Circulate on Fridays: Blockchain growing, IoT supporting renewables and more…
Every Friday, Circulate rounds up a collection of interesting circular economy related stories and articles. In this edition, we’re recommending articles on biomimicry, the impact of the Internet of Things on renewable energy and the growing applications of Bitcoin’s blockchain technology. Curt McNamara describes the inseparable link between biomimicry design and taking a systems lens […]
Affairs of the heart for darting dragonflies
Heath Pond, Petersfield, Hampshire They flew rapidly round each other in a duel slewing left and right in ever tightening circles A dragonfly skimmed towards us, the whir of its wings like the sound of a fingernail being run back and forth across the teeth of a plastic comb. It seemed to be displaying accompanying […]
Peter Dutton jokes with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels in Pacific nations
Immigration minister shares awkward open mic moment with PM after Pacific islands fail to convince Australia to aim for a global warming target of 1.5 degrees The immigration minister, Peter Dutton, has shared an awkward open mic moment with the prime minister, Tony Abbott, where he appears to joke about rising sea levels in the […]
Peter Dutton overheard joking with Tony Abbott about rising sea levels – video
Australia’s immigration minister, Peter Dutton, shares a joke with the prime minister, Tony Abbott, about rising sea levels on Pacific islands. They were discussing the recent Pacific Islands Forum in Papua New Guinea before a community roundtable on the resettlement of Syrian refugees. Social services minister, Scott Morrison, points out they may be being picked […]
Southern Ocean sucks up 1.2bn tonnes of carbon in 2011 and buries it deep
The enormous uptake of greenhouse gases is roughly equivalent to the European Union’s annual carbon output The Southern Ocean has started to absorb more greenhouse gases after a period when the vast ocean’s uptake had slumped by about a half, a study has found. The ocean’s role as a crucial carbon “sink” appeared to be […]
Tories set to block Navitus Bay windfarm off Jurassic Coast
Energy minister Lord Bourne expected to bow to lobbying by local Tory MPs and veto plan for 121 turbines 10 miles off Dorset coast The government is expected to turn down an application for a £3.5bn windfarm off the south coast of England in what would be another major setback to green energy under the […]
Poor diet 'biggest contributor to early deaths across the world'
High blood pressure linked to bad diet contributed to most deaths, while smoking and air pollution were also high-ranking risk factors, study finds Poor diet has emerged as the biggest contributor to early death around the world, according to new analysis from the leading authorities on the global disease, with red meat and sugar-sweetened beverages […]
El Niño expected to hit US hard, but not enough to ease California drought
Climate officials warn winter’s weather pattern likely to be one of the strongest as effects are likely to be felt from December to March Climate officials are warning that this winter’s El Niño weather pattern is likely to be one of the strongest on record, bringing huge storms and a cold, wet winter for many […]
How to Change the World review – the psychedelic birth of Greenpeace
An appealing account of the audacious – and charming – environmental activists who began by challenging a nuclear test off Alaska “I think a few people were a bit on the psychedelic side,” says an interviewee recalling drugs dropped on a whaling island in this doc about how a bunch of hippies, yippies and environmentalists […]
Shell leaves climate project it helped set up amid Arctic drilling row
Campaign against Shell’s drilling off coast of Alaska leads to company’s exit from Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leader Group Shell has been forced to leave a Prince of Wales climate change project which it helped found after a row over the oil company’s controversial drilling programme in the Arctic. The departure from the Prince of […]