Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation … Biofuel plantations on tropical forestlands are bad for the climate and biodiversityRead more
Posted inAfrica / Biofuel / Politics
Biofuel and White man’s burden
Western companies are pushing to acquire vast stretches of African land to meet the world’s biofuel needs. Local farmers and governments are being showered with … Biofuel and White man’s burdenRead more
Posted inPolitics
Manufactured Famine
In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts out of India in the 1870s. The … Manufactured FamineRead more
Posted inArctic / Pollution
Arctic Pollution Record for Birds
Eggs of the ivory gull, which has a population of about 14,000 from Siberia to Canada, were found to have the highest known concentrations of … Arctic Pollution Record for BirdsRead more
Posted inArctic / Global Warming
Major ice-shelf loss for Canada
The ice shelves in Canada’s High Arctic have lost a colossal area this year, scientists report. The floating tongues of ice attached to Ellesmere Island, … Major ice-shelf loss for CanadaRead more
Posted inHydroelectric
Piezoelectric Hydropower
For centuries humans have dammed rivers and streams to grind grain and later, generate electricity. Now a new, more subtle form of freshwater power is … Piezoelectric HydropowerRead more
Posted inEnergy / Lighting
Operation Light Bulb
Panama plans to hand out 6 million energy-saving light bulbs, nearly two per citizen, to ease soaring demand for electricity and prevent future blackouts, President … Operation Light BulbRead more
Posted inBiofuel
India’s first sugar cane biorefinery
The biorefinery will be equipped to produce ethanol from bagasse, the fibre left over after the juice has been squeezed out of sugar cane, though … India’s first sugar cane biorefineryRead more
Posted inGlobal Warming
Warmest decade in last 1300 years
Surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer over the last 10 years than any time during the last 1300 years, according to researchers at … Warmest decade in last 1300 yearsRead more
Posted inSocial / USA Empire
Islamophobia
In the last few weeks, 28 million copies of a DVD titled Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West have been distributed as an advertising … IslamophobiaRead more