species hidden away that have never been ...
EcoPortal.net

Greece’s coastal “wind harps” took over the internet as a new way to generate energy, but the full story behind them is not as perfect as it seemed

Images of Greece's "wind harps" quickly went viral on the internet. They combined energy generation with art. But where they ...
EcoPortal.net

Scientists searched for 120 years to map the sixth sense until organisms in the human stomach began pointing them toward a surprising answer

For over a hundred years, we have searched for the human sixth sense. Now researchers believe we may have not just one. but ...
EcoPortal.net

Italian engineers got tired of traditional wind turbines and built a “carousel” of kites that could generate as much energy as 2,500 windmills

A new kite carousel system has emerged from Italian engineers. The system can easily outperform an entire wind farm and could ...
EcoPortal.net

Geologists found a “time capsule” island in Alaska frozen for 20,000 years, and now they fear the entire region could eventually melt

A remote island in Alaska hides a 20,000-year-old time capsule that suggests the Earth may be about to face a new melt ...
EcoPortal.net

304 humpback whales feeding at the same time: off South Africa, a “supergroup” just shattered every record

What they had stumbled into off the coast of South Africa was a gathering of 304 individual humpback whales — a confirmed ...
EcoPortal.net

Workers were building a wind turbine when they uncovered something buried beneath the ground that pointed to a lost Bronze Age civilization

A routine dig at a new wind turbine site exposed something else entirely. Fragments emerged out of the ground pointing to a ...
EcoPortal.net

California wants to put speed-limiting technology in the cars of its most dangerous drivers — here’s what the pilot would look like

Roughly 12 people die every day on California's roads. About a third of those deaths involve speeding — a toll that hasn't ...
EcoPortal.net

A diver entered a hidden cave in Texas expecting darkness until he stumbled into an Ice Age world where creatures from thousands of years ago still lingered

A diver entered a hidden water cave in Texas expecting emptiness. Instead, he found evidence of a hidden Ice Age World that ...
EcoPortal.net

In March, hundreds of thousands of “special” KitKat bars vanished and now the company is asking the public to help track them down

In March of this year, hundreds of thousands of "special" KitKat chocolate bars vanished in Italy. Now, the company is asking ...
ecoportal.net

Wind kept behaving strangely over a solar farm until scientists uncovered a hidden effect that may be reshaping the climate around it

A study has found that solar farms may have an unforeseen impact on climate. They are changing the wind patterns around them and nobody understood why.