After more than two years and many posts, the environment blog is moving home. We’re merging with Short Sharp Science, a blog for everything New Scientist covers in the world of science, technology and ideas.
You can view that new, super-blog here, and see only the environment posts at this link.
For those of you viewing in [...]
After more than two years and many posts, the environment blog is moving home. We’re merging with Short Sharp Science, a blog for everything New Scientist covers in the world of science, technology and ideas.
You can view that new, super-blog here, and see only the environment posts at this link.
For those of you viewing in [...]
Every hurricane is different, and a key difference between this year’s Ike and Katrina three years ago was in the area it hit. With large areas below sea level and weak levees, New Orleans was far more vulnerable to damage from Katrina than Houston and Galveston were to Ike.
Galveston is among the US coastal cities [...]
Someone, please, clarify something for me: what happens when a president and his vice-president “agree to disagree”?
At least the George W Bush administration was consistent within itself. But with the new Republican ticket, we are faced with the prospect of a US president who is against drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge paired to [...]
Continue reading about Palin and McCain: At odds over the environment
Someone, please, clarify something for me: what happens when a president and his vice-president “agree to disagree”?
At least the George W Bush administration was consistent within itself. But with the new Republican ticket, we are faced with the prospect of a US president who is against drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge paired to [...]
Continue reading about Palin and McCain: At odds on the environment
I get irritated with a “Satnav Sally” voice in the car constantly giving me directions - and anyway consider satnav an insult to my map reading skills. But hang on. “Location and timing technologies” - a fancy name for satnav and clocks - apparently could help limit carbon emissions.
The UK government has brought together hundreds [...]
I get irritated with a “Satnav Sally” voice in the car constantly giving me directions - and anyway consider satnav an insult to my map reading skills. But hang on. “Location and timing technologies” - a fancy name for satnav and clocks - apparently could help limit carbon emissions.
The UK government has brought together hundreds [...]
Continue reading about How GPS and Satnav Sally can save CO2
Members of the US Olympic team came under fire earlier this week for embarrassing their Chinese hosts… by parading through Beijing airport with anti-smog masks covering their faces from ear to ear.
But with the Games’ Opening Ceremonies less than a day away, the question remains whether such precautions are a good idea, or worthy of [...]
India may be home to the Tata Nano, the infamous micro car which has had environmentalists in a tizz, but there’s also some incontestably good green news coming out of the country. According to the Business Standard, an Indian broadsheet, the Clinton Foundation is thinking of funding what would be the world’s largest solar farm [...]
What’s the best way to fix climate change, to stamp out the emissions that are warming our planet? I don’t mean what technology. That’s actually coming along quite nicely. I mean what are the international legal and financial levers that can pulled to get the technology, on the scale needed, from the test [...]
Continue reading about Fred’s Footprint: The best solution to climate change
