Nigeria must own up to the blood shed for oil
Twenty years since the ‘judicial killing’ of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni nine activists, the government refuses to recognise the price paid by Niger Delta residents The Nigerian government is struggling to confront its past abuses, and nowhere is this clearer than in the case of the Ogoni nine, the environmental activists from the Niger […]
Direct Action destined to fail even with low Paris pledge, Climate Institute says
Coalition’s emissions reduction scheme will not come close to meeting 2030 target and new climate policies are needed, chief executive John Connor says The Turnbull government’s “Direct Action” policy cannot meet even the “inadequate” emission reductions it will pledge at the UN climate meeting in Paris and in fact will allow Australia’s greenhouse pollution to […]
Running for climate change: 'I was very much on the edge physically and mentally'
Emma Howard takes to the road with Erlend Møster Knudsen, one half of Pole to Paris, a campaign and journey by two scientists from the two polar regions of the world to crucial UN climate talks in Paris The journey to next month’s crunch UN summit on climate change has been long for many, but […]
Photographers – don’t pap our wild animals, they need some privacy too | Hugh Warwick
Deer in a London park are failing to mate because of intrusive snappers. With wildlife already under threat, photographers need to focus on acting ethically Every year the Natural History Museum puts on an exhibition of the most wonderful wildlife photographs. Every year I enter a fantasy universe in which I retreat to a hide […]
Google Open Sources Artificial Intelligence Engine
It has been announced that Google has made its machine learning system, known as TensorFlow, freely available and open source. The company has said that it hopes the decision will help to accelerate the developing field of machine learning. Machine learning is apparent in a number of the company’s products, including the Google Photos app, […]
Robots, Recycling and Deep Learning
One of the biggest challenges associated with creating effective material flows, where products and components are kept at their highest value for as long as possible cycling through the economy, is the separating out of different streams. Part of the solution is to make the flows effective to the point where a large mixture of […]
Discovery of dead crocodile leads to calls for gillnets to be banned – video
A boat tour operator discovers the body of a crocodile which drowned while stuck in a gillnet in the Kimberley river in the Northern Territory. Brad Priest-Tasker, who operates the Kimberley Quest boat, narrates his discovery on camera and calls for more controls on where gillnets – which are long net panels, similar to a […]
Crocodile found drowned in Kimberley river prompts calls for ban on gillnets
A Northern Territory tour boat operator says lack of supervision and reporting in remote Kimberley coastline increases risks of large marine species drowning A tourist boat operator has called for gillnet fishing to be banned in remote areas of the Kimberley region of Western Australia after a group of tourists found a saltwater crocodile which […]
Rightwingers push 'moral' coal only after they doomed a truly moral alternative | John Quiggin
Even discounting climate change, coal is less cost-effective for the developing world. A well-financed leap to renewables is the way forward Around the developed world, the age of coal is drawing to a close. Coal-fired power plants are closing down just about everywhere. They are being replaced by renewables and gas-fired plants, or rendered unnecessary […]
¿Qué es un Chief Resilience Officer, y por qué están todos en la Ciudad de México?
Esta semana la reunión de 100 Resilient Cities en la capital mexicana ofrece una oportunidad para que expertos de todo el mundo desarrollen las herramientas necesarias para hacer sus ciudades más fuertes Read this article in English Dependiendo del criterio que se utilice para contabilizarlas, existen alrededor de 10,000 ciudades en el mundo que albergan […]