... was a 50 miles trip.  Image via Wikipedia It is now used as a floating warehouse by the Peruvian navy. It was replaced by the Ollanta which was ... into Titiaca. Image via Wikipedia The lake itself has forty one islands, some of which are inhabited.  It also has a group of around forty artificial islands made from floating reeds and inhabited by people known as the Uros. Their original ...

... in size every decade and is now believed to be roughly twice the size of Texas. But one research organization estimates that the garbage now actually pervades the Pacific... Scientists say the garbage patch is just one of five that may be caught in giant gyres scattered around the world's oceans." Read the entire article "Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash."

One great album in a decade is an achievement, two great albums in one year is exceptional, yet this trio with saxophonist Lotte Anker, pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Gerald Cleaver does it. After "Live At The Loft", published earlier this year, also on Ilk, the trio is back with a new studio album. Anker also figures on the excellent "Mokuto" album. Cleaver participated in ...

baltimoresun.com reports Annapolis intends to test a floating island in a local lagoon that, if successful, could help clean the water ... to Mayor Ellen O. Moyer…… Floating islands are created from recycled plastics and planted with wetland ... a test to see whether the technology can be implemented in larger areas of the bay. For more information about Annapolis’ floating wetland go ...

... from our list: we visited the floating torii of the holy island of Miyajima. Miyajima (its real name is Itsukushima) is one of the many islands that speck the Inland Sea between the Southern end of Japan’s ... Mt. Misen is lovely. The Inland Sea is jeweled with many small islands. One should really spend some time there to explore all of them. On the way back down from the ...

... It lies just off Pulau Jong, which is among our last untouched Southern Islands. Here's a view of Pulau Jong with Pulau Sebarok ... being afloat in the sea, will allow seawater to flow underneath the floating modules and will not cause any irreversible damage to the marine ecosystem.& ... 1 studies, completed in late 2007, showed such floating storage to be technically feasible and comparable in cost to ...

One should not miss Lindsey Hoshaw’s gruesomely fascinating article in Tuesday’s NY Times, about the vast garbage islands in the Pacific. Most of us had heard about these giant floating garbage collections, but somehow Hoshaw has gone the needed distance to make us feel how impossibly and fantastically awful these land

... remain generally over the ocean Friday evening. The islands didn’t get nearly as wet as what we saw on Thursday, at least not thus far. The heavy precipitation ... winds blowing…some moisture may get carried across the islands into the south and west leeward beaches locally ... wavy surfaces on the leaves easily trap the floating particles of pollution, which either remain stuck to the leaves ...

Markus Hofko / The Rainbow Monkey’s Islands. Islands is a series of sculptures showing miniature snapshots of life. Isolated pieces of land, that look like they were wrenched from the earth by some force of nature, are floating through nowhere. All that is left is a random group of living beings who do their best to survive.

SYDNEY – More than 100, and possibly hundreds, of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials said on Monday.An ... Division glaciologist said the ice chunks, spotted by satellite photography, had passed the Auckland Islands and were heading towards the main South Island, about 450 kilometres (280 miles) northeast.Scientist ...