Planet Relations

It’s been 103 years since the Anderson Electric Car Company based in Detroit made the 1907 Detroit Electric car. Watch GM assemble its new Chevy Volt in a mere 90 seconds in this time lapse video.

According to the California Department of Water Resources, California agriculture irrigates 9.6 million acres using roughly 34 million acre-feet of water (1.1 trillion gallons) diverted from surface waters or pumped from groundwater. This water produces amazing results. California produces over 250 different crops and leads the nation in production of 75 commodities. California is the [...]

Spanish photographer Jose Luis Ortiz placed a camera on his pet golden eagle, and the bird provides another perspective. Turn the music off as it takes away from the flight itself.

Timelapse – Los Angeles Wildfire from Dan Blank on Vimeo. Environment Canada estimates that for every acre of primarily coniferous forest burned, approximately 4.81 metric tons of carbon is released into the atmosphere—between 80 percent and 90 percent in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2), with the rest as carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH4). [...]

It seems that almost everyone with an Internet connection has seen at least one video on YouTube. Well not quite, but according to a recently released report (January 9th) from the Pew & American Life Project, roughly 48% of Internet users have been to video sharing sites like YouTube. Last year the figure was 33%. [...]