Here are 6 big ideas to help the environment
Sometimes the news about our environment can feel a little monotonous. We read the same old headlines about how important the environment is, how the…
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World Environment Day 2018: beat the plastic pollution
As celebrations gear up for World Environment Day on 5 June, delegates and policymakers connect with India’s business sector and innovators to explore how to…
Geothermal mega-drills and floating reactors: the future of island power
Over 10% of the world’s population live on islands. Islands showcase amazing biodiversity, and provide unique economic value as hubs of international trade. Some of…
Dumb & Dumber: The global assault on environmental laws
Without environmental laws we’d all be breathing polluted air, drinking foul water, and living in a perpetual silent spring — where nature and wildlife had…
Is Trump Launching a New World Order?
The Petro-Powers vs. the Greens That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the…
Waterloo study says insurance industry dangerously unprepared for extreme weather
As historic flooding caused by climate change devastates communities in New Brunswick and British Columbia, new research from the University of Waterloo reveals the insurance…
Meet Europe’s two ‘most exciting’ CO2 capture and storage projects
A plan to pipe CO2 emissions from industries around the Port of Rotterdam and a hydrogen transport hub in the north of England have been…
Engineers compete to detect methane leaks, a powerful climate pollutant
In their labs at the University of Colorado, research scientists Dirk Richter and Petter Weibring were busy building lasers to detect gasses when Richter heard…
Corridor of Power
For over a decade Pakistan’s growing economy has been held back by a chronic shortage of electricity; supply has often fallen short by over 20%…
The odd triangle
It used to be missiles; now it’s oil, but Cuba is still in crisis. Back in ’62 the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis triggered a 13-day…
Humberstone and Santa Laura
Two former saltpeter refineries located in northern Chile, in the Atacama Desert. Founded in 1872, the Saltpeter works and the towns constructed around them became obsolete fifty years later, after two…
Radon smoke is rising
Warning: “Radon is all around us. You are now entering a radioactive area.”. It could be the sign at your front door. Would you stay…
The web of life and climate change dualism
Imagine an intricate and infinite web. This web represents the interrelationship among all life forms both with each other as well as the rest of…