Major international oil companies are “buying off” governments, according to the world's most prominent climate...
Published 20 May, 2013 08:11am
THE forest elephants of Africa have lost almost two-thirds of their number in the past decade due to poaching for ivory, a landmark new study revealed on Tuesday.
Published 07 Mar, 2013 12:00am
WIND power expanded by almost 20 per cent in 2012 around the world to reach a new peak of 282 gigawatts (GW) of total installed capacity. Of the 45GW of new wind turbines that arrived in 2012, China and the US led
Published 12 Feb, 2013 08:02pm
THE mystery of the expansion of sea ice around Antarctica, at the same time as global warming is melting swaths of Arctic sea ice, has been solved using data from US military satellites.
Published 13 Nov, 2012 12:00am
IN the cool, salty air of the Norwegian coast, a revolution in reverse is being attempted. Here, amid a mare’s nest of gleaming steel pipes and flaming yellow gas flares, engineers are aiming to put back into the ground what many nations have exerted all
Published 11 May, 2012 12:00am
THE volcanoes of Iceland could soon be pumping low-carbon electricity into the UK under government-backed plans for thousands of miles of high-voltage cables across the ocean floor.
Published 13 Apr, 2012 12:00am
RESEARCHERS have found the waxing and waning of the sun affects our planet’s temperature in exactly the opposite way...
Published 07 Oct, 2010 07:00pm
WHEN an army confronts a heavily defended enemy, it has two options a full-frontal attack or a siege. In the battle...
Published 20 Sep, 2008 12:00am
