Other Afghanistan sits on $1 trillion worth of mineral deposits. Is this a game changer? August 14, 2013 - Updated on April 28, 2023
Environmental Issues Hot temperatures and tempers: climate change heat wave linked to rise in violence August 6, 2013 - Updated on November 23, 2016
Environmental Issues Some 1,700 US cities under threat of going under-water by 2100 July 31, 2013 - Updated on November 23, 2016
Environment New study links high levels arsenic and other contaminants to hydraulic fracking sites July 30, 2013
Chemistry How we’re wasting all our precious helium. A call for recycling July 30, 2013 - Updated on May 3, 2018
Environmental Issues Chart shows we’re not growing enough food to feed the world of 2050 July 4, 2013
Environmental Issues Consumer taste for high-altitude coffee beans gives opportunity to small farmers – but also raises more problems? June 12, 2013
Environmental Issues Peak oil – reached. Peak water – reached. Next on the list? Peak soil June 3, 2013
Animals Chinese Meat Firm With Terrible Food Safety Record Buys The Largest Pork Producer In The U.S. June 3, 2013
World Problems Most of the world’s population faces water shortages within ‘two generations’ May 27, 2013
Environmental Issues Record level atmospheric CO2. Reaches 400 ppm for the first time in 3 million years May 14, 2013
Environmental Issues Synthetic biology and conservation: opposites or on the same side? [DEBATE] April 3, 2013
Animals World’s most endangered wild cat embryos frozen and stored in hope of restoration March 26, 2013
Animals Humans caused ancient Pacific bird extinction that killed 10% of world bird population March 26, 2013
Renewable Energy Petroleum expert: Our Current Oil Use is “Suicidal Within 1 Generation” – eye opening video March 13, 2013
Environment Global warming will open shipping routes directly through the North Pole by 2050 March 5, 2013
Environmental Issues Global warming will lead to less snow fall in the world February 25, 2013 - Updated on April 18, 2019
Environment ‘Golden Rice’ approved in the Philippines after 12 years of anti-GMO protests February 18, 2013
Environmental Issues In a Harvard speech, Al Gore explains we treat the sky as a ‘sewer’ February 11, 2013
Environment Sea urchin inspires carbon capture catalyst February 5, 2013 - Updated on January 31, 2024
Pollution Minor oil spills are underreported most of the time by oil companies January 29, 2013 - Updated on February 28, 2017
Environmental Issues Greenland ice core reveals it withstood warmer climate and warns of the future January 25, 2013
Environment Global warming brings earliest flower bloom ever recorded January 17, 2013 - Updated on February 18, 2015
Environmental Issues Exotic plant species drive native plants into extinction contrary to reports January 16, 2013
Environmental Issues Mississippi river might become unnavigable blocking vital shipping route January 15, 2013
World Problems Human role in climate change now virtually certain, IPCC report says December 17, 2012
