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The ‘Microplastic’ Threat to Our Foodchain
Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain,...
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Can Economy Bear What Oil Prices Have in Store?
Stop wrangling over global warming and instead reduce fossil-fuel use for the sake of the global economy. That’s the...
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George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War
George Soros believes it’s time to stave off disaster. As he sees it, the world faces one of the...
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Barley Adapts to Climate Change
The upsurge in droughts is one of the main consequences of climate change, and affects crops in particular. However,...
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Global Warming Would Harm Some Areas, Help Others
“Global warming” and “climate change” succinctly describe a complicated phenomenon, and in just a few decades they have become...
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‘Peak’ Timber Concerns in Tropics
Current tropical timber practices are not sustainable and nations should consider the implications of ‘peak timber’, a study has...
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Magnetic Soap Could Sop Up Oil Spills
Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a soap, composed of iron rich salts dissolved in water, that...
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Fracking Would Emit Large Quantities of Greenhouse Gases
Add methane emissions to the growing list of environmental risks posed by fracking. Opposition to the hydraulic fracturing of...
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Seaweed May Be Our Energy Future
Scientists in a cluttered Berkeley laboratory are working a bit of biochemical wizardry to transform ordinary seaweed into biofuels...
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Saul Griffith’s TED Talk on Wind Power
In this brief TED talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on:...
