NEWS AND COMMENT: Greenpeace staged a dramatic protest in support of taking steps to curb global warming when they unfurled a massive banner on the Intercontinental London hotel hosting a meeting of high-profile oil executives. It’s is the annual Energy Intelligence Forum, with speakers including …
There was a time, about a hundred years ago, when the Antarctic fur seal barely escaped extinction because they were hunted for their pelts in their millions. Numbers rebounded as the hunting of fur seals declined but now, thanks to climate change, they are threatened …
NEWS AND COMMENT: We would all have thought that Greta Thunberg, the world’s most high-profile climate change activist, would support wind farms. They are unsightly but they are very environmentally friendly. They use nature to create energy although they kill birds and can disturb ground-living …
Shipping powered by diesel engines pollute the environment. This includes air pollution, water pollution and acoustic and oil pollution. It is said that ships are responsible for more than 18% of nitrogen oxides pollution and 3% of greenhouse gas emissions. It is said that this …
NEWS AND COMMENT-LAKE TEFE, AMAZON RIVER, BRAZIL: It has been put down to global warming as the primary reason for the death of 120 river dolphins in the Amazon River together with thousands of fish of other species. The scientists are still working on the …
A lot of people think that humankind will likely be extinct well before the end of the next 250 million years. However, a new scientific research project published in the journal Nature Geoscience ran computer simulations to predict future climatic conditions and the positions of …
This is a much better alternative to the extended ULEZ scheme introduced by the Mayor of London, Khan, and the idea comes from Nigel Farage. He has come up with a brilliantly simple idea which I’m surprised hasn’t been put forward before. The purpose of …
Emperor penguins need ice on which to live. Emperor penguin colonies live on ice. They lay their eggs on ice and feed their chicks on ice. Scientists tell us that this vital element of the emperor penguin’s habitat is disappearing from parts of Antarctica which …
Bafta’s sustainability arm called ‘Albert’ found that the average big-budget film produced 2,840 tons of carbon dioxide (2020). Their report is being cited by film stars who want to see a change in the demands made by divas as they contribute to global warming. I’m …
