Coral violently spews out algae in response to heat stress – video
For the first time, researchers from the Queensland University of Technology studying bleaching have captured footage of coral from the Great Barrier Reef spewing out the algae that lives within it in response to heat stress. Using a microscope and digital camera to record time-lapse videos, the researchers demonstrate precisely how coral reacts to rising […]
Grubbly Farms: Bugs are a key part of the future of food
Insects are going to be a significant part of the future of food. There are an increasing number of examples of the potential of insects, particularly in terms of its utilisation in animal feed. In a warehouse in Atlanta, Grubbly Farms are aiming to take it to the next level building an automated system to […]
Hurricane Matthew kills 22 in US as flooding endangers North Carolina
The storm left behind a water-logged landscape where flooding was expected to persist for the rest of the week and at least three rivers could reach record levels With floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew on the rise, at least one North Carolina city appeared near chaos Monday, its police station shuttered and sporadic gunfire in the […]
Shailene Woodley arrested while protesting North Dakota oil pipeline
Actor was arrested along with 26 others demonstrating against construction of a pipeline to transport fracked crude oil near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation Actor Shailene Woodley, star of The Fault In Our Stars and the Divergent series, has been arrested along with 26 other people at the Standing Rock oil pipeline protest in North […]
Fracking is a form of climate-change denial | Josh Fox
Local communities are showing the courage to fight fossil fuel madness. We can all help them prevail Here’s one thing we don’t often want to admit: it is too late to stop many of the harshest and most destructive aspects of climate change from materialising. We’re out of time. Superstorms, droughts, floods, disappearing islands, coastlines […]
Science Museum condemned for oil company sponsorship
Caroline Lucas and dozens of campaigners and scientists call on museum to drop Statoil backing of children’s gallery More than 50 prominent scientists, campaigners and politicians have signed a letter calling on the Science Museum to drop its oil sponsorship. Despite choosing not to renew its previous sponsorship deal with Shell following criticism and campaigning, […]
Science Museum should drop Statoil sponsorship of children’s gallery | Letters
On Tuesday, the Science Museum will launch its new interactive gallery for children – Wonderlab: The Statoil Gallery. Despite securing sponsorship from an oil and gas company that is recklessly planning to drill seven new wells in the fragile Arctic, the London museum has also introduced an entry charge, restricting access to those visitors able to […]
Theresa May's local council set to spend £50,000 to fight Heathrow runway
Windsor and Maidenhead council looks to increase budget for fighting expected government go-ahead for third runway Theresa May’s local authority is prepared to spend £50,000 on a judicial review if her government approves the expansion of Heathrow next week, documents released on Monday reveal. The papers underline the scale of resistance that the prime minister […]
Bill Mollison obituary
Ecologist and one of the co-creators of permaculture Bill Mollison, who has died aged 88, was one of the co-creators of permaculture, an agricultural system that works with, rather than against, nature, on the basis that the natural world holds the key to stable and productive systems. Having developed the concept, he then travelled from […]
Global summit to strike deal on phase-out of HFCs
Meeting in Rwanda seeks amendment to Montreal protocol to eliminate manufacture of the chemicals used in fridges, air conditioners and inhalers Governments will address the law of unintended consequences when they meet this week to revise a global treaty and try to eliminate the use of a group of greenhouse gases used in fridges, inhalers […]