Seriously. This is the best environment infographic ever. Politicians and oil companies might waste time debating whether or not weâve reached peak oil. What they ignore is that we run out completely in under 40 yearsâ time, by which time a third of the planetâs biodiversity will be lost. In the meantime, tantalum, that great
However one thing seems to be clear: some 40 to 70 nuclear engineers have not been evacuated from the power plant, choosing instead to stay behind in potentially fatal conditions in an attempt to prevent a nuclear meltdown which could plausibly harm thousands.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklwzRihv6Y BBC had created a pretty great feature recently, Science Under Attack. âNobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded,â the YouTube page for the first video above says. Sir Paul Nurse, head of the Royal Society, a
Have you ever felt like US and British media are doing an extremely poor job of covering climate change. You know we have. A former BBC correspondent recently gave us a good insiderâs perspective on why this is the case, as well as letting us know that it isnât expected to get much better. Mark
The BBC posted a new report stating that elephants in captivity do not live as long as their free-roaming counterparts. Also, they are noticeably more stressed and unhealthy by comparison. Seems logical. What struck me most from this article is how we can replace the word âelephantsâ with âhumansâ and the same rings true.
