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Remember when Kia first hit the market and other car manufacturers were laughing at them? Well, they haven’t been laughing in quite some time as Kia continues to put out attractive looking vehicles for far less money than anyone else. They have now unleashed their latest entry into the hybrid market at the new [...]
Good Samaritans are becoming an endangered species, warns Jemima Lewis
Households are being asked to opt out of receiving their annual phone book to stop thousands of tonnes of paper being dumped in landfill every year.
Hungry fish took on the role of barbers in this amazingly intimate picture of a manatee having a “haircut”.
Months before the Copenhagen conference on climate change, the African Union (AU) decided that the continent should participate in a more united, coherent manner than it often does at such international gatherings, by designating Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as the lead negotiator for the continent.
UPDATE: Thursday – Day 3
The third and final day in the high court turned out to be the best one so far.
The government’s barristers continued to try to defend the statistics that the Department for Transport had used to support the case for a third runway, and it turned out to be a bit [...]
Why reinvent the wheel for harvesting the sun’s power when there’s a masterclass going on under our noses?
Environmentalists are furious about the Venezuelan president’s plans for a giant oil pipeline to unite the continent
How do you keep an energy-hungry developing country from turning into a carbon-spewing monster? New Scientist went to find out
This time we’re making arguments in court, rather than on top of a plane.
Just over a year ago, at the start of 2009, transport secretary Geoff Hoon gave the government’s approval for a third runway at Heathrow airport. It would be accompanied, he said, by "the toughest climate change regime for aviation of any country [...]