Tag: Air Travel - Page 5
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I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here
Now that the planes are flying and the Royal Navy is on the seas, it's time for a bit of fun... Everyone gets a perverse enjoyment out of seeing the rich and pampered reduced to travelling steerage and the air shut down was a
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Volcano Vs. Planes - The Emission Equation
OK, admittedly it's pretty tough to gather reliable data from an erupting volcano, but we're suckers for a graph and the folks over at Information is Beautiful have been busy crunching
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The Return of the Contrails
The end of the ban on flying seems to be touch and go with most flights still cancelled until later this afternoon. But some are rhapsodizing about a world without planes and the joys of cloud watching
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Volcanoes, Revolutions and Wars Seem To Go Together
In 1783, another Icelandic volcano, Laki, erupted and kept spitting out ash and 120 tons of sulfur dioxide (equal to 3 times the annual industrial output of Europe) and 8 million tons of hydrogen fluoride. 25% of the population of Iceland died, either
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200,000 Tons of CO2 Emissions Avoided Each Day Volcano Grounds Flights
It may be a serious headache if you're in the middle of it and trying to get someplace, but the Iceland volcano eruption shutting down air travel has had one decidedly positive environmental effect. Resurgence
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Grounded Under the Volcanic Ash: Eyewitness Report of the Chaos in Europe
It started with a strange hue of gray in the skies. "Looks like rain," my friend commented as we started up the steps from the train platform on Thursday evening. Commuting home after being isolated all day behind the firewall
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7 Luxury Ways to Travel That are Also Easy on the Earth
Image: massaud digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/04/7-luxury-ways-to-travel-green.php';Everyone needs to take time off to relax. Travel is a major element of getting away from it all. And while an eco-volunteering vacation can be an
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Are Zeppelins the Future of Air Travel? (Slideshow)
Concocting crazy flying machines has long been a favorite hobby of mankind. Our generation, accustomed to being whisked to our
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Are Zeppelins the Future of Air Travel?
The Dream of Flight Humans have long concocted glorious images of flying machines with an aspiration to defy gravity. With air travel called into question due to issues including fuel consumption and the effect that airplane contrails have on the earth's
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British Airways' to Create Jet Fuel from Landfill Waste
With the US Airforce announcing that cost-competitive algae jet fuel may be just months away, greener flying is looking less and less like pie in the sky. Despite seeing its profits squeezed by
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Aerolabe Flying Machine: Solar Powered Future of Aviation?
Part of the blimp rebirth movement, a cigar-shaped airship is under development at a French mechanics institute. Dubbed the Aerolabe, the vessel is designed by
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Qatar Airways Enters the Aviation Biofuel Ring - Starts Biomass-to-Liquids Project
And then there were... well, I've stopped counting how many airlines are trying to develop a biofuel that will enable them to keep on flying and become carbon neutral(ish), but Qatar Airways is the latest to enter the ring. The
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Airports Use Antacid to Fight Ice and Snow
Last week, the temporary closing of Frankfurt's airport in Germany, due to bad winter weather, affected 8000 people. In order to fight the ice and snow, the airport used 700.000 litres of antacid to get rid of the three-day snowfall. This is
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Air Travel: More Trouble Than It's Worth?
As we noted earlier, air travel got significantly more miserable in the last few days after Mr. Sizzlypants' (Xenie Jardin's coinage) failed attempt. Has this changed your attitudes toward flying, and perhaps to consider alternatives?
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Is Air Travel Now More Trouble Than It's Worth?
Forget the lines while you wait to get on the plane, the real torture starts when you are in the air. Gizmodo lists the new rules, and flying has just become a far more miserable experience than it ever was before; we
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Aircraft Vapor Trails Responsible for 15-20% of Arctic Warming
Image credit: hodgers/Flickr digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/aircraft-vapor-trails-responsible-for-15-20-percent-of-arctic-warming.php';Even though there are an estimated 35 million commercial airline flights per year little research
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Santa's Arctic Visitors Curb Emissions
Daily flights to see Santa Claus will now produce fewer emissions. Ho. Ho. Ho. No kidding. Isn't that a nice gift to the planet? A total of 35 planes soar in each direction to and from the UK and the
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Flying Through Thunderstorm Equivalent to Getting 400 Chest X-rays?
Here's one that motivates me, Miss Wanderlust, to pack away my passport and more seriously consider that staycation.
