Tag: Climate change
Top 5 scientific investigations in need of attention
Last week, a dear friend of mine asked me: If you had large amounts of money to spend on research, what kind of investigation...
Europe Step Closer to Ultimate Clean Energy Source that Imitates Stars
"It is not often that a scientist gets the chance to work on a project that will change the world."Mike Forrest
If we could dive...
Greenland ice sheet loss close to a tipping point due to climate change
Tobblie Effowe, a Togo resident, has seen his house consumed by the sea. He lived close to a once touristic beach that lost its...
Top News: Ban on Gene-Editing, Melting Arctic and Opportunity’s Last Photos
Scientists ask for a global ban on gene-editing for clinical uses, the UN reveals the dimension of the Arctic’s catastrophe and NASA shows the last photos taken by the Opportunity rover; these were our favourite stories from this week.
America can afford a Green New Deal – here’s how
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey are calling for a “Green New Deal” that would involve massive government spending to shift the...
Can Honeybees Teach Us How to Live?
“Bees know best,” beekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina tend to say. Keen observers of hives, Bosnian beekeepers take bees as knowledgeable beings. The bees, they say,...
The Swiftness of Glaciers: Language in a Time of Climate Change
Language bends and buckles under pressure of climate change. Take the adjective ‘glacial’. I recently came across an old draft of my Ph.D. dissertation...