Scientists in Switzerland, a country that imports 80% of its energy, have come up with a cohesive strategy to tackle today’s persistent energy squandering — the “2,000 Watt Society”. A watt is a unit ...

What is the hottest green energy? Coming from deep within the earth’s core, geothermal power has been used for cooking, bathing and keeping warm since Roman times. Today, it is a promising clean ...

It’s long been known which countries emit the most carbon dioxide, and thus contribute the most to climate change. But what about the carbon emissions of individual people in those countries? On ...

The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to ...

When the signs of economic crisis began to show in 2007–08, many citizens and politicians around the world felt that the failures of the banks, regulators, and other players in the finance industry ...

Coastal ecosystems are severely stressed in many parts of the world as a result of overpopulation, intense coastal development, urbanization, spiraling resource use, pollution, and the spread of ...

Every spring and summer huge masses of Arctic ice are detaching and falling into the sea, as shown on countless news reports worldwide. The melting, scientists tell us, is a result of human-made ...

When Donald Campbell broke the land speed record on 17 July 1964, travelling 649 kilometres per hour across a parched desert landscape, he likely climbed out of the specially designed Bluebird-Proteus ...

Renewable energy is helping to power increasing numbers of the world’s road vehicles. Now several European countries are exploring the potential for using renewables to fuel their trains. In the ...

If global carbon emissions continue to rise at their current rate, humanity will eventually be left with no other option than a costly, world war-like mobilisation, scientists warned this week. “It’s ...

The late geographer Bernard Nietschmann once observed that “more indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns”. Whether or not you agree that more can be taken back with maps, it is hard ...

The steady urbanization of Australia’s population is having an unexpectedly negative impact upon native wildlife left behind in wilderness areas, a leading conservationist has warned. Dr. Barry Traill ...