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Dad Texts His Late Son's Phone, Gets the Perfect Reply

Out of the blue, in a country town along the Murry River in Victoria, Australia, Kaylene Bell's daughter received a mournful text Saturday morning that read, Love you bud - miss you more than words can say. The 15-year-old replied asking, Who is this? A text pinged back saying 'sorry', explaining that it was his son's old phone number and that he had passed away in 2009. He didn't think the number was being used. April Bell sent the perfect reply.

29 January 30 Views

'Doctor Who' Sends Heartwarming Message to Grieving Fan

The past few weeks have been hard for 9-year-old Thomas Goodall, who has autism and just lost his grandmother in October. Thomas received a comforting video message from actor Peter Capaldi, who plays Thomas' favorite TV character on "Doctor Who".

13 November 32 Views

Benedict Cumberbatch Pens Heartfelt Note for Funeral of Young Sherlock Fan

After Eve Shepherd, a young Sherlock fan in England, defied doctors' odds for 14 years, actor Benedict Cumberbatch sent his sympathies with a heartfelt note that was read at her funeral.

27 February 30 Views

Funeral Home's Adopted Sheepdog Knows Who Needs Comforting

Morris the sheepdog seems to possess "an uncanny ability to know who is most in need of comfort," according to directors at the Baker Funeral Chapel

26 May 28 Views

Virgin Develops Jet Fuel With Half the Carbon Footprint of Others

Virgin Atlantic Airways and LanzaTech are developing an aviation fuel that will cut in half the carbon footprint of conventional flights. Instead of using plant stock for the fuel, waste gases are being captured from steel mills. The gases, which would otherwise burn up in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, are fermented and chemically converted into jet fuel.

13 October 30 Views

UK Scientists Invent Hydrogen-based Fuel for Cars - Emits No Emissions

Researchers at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Oxford have invented a synthetic fuel, which costs just $1.50 per gallon and could run in existing cars. Because it is hydrogen based, it would produce zero carbon emissions and could be available in as little as three years.

15 April 46 Views

Court Rejects Industry Bid to Halt Greenhouse Gas Regulations

The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday denied an attempt by industry groups and the state of Texas to halt implementation of greenhouse gas regulations developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the federal Clean Air Act.

11 December 35 Views

Artificial Trees Capture Both Sun and Wind Energy

Using cutting edge materials and proven technology to harvest energy from the sun and wind, SolarBotanic is planning to produce artificial trees that look like real plants, but produce electricity when the wind blows and sun shines.

27 November 32 Views

Amazon Forest More Resilient to Climate Change Than Feared

The Amazon rainforest is less vulnerable to die off because of global warming than widely believed because the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide also acts as an airborne fertilizer, a study showed on Wednesday.

08 February 32 Views

Iceland's Volcanoes May Power UK

The volcanoes of Iceland could soon be pumping low-carbon electricity into the UK under government-backed plans for thousands of miles of cables across the ocean floor, taking advantage of abundant geothermal energy there.

17 April 30 Views

First US Offshore Wind Farm Approval Ignites Green Jobs Future

Construction and operation plans have been approved for America's first offshore wind farm, which could create up to 1000 jobs at the 130-turbine Cape Wind project off the Massachusetts coast beginning in a few months.

20 April 32 Views

Google Invests Another $100M in Green Energy - This Time a Wind Farm

Google's investments in clean power are now rivaling that of stand alone clean energy investors. Monday morning, the search engine giant said it has invested $100 million in the world's largest wind farm, under construction in Oregon -- marking a total of $350 million invested in clean power.

19 April 28 Views