Science Weekly podcast: Our Evolutionary Agony Aunt, and aliens
Carole Jahme, the Guardian’s evolutionary agony aunt who writes our weekly ‘Ask Carole column, joins us i…
UK has to move beyond carbon cuts to stay competitive
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain needs to focus on more than just carbon dioxide emission cuts and manage its water, waste and food resources better to remain competitive, a report by the Aldersgate Group said on Monday. The group is a coalition of businesse…
Supermarket fridges as polluting as their plastic bags, study claims
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The switch to refrigerants that do not damage the ozone layer brought in a generation of chemicals with a greenhouse effect thousands of times stronger than CO2Greenhouse gases used in supermarket fridges and freezers pose as great a threat to [...]
Science Weekly Extra podcast: Robert Kennedy Jr takes on coal baron Don Blankenship
A debate took place recently at the University of Charleston in West Virginia on mountaintop mining. Stage left was Bobby Kennedy Jr, an environmental lawyer, son of the late attorney general and nephew of JFK. (He has a cond…
Global deal on climate change in 2010 ‘all but impossible’
• Global deal at next summit in Mexico impossible, says Prescott• ‘Disarray’ cited over UN organisation assessing pledgesA global deal to tackle climate change is all but impossible in 2010, leaving the scale and pace of action to slow global warming in coming decades uncertain, according to senior figures across the world involved in the [...]
Country diary: Lake District
Lake DistrictA friend told me his first impression of visiting Cockley Beck Farm recently was one of sheer desolation as he approached its lonely crossroads. “It was the kind of scene,” he said, “you might see on a television programme about penguins. Spindrift hissing across the ice. Bleak!”Spare a thought, then, for the family who [...]
Rajendra Pachauri fails to get British support over ‘unsubstantiated’ climate report claims
Chair of IPCC facing allegations that claims made in key reports did not have required standard of scientific reviewDamian Carrington Rajendra Pachauri, who has faced criticism as chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change following allegations of inaccurate statements in panel reports, suffered a fresh blow last night when he failed to get the [...]
Global warming: Undeniable evidence
The unwillingness of scientists at the University of East Anglia to release climate data to people who choose not to believe in climate change was a mistake. Science advances through openness, through the ability of others to replicate the same findings or demonstrate error in discovery and interpretation. Reluctance to disclose – revealed last week [...]
United Nations population data for every country in the world
The world’s population is growing at a startling rate. These figures show the number of people in each country on the globe• Get the dataHow many people live in each country in the world – and how is the world’s population growing? The best source on earth for the answer is the United Nations population [...]
The west owes Haiti a bailout. And it would be a hand-back, not a handout | Gary Younge
The Caribbean nation should be reimbursed for centuries of punitive treatment and brutality by the outside worldLast week started with a conference in Montreal, called by a group of governments and international agencies calling themselves Friends of Haiti, to discuss the long and short term needs of the recently devastated Caribbean nation. Even as corpses remained [...]