Britannia Beach project may signal renewed boom in Sea to Sky region … at least two years away from seeing any homes built, it follows several other major development projects from Porteau Cove to Squamish that are either on hold or expected to start moving forward again as the effects of the recession slowly recede. [...]

Sun's impact on Earth includes uncertainty When a front page story in The Maui News on March 8 warned of potential disruption in Earth's magnetic field from a major solar storm, it focused on effects in North America. There was nothing about Hawaii, beyond a suggestion that a solar blast could … Read more on [...]

Solar storm's effects measured "The long term hope of people like us around the world is to have stuff that's looking at these effects from the sun and can see them far enough out in space that we could have a network that would alert people as to this thing is coming," Poirier said … [...]

Solar Storm 'Sounds' Created With Sonification Technology (VIDEO) Solar wind is made up of waves of hot plasma and charged particles that are continuously emitted from the sun. The details of that earlier solar wind study were described in the December 2011 edition of the Astrophysical Journal. Read more on Huffington Post

Mauritius Sun Resorts pretax profit down 9.4 pct in 2011 Tourism, which typically generates about 10 percent of the gross domestic product of Mauritius's $ 11 billion economy, is being hit by sagging economies in its key European markets, which are battling the effects of the euro zone debt crisis. Read more on Reuters