Video: Floating cities – fantasy or the future?
Source: BBC By George Wright Floating cities have long seemed like a utopian pipedream based on little more than fantasy. But this week the concept appeared to take a step […]
Source: BBC By George Wright Floating cities have long seemed like a utopian pipedream based on little more than fantasy. But this week the concept appeared to take a step […]
Source: The New Yorker By Vinson Cunningham For centuries, we’ve given lavish attention to the specifics of punishment, and left Heaven woefully under-sketched. When I was a kid of ten […]
Source: BBC News BY Lucy Rodgers Concrete is the most widely used man-made material in existence. It is second only to water as the most-consumed resource on the planet. But, […]
“If we don’t take action the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon … time is running out,” Sir David […]
Hello. I’d like to introduce you to a word you may never have heard before, but you ought to know:drawdown. Drawdown is a new way of thinking about and acting on global warming. It’s […]
Source: BBC News By Dominic Lutyens Cutting-edge, sustainable architecture around the world is the subject of new book Green Architecture by Philip Jodidio. Experimental perhaps, but many green buildings today tap into […]
Source: BBC News By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionThe new study says the oceans have absorbed far more heat than previously thought The world has seriously […]
Sarah Knapton © PA The Prince of Wales attending a meeting of key plastics stakeholders and business leaders to discuss the role of plastics in the economy and […]
Source: BBC News By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES As well as rapidly reducing the carbon dioxide that we humans are pumping into the atmosphere in huge […]
Source: Reuters By Neha Dasgupta NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the use of “green” firecrackers for Diwali next month to try to curb pollution, but […]
Source: The Washington Post By Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis The world stands on the brink of failure when it comes to holding global warming to moderate levels, and nations will need […]
Source: Independent By Sirena Bergman @SirenaBergman Recycling is an easy cop-out for governments and large corporations, but the truth is that we have to take very different action if we […]
Source: The Guardain BY Kate Lamb in Jakarta Nation’s two largest Islamic organisations will call on network of 100 million followers to reduce plastic waste and reuse bags Tourists and local residents […]
Source: The Washington Post By Swati Gupta More than 350 Hindu priests have gathered in India this week for a multiday religious ceremony to pray that the gods deliver them […]
Source: Time By LAIGNEE BARRON 12:31 AM EDT Drinking from a plastic water bottle likely means ingesting microplastic particles, a new study claims, prompting fresh concerns — and calls for scientific […]
Source: BBC News By Jonathan Amos US research has found that chemicals in everyday household products are now a key contributor to city air pollution, rivalling some vehicle emissions. The […]
Source: BBC News India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu is poised to become a global leader in wind power, according to a new report. But first the state must overcome […]
Source: Indy Star “I don’t consider myself an environmentalist.” That is perhaps an odd statement coming from someone who is an unabashed — you could say devout — leader of […]
Source: CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN)More than 16,000 scientists from 184 countries have published a second warning to humanity advising that we need to change our wicked ways to help […]
Source: BBC News By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionEmissions from human activities have levelled off but concentrations in the atmosphere continue to grow Concentrations of CO2 in […]