Quaffing the future
Enjoy a nice glass of Australian Chardonnay? Global warming could change the way you drink.
Archive for June 13th, 2008
Africa: Continent Losing Massive Forest Cover
A recently launched report by UNEP shows Africa is losing four million hectares of forest cover every year and brings vividly to light the impact of development policies, population growth, climate change and conflicts on the environment.
Gordon Ramsay criticised for eating endangered eels
Celebrity TV chef Gordon Ramsay has angered conservationists by trapping and cooking endangered eels.
Growing Your Company While Reducing Emissions
BT's new carbon reduction model aims to allow firms to adapt emission targets as they grow while still retaining their green credibility.
Pluto gets new classification as ‘Plutoid’
Pluto has been stripped of its status as a planet and will now be classified as a “plutoid” – a new category of celestial body
Leave it in the ground!
Thirty climate campaigners today stopped a coal train on its way to Drax power station in Yorkshire, Britain’s single largest source of CO2 emissions. Dressed in white overalls and canary outfits, they used safety signals to stop the train at a bridge on a branch line used exclusively by the power station, before jumping aboard [...]
China struggling to catch its breath
China’s reliance on burning coal is fuelling an economic boom, but the enormous amounts of pollution are suffocating its people
US urged to boost its geothermal power capacity
Mining the heat stored in deep rocks could meet a growing portion of US electricity demand and replace ageing nuclear and coal plants, says a new report
Summer sun can provide winter heat
Relying on solar heating might sound like a bad idea if you live in a country that sees little winter sun – but not in Sweden
What if? Electric motors pre-dated steam engines
The village church, the village green – the village electricity mill? The industrial revolution never looked so clean and quiet