I have been pretty interested lately in what Nanosolar is doing, so this is a timely update from The Guardian (which as I have mentioned before promotes this blog on the front page of their…
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window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Financial Times: After seven years in one of the most high-pressure jobs in government, Sir David King will on Monday hand over his role as chief scientist to John Beddington, a population biologist at Imperial College London. The chief scientist can adopt a higher public profile than most civil servants […]

Christian Science Monitor: 2007 was the year that global warming became a defining issue in world politics. The science behind it has become firmer than ever. People around the world tell pollsters they judge climate change to be a very serious – sometimes immediate – challenge, and a strong majority say they are ready to […]

Australian: FOR more than 150 years, a debate has raged over the origins of modern humans. The main body of scientific thought says modern humans migrated from Africa and then overwhelmed their more primitive European counterparts, the heavy-browed Neanderthals, or inter-bred with them. But growing credence is being given to the theory […]

Inter Press Service: Over the past year, honey bees have been dying across North America in unprecedented numbers and, until this month, no one seemed to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt what the cause may have been. What has been dubbed "colony collapse disorder" can work through a honey bee colony […]

Economic Times: India is an important player in climate change arena. First, because it will and is already feeling the negative effects of an instable climate and second because its share in the fight against global warming will be of increasing importance in the international negotiations that just concluded another important round in Bali, Indonesia. […]

Wall Street Journal: For years China has been a magnet for the chemicals industry, attracting European and American companies with its cheap production costs and growing market. Now China has another attraction for the energy-intense chemical industry: vast supplies of coal that can replace oil and natural gas as raw materials for chemical production. […]

Toronto Star: The House of God is shrinking. So named by the traditional Maasai people who live in its shadows, Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro is undergoing a slow but steady transformation – one that threatens everyone around it. The majestic glaciers that cap Africa’s tallest mountain are melting, victims of a warming Earth. […]

Reuters: Torrential downpours overnight sparked fears of further landslides on Saturday in Indonesia’s Java island, where rescuers were still struggling to recover bodies of recent landslide victims, officials said. Nearly 100 people were killed or missing after landslides buried houses under thick mud across the Central Java province this week, while thousands were […]

Guardian: As we look back on the past year and look forward to the next, there are clearly huge challenges for our economy. The housing market, consumer spending and economic growth look poised on the edge of a pretty steep drop, and there is a growing chance of a recession. But Gordon Brown - […]

Reuters: Beijing is aiming for more ‘good air days’ in 2008 as it prepares to host the Olympics in August, a senior official said on Friday, with the city’s notorious pollution a major concern for athletes and organisers. Beijing recorded 244 "blue sky days" by Dec. 28 this year, a day short of […]

Orlando Sentinel: Brought to life by two of the driest years in more than a century, Florida’s drought now rivals the worst in state history, threatening water supplies, seafood production, boater navigation and forests. It could get a lot worse. Don’t look for much rain soon if the global-climate bully called La Niña keeps […]

Jakarta Post: The government said demand for clean water, particularly in Java, Bali and East Nusa Tenggara far exceeds supply, forcing people to `over-exploit’ groundwater. Demand will continue to increase in line with population growth, at a time when potable water supplies are drying up due to unpredictable changes in the weather. […]

Reuters: Indonesian relief and rescue workers used a helicopter and rubber boats on Monday to deliver aid and rescue people marooned on Java island after massive flooding triggered by days of torrential rain. Nearly 100 people have died and about 60,000 left homeless after the floods and a series of landslides buried houses in […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;CNN: Humans can now officially be called an urban species. More than half of the global population now live in cities and the United Nations says that by 2030, 60 percent of us will live in them. People in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong, regarded as one […]